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Head on over to boothe 318 at TIA2022 for your chance to have a meet and greet with none other than the one-and-only Brad McMichael. Now you are probably confused and asking yourself, “Who is this Brad McMichael and Why would I want to meet him?”. Is he a famous Author? Nope. Television personality? Nada. Man of mystery? Perhaps. In fact, it is universally accepted that no one should smile in the office as much as Brad does on a Monday. If that’s not a mystery to all I don’t know what is. So while answering the question of “Who” Brad is might be VERY tough, telling you why you should meet him is not. Brad has come to TIA2022 to demo some really cool transportation technology from Tranztec. The kind of of tech that can integrate with all your existing systems kinda cool. The kind of tech that is going to save you a lot of money kinda cool. The kind of tech your business deserves in 2022 kinda cool. So head on over to boothe 318 and #BeCoolWithBrad and take a photo for your chance to win a $100 gift card ( oh yea, Micheal Ingersoll is there as well but I didn’t have time to fit him in this promo. ) See you at TIA2022!

Founded in 2001 by experienced executives in the trucking industry, this first-time investment from outside investors will help Tranztec take advantage of a huge market opportunity and drive future growth.

Tranztec, a logistics technology leader, announced today it has closed a Series A funding round led by Tamarind Hill based in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 2001 by experienced executives in the trucking industry, this first-time investment from outside investors will help Tranztec take advantage of a huge market opportunity and drive future growth.

Right now is the right time, with the right partner”, said Toby Miller, Tranztec CEO and Co-Founder. “Our mission is to provide the visibility the supply chain expects in a platform that is accessible to everyone. Tranztec was built on integration. Connecting people to the data that matters most to them. It is our passion, legacy and future. It is this relentless pursuit of connection that drives everything that we do.”

Asked about the investment with Tranztec, Tamarind Hill’s Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Mark Shary said, “The logistics industry is undergoing a digital transformation that will continue to evolve and Tranztec’s VIA platform provides connectivity and visibility across the supply chain that includes carriers, brokers/third party logistics providers, shippers and suppliers. Tranztec’s user-friendly and easy to deploy platform addresses problems of manual processes, disconnected systems and miscommunications that lead to inefficiencies in the supply chain.”

The demand for transparency and visibility in shipping has exploded throughout the supply chain in recent years. While Tranztec’s VIA platform addresses many of these demands, additional funding allows an accelerated growth strategy to meet customers’ needs at an escalated pace. New capital will provide broader support for leading supply chain partners, transportation management systems and commercial vehicle telematics providers.

Former President and Founder of Pacejet Larry DeLeon, an experienced software executive in the digital supply chain space, is joining Tranztec as Chief Operating Officer to help build on its success.

Further details of the investment have not been disclosed.

Normal.

It is a comforting word. As the COVID-19 virus extends its reach across our country, those who have lost or will lose loved ones will wake up to a new normal. To those families, Tranztec extends our deepest sympathies. You endure the greatest of losses this pandemic has to offer and our hearts go out to you.

For the rest of us, the consequences are not as grave but in many cases still life altering. COVID-19 is stealing our Normal. For some this means the loss of a job, for others the loss of their business. Most face long lines to greet us when purchasing the items we need, while others are finding they have no access to these necessities at all. Every day brings with it a new set of challenges that each of us must overcome. Rethinking how we live, work and play.

As a transportation management platform provider, we wondered what role we could play in the bigger picture to help those in our communities? After much thought, today we are pleased to announce a few changes to our VIA platform that we think will help get us closer to normal.

First, we have added a free option to the VIA sign-up page. On the road to recovery many are having to remotely work and find new ways to conduct business. This will be different for every person and every business – we’re just hoping this helps that effort in some small way. This free subscription is not a limited time offer, you are welcome to continue using the platform for as long as you like in the future.

Second, we are opening VIA up to ALL companies that need it regardless of their business sector. This will allow charities, disaster organizations, and small businesses of any variety the ability to better see and manage their supply chain, so the right stuff gets to the right people who need it most. Goods donations, charity lines, medical supplies or whatever logistical information needs to be managed.

