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How to Achieve Total Control and Insight Into Your Company
One of the biggest frustrations for most company owners and managers is not having the critical information they need to make fast decisions. Whether it is “big-picture” analysis you need to do that can have a huge effect on your financing, or focused, micro-decisions, like how to assign resources based on the outstanding orders you …
Why Axon Software Might NOT Be For You
I have a confession to make. Axon Software is not for everybody and it might not be for you. Over the past 38-plus years, we have built a reputation for providing the highest quality TMS software with the highest level of support of any software company, in any industry. But as good as we are, …
The Backstory of Axon
Axon Software is the result of over 38 years of trucking company software research and design, with the input of hundreds of transportation professionals, just like you. At the risk of having you realize just how old I am, (please don’t call me an “old-coot”, it’s tough enough on me when my kids do that) …
Give Your Dispatchers the Ultimate Trucking Dispatch Tool
Your dispatchers are the front-line, go-to guys in your business. When they’re at the top of their game, they make things happen. Why slow them down with obsolete tools and poor customer intelligence? Real-Time Axon Trucking Dispatch Software gives them finger-tip control of the information they need to make snap decisions when it counts! Axon …
Looking Forward in the Trucking Industry
What a crazy situation we find ourselves in. Unemployment is skyrocketing, many people have less money to spend, businesses are hurting, less is being produced, and it feels like the economy is grinding to a halt in many ways, apart from the essentials.
5 Reasons Why a Good Website Is Essential for Trucking Companies
Let’s be honest. Most trucking companies have a website that looks like it was built in the 90’s, if they even have a website at all. Larger trucking companies are starting to turn this trend around, but overall, websites are highly underrated in this industry.
Using Habits and Automation to Work Harder and Live Better
One of the best books I’ve read so far this year is Atomic Habits by James Clear. It’s a fresh and modern take on an old idea that comes into focus every so often (30 years ago we had “7 habits of highly effective people”). Habits are a useful lens to examine our behavior, understand …
QuickBooks VS. Specialized Trucking Accounting Software
When first starting out, most small businesses invest in accounting software. QuickBooks is the most popular. Others include Sage, Xero and MYOB. These products do a serviceable job of billing and accounting, for a typical small business in its early stages. But trucking companies are not typical – and trucking company owners don’t want their …