What I liked most was how quickly they got me rolling - one rep called, lined up a load, and handled the rate paperwork the same day so I could leave before noon. After 15 years running two trucks in the Midwest, sign-ups are usually a headache; MetroMax made it shockingly easy.
Elyssa Schulist
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89 reviews · average 4.3Used it for nine months - the mobile app's push alerts for new loads actually cut my phone-checking in half; as an owner-operator running two trucks in the Midwest that small time-saver translated into more miles and less back-and-forth with brokers.
The reroute MercuryGate suggested during last winter's blizzard saved me a night's layover and a pile of deadhead - the app found a corridor while broker emails were still piling up. I'm an owner-operator with two trucks and 15 years on the road, and though the interface can be clunky sometimes that one timely alert more than paid for the subscription.
Bottom line: Resolute pulled a late-night miracle and kept us rolling. I run two trucks in the Midwest and after 15 years I thought I’d seen it all - when a broker canceled at pickup on a Sunday night my dispatcher had a replacement load lined up within an hour, negotiated a higher rate and the extra fuel pay, and handled the broker paperwork so my driver never had to sit and wait.
Bottom line: Super Dispatch cut my paperwork time in half. After fifteen years running two trucks in the Midwest and months of juggling Excel sheets and texted photos, the automated BOL/POD photo capture with timestamps and e-signatures finally stopped the back-and-forth and got invoices settled faster.
Used it for 18 months. Price felt a bit steep for my two-truck setup at first, but the faster settlements - I had a load clear in 48 hours once - and less time fighting invoices have justified the monthly fee for my 15 years on Midwestern runs.
Bottom line: Worth the sticker price for me - felt pricey at first, but it paid back fast. After 15 years on the road with two trucks, the maintenance reminders caught a failing alternator before it cooked an engine and saved me a tow plus a huge repair bill, so that one feature made the monthly fee easy to swallow.
...thought it would be a straight upgrade from my old spot-tracker and paper logs - Teletrac Navman’s diagnostics and maintenance reminders actually caught issues before they became roadside nightmares, but the driver-behavior alerts are way too twitchy and the report exports need work for my bookkeeper. I'm torn: it gives useful heads-up info, but the constant false pings make the day feel busier, not easier.
Reliability - Azuga kept every ping solid and sent an instant alert when one rig drifted off-route during a sudden Midwest snow squall. After 15 years and two trucks, that kind of rock-solid location and timely alerting saved me a lot of time and headaches.
Engine-diagnostics alerts are useless - they kept spitting out the same vague fault code (P0420) and had me pulling a truck off the road twice this month. I run two trucks and have hauled in the Midwest for 15 years; every false alarm cost me a day in the shop, a missed load and roughly $350 in direct losses because the logs give no clear context to decide whether to keep rolling.
Last November, when a jackknifed semi shut down the only bridge on my route and I had a refrigerated load ticking down, Locus’s live tracking picked up an alternate and cut our delay by about half an hour. I’m an owner-operator with two trucks and 15 years in the Midwest, and compared to the spreadsheet-and-phone chaos I used before the accurate ETAs were the thing that actually calmed my drivers and stopped customers from blowing up my phone.