Lastly, we are making VIA Mobile available to charities and disaster organizations at no cost during this difficult period to allow for GPS tracking, content, and disinfection status of much-needed resources.

This is our start. In the coming days as we get new information we will reevaluate and look at other areas we may be able to improve and continue to offer help and support to those in need. In this small way we can hopefully help get us closer to normal.

Toby Miller
CEO, Tranztec Solutions

For more information or to sign up for VIA please see our website at www.tranztec.com

We started Tranztec in 2001 with the goal of making the transportation space a place more easily navigated. Our founder and CEO, Toby Miller, had been working with TMW and other industry leading platforms for years and wanted to find a way to connect various legacy software offerings together to better enhance the overall experience and productivity of the industry as a whole.

It wasn’t long after, Tranztec’s patented Tranzactor platform was born – a middleware application which would change the industry as we know it. Tranzactor allowed integrations between TMS (transportation management systems) and numerous other offerings such as MobileComm units, load boards, fuel cards, imaging systems, and many more to be built and operational in weeks instead of months or even years.

For the next 15 years, we continued to grow our partnerships with TMW, McLeod, MercuryGate, and other leading TMS providers and built a robust integration library that offered connections between just about every transportation related platform in the market.

 In 2017, we launched VIA – our latest offering and a product that truly encompasses our 17 years of innovation in the space by taking everything we have built so far and combining it with a modern web-based interphase that allows users to manage their transportation business (whether a broker, shipper, or carrier) like never before.     

In the past 9 months, we have on-boarded more than 150 carriers to the VIA platform, however, to us, VIA is a project that never is complete. VIA truly stands as a symbol for what our company really is because VIA, like Tranztec, is a living product that continues to evolve and grow in an effort to make this space just a little bit better for everyone. 

We stand proud of what we have accomplished, but feel this is only the beginning….

We hope you enjoyed this blog, if you want to learn more about Tranztec or VIA, we would love to hear from you through our instant chat, social media, contact page, or phone.

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In 2017, we launched VIA – our latest offering and a product that truly encompasses our 17 years of innovation in the space by taking everything we have built so far and combining it with a modern web-based interphase that allows users to manage their transportation business (whether a broker, shipper, or carrier) like never before.    

But what is VIA? What does it do? And why do you need it?

VIA is an ecosystem and an ever-evolving product where users can collaborate with customers, trading partners, drivers, and colleagues in real-time.

 VIA makes it easier than ever to obtain carrier rates, manage quotes, dispatch trucks, and track loads because it connects everyone together so communication can be more streamlined.

VIA breaks to conventional mold of ripping out and replacing by allowing users to continue using what they have, but fill in gaps where they are needed. This is accomplished by offering real-time 2-way data sync between VIA and any product with an API on the market today. 

You are going to love VIA and so will your customers. VIA is going to allow you to build a cohesive bond between your team, your drivers, and your customers that will truly enhance their experience as well as your own.

We hope you enjoyed this blog, if you want to learn more about Tranztec or VIA, we would love to hear from you through our instant chat, social media, contact page, or phone.

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In today’s market, most of the major shippers are demanding full visibility to their freight. Whether this comes in the form of EDI or load consolidation solutions such as FourKites, MacroPoint, or Project 44, the shipper’s heightened requirements usually leave the carrier footing the bill.

The large carriers have learned to adapt or even build these new costs of doing business into their pricing, but small trucking companies are now struggling to front new financial burdens attached to their already razor-thin margins per load.

At Tranztec, we have watched the small carrier struggle and have stepped in to offer the following solutions to help keep the little guys keep afloat:

1. Load Consolidation Platform Integration – Over the past decade, Tranztec has built integrations with Macropoint, 10-4, FourKites, Project44, and many more. When you become part of our patented VIA ecosystem, you are full access to these integrations free of cost beyond our monthly subscription. VIA automatically syncs your data to the platform of your shipper’s choice so you can continue doing business as usual.
   
