Bottom line: Worth the subscription if you care about getting paid a little more. I run three trucks in the Southeast and the predictive market pricing is what actually paid for the monthly fee - it helped me spot lanes where I could push rates and those few better-paying loads covered the cost pretty quick. Not perfect (a couple junk matches here and there), but price-to-payoff made it an easy 4/5 for me.
Roselyn Osinski
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87 reviews · average 3.6Last Tuesday a shipper rerouted a load at 11:30 PM and our driver ended up waiting two hours - Aljex pulled the carrier GPS timestamps and automatically appended detention charges to the invoice, which cut out a weekend of back-and-forth. I run three trucks and after nine years of fighting for payment, getting that proof attached and paid in a few days felt like a real win. Small thing, but it saved me time and a headache.
I hesitated for months on Transport Pro because most TMS plans felt like wallet-drainers; the price finally pushed me to give it a shot. I’ve been at this nine years managing three trucks in the Southeast, and the billing/invoicing setup alone saved me more than the subscription in the first month - no more missed charges or awkward collection calls. Worth every dollar.
After nine years running three trucks in the Southeast, I switched to ProTransport to keep dispatch and loads in one place. Most days it's fine - nice to have configurable screens and ELD integrations - but twice this quarter it hiccuped during peak dispatch and I spent an hour rerouting drivers by phone while the app showed blank loads; support eventually fixed it after a ticket but the damage was done. Works when it's up, but I can't fully trust it on crunch days.
IFTA reporting is the one thing that hooked me - it churns out quarter summaries way faster than I expected. But the trip-splitting and manual reallocate tool is clumsy; had to redo mileage for one truck after a multi-state detour and it ate up an afternoon. Handy when it works, maddening when it doesn't.
Nine years in and with three trucks down here in the Southeast, I rely on software to keep things honest. I was driving to a pickup at midnight when a broker corrected a rate - updated the bill in Axon and watched the driver pay and invoices recalc automatically, so I didn't have to call my dispatcher or rewrite payroll the next morning. That one-click cascade saved me hours and a headache; small feature but huge when you're solo and on the road.
Three trucks and nine years running in the Southeast - I switched to TruckingOffice after years of juggling spreadsheets and a clunky invoicing app. The thing that made me happiest was the automated invoicing: invoices get built from the load details so I’m not recreating bills every Friday night, and payment tracking actually lines up with what the drivers bring back. Took a little time to set up, but it’s cut my billing nights in half.
One rainy Tuesday our main driver called in sick with a load leaving in an hour and I had to reshuffle everything on the fly. I'm an owner-operator with three trucks and nine years in the Southeast, so last-minute swaps are just part of the job - what actually made me smile was how fast Dr Dispatch let me reassign the load and push the trip details out by text. Two clicks later the replacement driver had the pickup info, the e-docs were already prefilled, and we pulled out on time instead of eating a detention fee.
…that the mobile app uploads POD photos before I even get back to the truck. My small fleet - three trucks down here in the Southeast - uses it every day and the auto-tagged proofs cut billing headaches in half, really saves me from chasing paper. It'll lag if you're in dead-zone country, but otherwise super reliable and fast.
...paid for itself in the first month - that drag-and-drop board shaves off so much dispatch time I actually got real evenings back. I run three trucks and nine years on the road makes me stingy with software, but this was worth it; fewer calls and fast reassignments cut wasted miles and headaches. Solid price for the time it returns.
Had to spend two afternoons wrestling with the CSV import and field mapping before my drivers' tablets would talk to it. Setup felt half-baked - GPS pairing was straightforward but the route templates didn't match how we run loads down here in the Southeast and support took a day to answer. Once it settled in, Cortex AI started suggesting tighter runs and I noticed less deadhead, so I'm honestly torn: useful once running, annoying to get there.