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Decisions! Decisions! Are you looking for dump truck software for your dispatchers? Do you need a way to record and manage your dump truck loads, in order to able to both bill customers and to pay your drivers?  Alternatively, does trying to find a dispatch software for something like, perhaps, short haul, dump or straight…

Typically, when you think of trucking, you think of semi-trucks and trailers, the big rigs you see running down the highway.   Trekking all over the country.  This is usually referred to as long haul trucking or over the road trucking.  The drivers of these trucks drive long distances, usually all over the country.  However, trucking…

Before we dive into this week’s trending topics, courtesy of Transport Topics, let us talk about you.  Yeah, you, owner of a trucking company. Running a trucking business means you need to be operating on all six cylinders (or eight if you are a beast) all the time, 24/7! With so much to keep track…

Showing a profit is a priority for any business owner. You need to surround yourself with great people, great equipment, and great software! And, of course, always have a plan. We, at TMS Digital, certainly understand and we can help you with the great software. In addition, I will share some great tips, further down.We…

It has been a tough week in the trucking world, with the Dust storm in Utah causing a horrific crash and eight deaths. Then there was the truck stop fire, off I-65 at Exit 22 in Cornersville, Tennessee. Thankfully, no injuries were reported. In addition, an agreement on the infrastructure bill has still not been…

You would have to live under a rock to be unaware of all the recent news reports regarding the ransomware attacks that are occurring, more and more frequently.  There have been more than 40 publicly reported ransomware attacks against food companies, alone, since May 2020, according to Allan Liska, senior security architect at the cybersecurity…

New TMS Digital Apps!! We are super excited to announce new changes coming to our TMS Trucker App!  Along with our imaging capability, it will now be easier to send load information TO and receive updates and locations FROM your driver! Drivers already love our TMS Trucker App, which lets them send safe, secure and…

How the Infrastructure proposal affects the Trucking Industry. With TMS Digital being a Transportation Management System provider, which includes our trucking software like Tickets for heavy duty trucks and dump trucks, our sophisticated work horse, Dispatch, for over the road trucking, as well as our IFTA Manager program, it is really important for us to…

TMS Digital Tickets was created and written for those short, repetitive truckloads, for example: hauling gravel back and forth from a quarry to a job site.  Or, running cement trucks back and forth to new construction. Another example would be asphalt loads, multiple trips for road repair. I am going to share with you a…

Are you looking for trucking software, but you are not an ‘over the road’ type company? You can’t find that right fit?  Do you run dump trucks or cement mixers but feel like there is not any software out there for companies like yours? Are you looking for something that makes it easier for you…

This has been an exciting year for us, here at TMS Digital. Over the last 35 years, we have evolved from one man, Bob Berner, who was a crop duster at the time, writing his first program in dBase. He went on to write our first TMS Dispatch program. He was successful and hired programmers…

As an applications specialist, we work with dispatchers every day, to make sure our TMS product is running smoothly and that our clients get the information they need. We understand how critical it is to track and always know the status of each load.  How important it is for you to know where your equipment…