TCA Official Encourages Firms to Optimize Software Packages

rucking companies must do a better job of using software and increase that use to stay profitable in an era of lower margins and higher operating costs, said Barry Pottle, first vice chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association.

Speaking last month at a conference sponsored by McLeod Software, Pottle also said that trucking executives, particularly at smaller companies, should be willing to call each other to find out what software they have used to help their companies reduce costs and improve operations. “We have got to start helping each other out,” he told Transport Topics. Pottle also is president of Pottle’s Transportation Inc., Bangor, Maine.

Other industry executives at the conference in Birmingham, Ala., agreed that trucking companies should be using software to help them track shipments, monitor pricing data and to ensure drivers are being paid in a timely fashion.