...for about $40 a truck a month plus a $150 install, the GPS would drop out in our yard and the 'driver score' nudges cost us time and even a missed load that wiped a few hundred off the day's pay - after 20 years driving company trucks in the Midwest, that stung. Not worth the money.
Clyde Rosenbaum
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89 reviews · average 2.8Bottom line: worth the price if you want to dodge surprise repairs, though the monthly fee made me wince at first. After twenty years behind the wheel I was skeptical, but the maintenance reminders flagged a worn brake pad before it failed and probably saved us a tow and a big repair bill.
Mid-run the Geotab app froze and the GPS drifted off - cost me a missed pickup and an extra hour of deadhead while I tried to reroute. Between constant logouts, slow map redraws, and rebooting my phone in cold Midwest weather, it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
Twenty years driving Midwest routes, I don't get impressed easily. Locus's live ETA/tracking looks great on screen - saved us some guessing - but the ETAs jump around so much they're unreliable on busy streets, which feels useful in theory and maddening in practice.
After twenty years on the road in the Midwest I swapped our creaky in-house routing app for Bringg expecting a straight upgrade. The live tracking actually calmed customers down compared to what we had, but the driver app can be flaky and the automatic reroutes sometimes cost me time - so I’m torn between liking the visibility and missing the old system’s plain reliability.
Bottom line: ParkourSC's dynamic ETA updates actually line up with what happens on the road and that alone is worth it. After twenty years behind the wheel out of the Midwest, the way the live milestones bumped my arrival when a Kansas City rail delay held us saved me from endless check-calls to dispatch and let me plan a real break instead of sitting at the dock.
Used it for three months. Setup was a mess - sensors wouldn't pair without opening a support ticket, activation codes timed out, and I lost two shifts waiting on help which cost me a missed delivery and a ruined refrigerated load.
Bottom line: Infor Nexus gives much clearer, actually usable ETA updates than the clunky TMS we ran before. After twenty years of driving out of the Midwest and chasing carrier emails, the single dashboard that pulls milestone updates and fires one clear alert when a pickup slips is what made me happiest - fewer surprise holds at the dock and way fewer status calls.
Bottom line: OneRail couldn't be trusted when it mattered. On a Friday rush the live tracking froze, dynamic ETAs were routinely off by 45–90 minutes and the automated matching shoved runs onto drivers who were hours away - after 20 years on Midwest routes I've never had to re-run so many stops, and we ate the redeliveries and angry customers.
...that ETA shift alert is useless - it pushed my delivery time two hours later than reality on I-80, so dispatch didn't plan for the early unload and I ate a $350 detention charge; wasted time and money because the system showed 'on schedule.' Called support for an hour and all I got was canned replies while the clock ran.