Highlights
- In the flatbed world, subtle differences can have major impacts on rates and availability.
- Shippers that work in a complex, highly detailed world prefer to use UROUTE’s TMS.
- Over 50% of the truckload freight in UROUTE is flatbed, well above the industry average.
Rates are high and capacity is tight in today’s logistics environment, these trends are amplified in logistics’ micro markets like open trailer flatbed trucking. These trends are driven by today’s current demand for building materials, raw material sourcing and a focus on revitalizing our infrastructure.
Many digital platforms exclusively cater to the easiest, most repeatable logistics moves like package, traditional LTL and dry van truckload. It is much easier to digitally interact in predictable environments, where changes are nonconsequential, and nuance does not swing rates wildly. In the flatbed world, subtle differences can have major impacts on rates and availability. That is why shippers that work in a complex, highly detailed world prefer to use UROUTE, which other TMS products shy away from, because they simply don’t understand it.
Header: What Makes UROUTE Better Suited for Flatbed Freight
- Simple user interface with customized views for desktop and mobile users on-the-road.
- Oversized/overweight shipment module.
- Load specific internal messaging and document/photo sharing.
- Select multiple equipment types for single loads.
- Over 50% of the truckload freight in UROUTE is flatbed, well above the industry average.
- Pick-up and delivery date ranges.
Simple User Interface
UROUTE’s ease-of-use and simplified interface allows truck drivers to access shipments on the road. Many flatbed trucking companies are fragmented and have smaller fleets where decision makers are not always sitting behind a desk. The ability to access their flatbed capacity in multiple, convenient formats is critical for flatbed trucking companies to make that connection with shippers.
Oversized/Overweight Shipment Module
UROUTE’s ability to actively communicate shipment dimensions, including all oversized freight, plus attaching documents including pictures, permits and weigh tickets to specialized loads makes communicating visual and organized. When communication is shared properly and done in an interactive environment, trucking companies show up with the correct equipment type to handle complex moves. This ensures that time sensitive freight shows up on-time and in sequence.
Active Shipment Internal Messaging
Often times, in open trailer situations, instructions change on the fly. UROUTE’s load specific internal messaging system allows for detailed communication between shipper and carrier throughout the load process. This dialogue is saved and threaded into each shipment which keeps track as changes occur and holds carrier and shipper accountable. These updates can be critical for important, complicated shipments where mistakes can have massive ripple effects on a project. Documenting trailer requirements, route requirements, pick up and receiving requirements along with all the other intricate details that accompany open trailer trucking.
An Abundance of Flatbed Freight
UROUTE has multiple existing shippers focused exclusively on flatbed freight that includes standard 48-foot flatbeds, but also specialized equipment, including double drops, goosenecks, step decks, curtain sides and a host of other trailer configurations. This network of pre-existing flatbed trailer capacity makes UROUTE very attractive for other shippers with a preponderance of flatbed freight that requires rate competitive capacity in today's tight environment.
If your company has an abundance of flatbed freight and needs to network with a reliable flatbed trucking capacity focused on open trailer shipments, UROUTE is the transportation management software system that is right for you. With over $100,000,000 in direct shipper flatbed freight, UROUTE continues to lead the way in flatbed freight management and procurement. UROUTE also leads the way in complex North American cross border shipments.
Demo UROUTE’s interactive TMS today and start more efficiently meeting your flatbed needs: https://calendly.com/uroute/uroute-demo?month=2021-06
