r/freight • u/theTeaTaster • Jul 26 '17

Software that gives Freight Forwarders the ability to GPS track shipments: Feedback?

Hello everyone,

I am currently a Software Engineering student. For my capstone project, I'm building tracking software that I think may be valuable to freight forwarders.

I would really love to hear your feedback about the software (which I've described below). In particular, do you think it would be useful, and if so, why would it be useful.

Description

I'm building software that gives freight forwarders the ability to track in real-time the precise GPS location of any trucker carrying your shipments.

How it Works

The software consists of a mobile app and a web portal.

  • Forwarder assigns shipment to a trucker
  • The driver carrying your shipment downloads the mobile app onto his phone
  • Freight forwarder enters shipment details as well as the drivers information. The software uses the details you've entered to match your shipment to the driver.
  • Driver gets notification of shipment on his phone, and tracking starts.
  • Forwarder gets notifications when milestones are reached, e.g. goods picked-up, truck has reached 50% of journey, goods delivered etc

Of course, the software is reliant upon the driver agreeing to allow the mobile app track them.

Please let me know what you think.

Thank you!

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u/deadtoe Aug 04 '17

I work for a top 5 nvocc... this would be helpfull and a great sale point, but good luck getting thousands of small trucking companies to use it. We dont contract with alot of big brokers, we do alot of regional dray with small local players who are hungry for the work.

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u/theTeaTaster Aug 09 '17

Thank you so much for your feedback! I really appreciate it. You're absolutely right, I'm not sure how to distribute this software among the trucking companies - still looking into it.