Hipolito Padberg
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92 reviews · average 3.8
Bottom line: they pulled a last-minute miracle and I walked away paid instead of deadheading. One Tuesday near Des Moines a broker ghosted me on a 250-mile load; Express jumped on the phone, found a backhaul, pushed the rate up and had me rerouted in under an hour. After 12 years on Midwest lanes I dont get rattled easy, but that quick fix saved me a day of fuel and headaches - few tiny hiccups but cant complain.
Honestly the mobile app is hit-or-miss - when it works assigning a load and snapping a POD is slick and the driver gets it right away, but sometmes push notifications just dont arrive and photos fail to upload so I end up havin to call. After 12 years on the road out here in the Midwest I expect a phone app to be rock solid for day-to-day stuff, and this ain't quite there yet; it's useable but frustating. Kinda torn cus it saves time when it's good, but those dropouts make me doublecheck everything.
When a jackknifed semi shut down I-80 and my broker ghosted me, Freight Girlz answered my call at 11pm and had a reroute and a new load lined up before midnight. I liked that they actually picked up and didnt leave me sitting - they handled the broker talk and kept me rolling so I could focus on driving. Saved my night, no joke.
Small one-truck outfit in the Midwest - 12 years on the road, tight margins so price matters. Resolute charges about 7% and in my first week their dispatcher pushed a broker from $1,150 to $1,400; after the cut I still cleared extra bucks, so that fee pretty much paid for itself. No fancy talk - saved me time and added profit on a tough lane, def worth the price even when loads are slow.
Pricey, but the way it trims deadhead miles actually paid for itself in a couple months. I, an owner-operator in the Midwest with 12 years under my belt, finally took the plunge and the fuel savings showed up on the ledger fast - took some clicking around to get it right tho. It still stings on the invoce up front, but the cut in empty miles makes it defnitely worth it for my operation.
Used it for about six months. Getting started was a pain - onboarding promised "easy imports" but my EDI/CSV uploads kept erroring and suport took days to respond; I lost two loads because the dispatch board wouldn't sync with my phone. Feels clunky and not built with small owner-operators in the Midwest in mind, cost me time and a few hundred bucks in missed detentions so I'm out.
...installed the unit and the app paired in under 10 minutes - surprised me after 12 years on the rodes. I'm an owner-operator in the Midwest and the plug-and-play OBD-II dongle is the one thing that made me happy, no fiddling with wires and the rep hopped on a quick call to finish geofence setup. A couple tiny UI quirks but setup was ez and i'm already seeing tracking live.
Bottom line: Teletrac Navman was a step backward compared to what I used before. My old system (Samsara) kept GPS dead-on and alerts actually meant something; Teletrac's location dots jump blocks, the route replay is laggingg and I missed a delivery that cost me a $150 charge and a very unhappy customer. Owner-operator with 12 years in the Midwest - support was slow and kept sending links that didnt fix a thing.
Last month I got an alert at 2am saying my truck was parked at a customer's lot 30 miles away - it was sitting in my driveway. I've been running trucks 12 years in the Midwest, and compared to the old unit I had, Teletrac's remnders for oil/service actually caught something I'da missed and saved me a week of downtime. But the GPS pings are lagy and the map UI feels cluttered, so it's better for upkeep than for quick location checks when I'm routing loads - kinda torn about keeping it.
