Good software reliably performs the functions it was designed to do on a daily basis. Really great software anticipates the uniqueness of your operation and allows you to tailor its functionality to handle the things that only you do at your company. ScrapBoss falls into the latter category.

Take our Trip Entry Screen. Let’s say you have a trip that consists of dropping an empty lugger, picking up a full lugger, and then returning to the yard. This trip type can easily be created and saved. When a new trip is entered, selecting that trip type will insert these three actions into the trip, eliminating most data entry. The system can also auto assign a driver to a customer, automatically direct different commodities to different yards, and split trips between drivers.

By creating regulars, your regularly scheduled trips can be generated daily for dispatching, avoiding a missed stop. Finally, during trip entry, a list of containers at the customer’s location is displayed on screen, eliminating errors. And, there is a check built into ScrapBoss to keep you from mismatching your equipment and container types.

Do you know where all your off-site containers are located and how long they’ve been there? Do you even know the containers you have in your yard? Most likely the answer is an emphatic “No!” Container control in ScrapBoss is a two part process. First, all your containers are inventoried and labeled with a rugged bar code label. Off-site containers are labeled as they are encountered in the course of business.

From that point on all container transactions are recorded by the driver using the bar code scanner in his mobile computer. As a result real time container inventory is available at all times. This tight container control eliminates yard checks and time spent looking for the correct container for a trip.

The Spotted Container List shows all containers that are at customer sites. Columns include days at site, type, size, and supplier. There is also a facility for tracking short term containers, such as at a construction site. The Yard Container List has filters to show only loaded, empty, pre-loaded, inbound or shop statuses and allows you to view inventory in multiple yards.

You’ve seen how ScrapBoss automates trip entry and maintains complete control over your containers, but what about the most important part of any company— the people? The nerve center of ScrapBoss is the Trip List Screen. Dispatchers can monitor all trips and drivers from one screen, with drill-down capability to see more detail. The screen is divided into the Trip section and the Driver section.

• Color coded trips instantly show communications status with drivers
• Automatic supplier close time alerts
• Trip records quickly expand to show all detail
• List can be filtered to show All , Incomplete, Cancelled, Done, Exception, Future, Missed, Pending and Review statuses
• Filter trips by container type and size
• Dispatch, reassign and modify trips

• Monitor drivers working out of multiple yards
• Displays current driver status: Ready, Logged In, Enroute to Stop, Arrived at Stop, Done
• View the time of last status received
• Alerts for excessive time since last communication, excessive time on trip, and approaching close time
• Filter the display by truck capabilities

Since the driver’s handheld computer is equipped with GPS and all stops are geocoded with GPS coordinates, many features are available that would have been impossible just a few years ago:

• Automated odometer readings
• Automated state line crossings and fuel tax reporting
• Geo-fencing for auto arrives
• Real time map displays of truck positions and container locations

Trip data can be transferred automatically to your scale software system, reducing backup at the scale. In addition, the driver handheld monitors time spent in the yard to help management eliminate bottlenecks.

Account information, trip number, trip time, mileage and delays can be transferred to your accounting system, eliminating duplicate entry and transcription errors.