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Floyd & Beasley Transfer Company, Inc. Licenses Additional Planning Solutions from Integrated to Accelerate Profits
03.23.2004 Sycamore, AL -
Floyd & Beasley Transfer Company, specializing in truckload carrier services across the United States, has licensed Netwise®, Netwise400® and Match Advice® from Integrated Decision Support Corporation (Integrated). The Netwise solutions are designed to identify customer lanes that are profitable and working well and to analyze the customer lanes that need improvement. Match Advice is a powerful planning tool that dramatically improves utilization via global optimization providing real-time candidates for load matching. Floyd & Beasley currently license Expert Fuel® and Out-of-Route/Estimated Time of Arrival Alert® from Integrated to minimize cost and control assets.

"We plan to utilize Netwise to improve the quality of freight and improve utilization while controlling assets and minimizing costs for accelerated profitability," said Mark Payne, vice president and CFO for Floyd & Beasley Transfer Company, Inc.

Netwise provides the yield-based continuous profitability backbone for all functions within the enterprise. Specific functions include yield management, shipper bid response, "what-if" analysis, and optimization of the freight mix. An essential benefit of Netwise is the knowledge of the yield of all logistical moves -- past, present and hypothetically. Netwise400 is a resident AS/400 system that provides the frontline with access to key yield management intelligence to solicit the most profitable freight, maximize equipment utilization and driver time at home. Netwise and Netwise400 are exceptional for maintaining yield management within an organization.

Match Advice provides real-time guidance on driver-to-load match. Based on the Netwise engine, Match Advice considers all relevant factors to maximize profits while honoring customer service requirements and satisfying driver needs. Match Advice ensures that the appropriate load-to-power match is assigned to maximize profitability, improve driver time-at-home, reduce in-transit delays and preclude the need for excessive load relays.

The complete suite of software products from Integrated interfaces with Netgraf, a powerful geographical information system. Netgraf graphically displays complex business data making it easy to analyze historical lane flow, real-time power and load data, real-time fuel networks, purchase information and real-time out-of-route information on a map of North America.

"We are very pleased with Floyd & Beasley's decision to install additional solutions from our product suite," said Dave Harris, vice president of sales & marketing for Integrated. "We are confident that they will enjoy an instant improvement in competitive pricing with Netwise as well as a continuous process to increase revenue per truck."

About Floyd & Beasley Transfer Company, Inc.
Floyd & Beasley Transfer Company was organized in 1944 when Cecil Floyd and Jule Beasley formed a partnership and acquired a small trucking firm headquartered in Sycamore, Alabama. Floyd & Beasley Transfer Company is an interstate common carrier and for many years operated primarily in the Southeast. The first operations of Floyd & Beasley Transfer Company were limited to the textile industry with a very limited scope of operations, but with determination, routes were extended to cover a large portion of the 48 states, handling a variety of products from textiles, food products, paper and many other commodities. Currently, Floyd & Beasley operate in excess of 200 tractors and 600 trailers and still growing in the industry. For more information, visit www.fbtcinc.com.

About Integrated Decision Support Corporation
Integrated Decision Support Corporation (Integrated) is celebrating 25 years as a leading provider of decision support software for the truckload carrier, serving customers representing over 70000 power units and the "Top 100" carrier market. Integrated is recognized as a pioneer in the industry and for developing innovative software technologies that include the first power-to-load match in 1978. Integrated is committed to providing customers with a strategic advantage by increasing profitability through the use of optimization-based decision support planning and execution software. For more information, visit www.idscnet.com.



CONTACT: Dave Harris
Telephone: 972-671-0045 Ext. 211
Email: dharris@idscnet.com

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