LTL/Truckload Motor Carriers (LTL/TL)

LTL/TL carriers need to protect profit margins while meeting the increasing demands of shippers in a very competitive market. As pressures to improve customer service and delivery cycles mount, leading LTL/TL companies must invest in fleet management services as part of a committed customer service approach and to maintain competitive advantage. 

Descartes has been delivering a variety of solutions to LTL carriers for more than a decade – from basic messaging services to complete inbound planning and optimization capabilities. Customers rely on Descartes as their single source provider of visibility, optimization and compliance capabilities across multiple operational areas.

Descartes’ Global Logistics Network combined with value-added applications help LTL/TL carriers:

• Raise driver productivity.
• Improve asset utilization dramatically for trucks.
• Increase on-time deliveries significantly based on the choice of technology.
• Receive bills of lading, return status messages and invoices electronically with thousands of participating shippers, freight payment agencies or other trading partners.
• Improve customer service through better on-time performance and improved reliability and predictability with dynamic routing, real-time wireless dispatch and tracking, and automated EDI services.
• Comply with customs and compliance requirements and regulations

Descartes offers a suite of logistics management solutions that are offered as an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model, or as traditional, installed applications. With Descartes, customers can realize the benefits of applications providing real-time delivery data in order to improve routing, optimization and overall customer service.

Through the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN), the world’s leading transportation providers are connecting to their trading partners and exchanging information to drive delivery performance and high levels of customer satisfaction. The Descartes GLN includes solutions and services for Messaging, Local Haulage/Interline, Rate Management, Customs Filing & Compliance — Cross-Border Services, Track & Trace, Shipment Management and Fleet Management.

Descartes can also address business challenges with solutions such as MobileLink/Dispatch/Automated Vehicle Locator (AVL).

Descartes' LTL/TL customers include:

• Argix Direct
• New England Motor Freight
• Old Dominion Freight Lines
• USF Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.