Integrated Decision Support Corporation (IDSC), a leading provider of decision support software for the truckload carrier, welcomes Miller Brothers Express as a new customer of the Trip Alert/Swap Advice® exception alert and event management software solution. Miller Brothers, Inc. is a premier transportation company delivering refrigerated food products, dry van freight and livestock and has been an IDSC customer of Expert Fuel® since 2006.
"Trip Alert/Swap Advice complements our progressive technology program by seamlessly integrating to our dispatch, mobile communications and fuel optimization systems. We plan to use Trip Alert/Swap Advice company-wide to promote proactive customer service and offer advanced fleet security while reducing out-of-route miles. The ability to identify swap opportunities that will improve profitability, minimize service failures and help to get drivers home is a feature that really sets Trip Alert/Swap Advice apart," said Kris Miller, President of Miller Brothers Express.
Trip Alert/Swap Advice software from IDSC is power-packed with capabilities that provide greater control of critical assets, proactive communication with customers, advanced fleet security, and improved quality of life for drivers--all while minimizing out-of-route miles and accelerating profits. Trip Alert/Swap Advice monitors the power unit along the entire trip ensuring that the driver is taking the most efficient and safe route to the customer. Managers have visual status of their entire fleet at-a-glance coupled with the ability to zoom in on a specific power unit. Historical and real-time reporting capabilities offer the information necessary to optimize driver and fleet performance. Trip Alert also identifies swap candidates which allow the dispatcher to exchange loads in-transit in order to minimize service failures while maximizing equipment utilization and driver time at home.
"Trip Alert/Swap Advice provides total visibility and real-time monitoring of your entire asset base?at-a-glance along with real-time exception alerts for: out-of-route miles, early, on-time, or late delivery, driver Hours-of-Service?and driver swap opportunities to ensure profit potential, prevent service failures and to get drivers home. Our dynamic and custom geofencing is activity-based, so you can monitor a variety of activities," said Dave Harris, VP of Sales for IDSC.
About Miller Brothers Express
Headquartered in Hyrum, Utah, family-owned Miller Brothers Express operates over 63 power units providing premier truckload services primarily west of the Mississippi but also throughout the United States for a diversified clientele. Miller Brothers Express employs ICC dispatch and QUALCOMM satellite mobile communications technologies. For more information, visit www.mbexlc.com
About Integrated Decision Support Corporation
Integrated Decision Support Corporation (IDSC) celebrates over 28 years as a leading provider of optimization and decision support software exclusively for the truckload carrier, serving customers representing over 120,000 power units and the "Top 100" carrier market. IDSC is recognized as a pioneer in the industry and for developing innovative software technologies that include the first power-to-load match optimization introduced in 1978 and the first fuel optimization program introduced in 1994. IDSC is committed to providing customers with a strategic advantage by accelerating profitability through the use of optimization-based decision support planning and execution software. For more information, visit www.idscnet.com.