   
2. EDI Integration – EDI is often required by large shippers and almost always expensive. EDI requires two fundamental pieces, both of which are cost prohibitive to small carriers.
   1. In order to send and receive EDI, a Value Added Network Provider (VAN) is required. VANs charge on a per character basis making it very difficult to assume costs and build it into pricing.
   1. Additionally, most EDI requires the use of a costly transportation management platform (TMS) of which small carriers do not have.

Our VIA platform solves both issues – We eliminate per character EDI charges bypassing the VAN and directly connecting with your trading partners. In addition, we provide a portal for interacting with incoming EDI eradicating the need for a TMS altogether.

We are here to help and want to help small carriers because we recognize the value they bring to the industry. With new ELD requirements and the continued up-tick in cost of doing business, we feel every little bit helps. Our goal has been, and always will be, to help business grow and in return grow our own company. We hope these new innovations help pave that path.

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We have been in the industry for over 18 years and one thing we often notice is the lack of a system designed specifically for brokers.

There are a lot of transportation management platforms out there that claim to handle a broker’s everyday operations and business needs, but why do so many of them seem to fall short or feel more catered to the carrier?

Our VIA platform was designed to help brokers better manage their orders throughout the entire lifecycle of the load by tackling each of the following areas where others fall short.

1. Customer Portal
   1. The core of any brokerage exists in its ability to communicate with their customers. VIA provides users with an intuitive portal that can be used to share information back and forth with clients such as BOL, load status, quotes, quote requests, invoices, and much more. 
   2. To further enhance the experience, VIA also allows brokers to communicate instantly with their customers using our embedded chat system.
2. Quote & Bid Management
   1. A fundamental problem in running a brokerage office is minimizing effort spent on generating quotes. In addition, work is often being repeated because employees don’t have a collaborative space where information can be shared freely. VIA stops this problem by allowing entire teams to work together in a space where quotes, bids, and crucial information can be accessed by anyone and shared instantly with your customer.
3. Carrier Rates
   1. An essential piece of running a brokerage is acquiring carrier rates for routes. VIA revolutionizes this process by connecting directly to a carrier’s API and pulling rates automatically. What does this mean for the broker? It means a rep can type in a route and see a list of rates from their favorite carriers instantly with ever picking up the phone or sending an email.
4. Carrier Network & EDI
   1. To further enhance the communication between brokers and carriers, VIA allows brokers to invite carriers into a private network where load location, status, BOL, invoices, and other critical items can be shared in real-time.
   2. As with the customer portal, brokers can also chat with their carriers using the instant messaging built right into the VIA platform.
   3. In addition, VIA has the ability to send EDI to carriers such as 204 (load tenders) as well as 214 (status updates) to customers automatically.
5. External Load Tracking & Management
   1. In the past decade, complete load visibility has become the standard and customers are now demanding the ability to instantly access the status of their loads. VIA provides the fastest, most cost effective, and most flexible external load tracking solution on the market. Just enter a driver’s number and the system will send a text message to the driver. When the driver accepts, you will have full insight on your load. There is no app to download on the driver’s end and no setup required on the broker’s end.
   2. VIA also offers a fully interactive map complete with color indicated status reports and bread crumb mapping.
6. Split Loads
   1. A huge issue in the brokerage industry is the inability for any TMS to properly manage split loads. VIA…
7. Invoicing / Bill-To
   1. Funding is important, it is the fundamental reason for doing business. VIA’s ecosystem between customers, brokers, and carriers allows all parties to get paid faster because the invoicing process is instantaneous.
   2. Because VIA knows the status of any load, it can automatically send 210 (invoices) to the broker from the carrier when the load is completed. Furthermore, it can send invoices to customers simultaneously.
8. Reporting
   1. Metrics have always been essential to business, but in today’s brokerage market, customers are now requiring business intelligence analytics in the form of reports like never before. 
   2. VIA can provide users and customers real-time reporting capabilities in a shared environment further enhancing a broker’s ability to satisfy customers and grow their business.

We hope you enjoyed this blog, if you want to learn more about Tranztec or VIA, we would love to hear from you through our instant chat, social media, contact page, or phone.

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