is the same. You can handle all of the accounting on one general ledger, which saves time and expense. It’s seamless and more efficient.
Our personnel can be more productive Our people are trained to dispatch both with our trucks and with outside carriers, so someone who works with a customer will handle their freight regardless of how the loads are assigned. Say that a building materials shipper sends us 50 load tenders, and we accept all of them. Some may go on company trucks while others are brokered out, but none of the loads needs to be passed off to different personnel. Keeping all the freight with one team allows our staff to be more productive. This ability of our people to handle both sides of the business means that we also need less office space, so our overhead stays down.
There are other efficiencies to be gained from using McLeod across all four companies. By running all four instances of McLeod on one server, we can provide
everyone with visibility into each other’s loads and trucks. In the planning screens, we set the filters to allow personnel at one company to see the available loads and trucks at the other companies. If you need a truck or you need a load, this is a good place to look. Say you’ve got some loads in Nebraska, but you don’t have any of your company trucks available. You can go into the planning screen, look in Nebraska, set the filter to show all four companies and see instantly if anyone else has a truck just where you need it.
Using a single server also makes it possible to use EDI internally to tender loads and communicate shipment status. Everyone appreciates the flexibility and the efficiency. Handling loads and finding trucks between companies is a snap.
Operating the brokerage side of the business within the same system as the asset side may not work for everyone. But doing so could make it easier for your staff to do a better job, which makes this approach worth a closer look.
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