Thursday, March 23, 2000 Prophesy's Website Helps Trucking Company Operate
Bloomfield, CT - March 23, 2000 -- A Nebraska-based trucking company ran the one-millionth route on Prophesy Transportation Software's popular portal site, mile.com. "It's really helpful looking up miles," says McRoberts Trucking President Jody McRoberts. "It's just easy for me to go in and figure actual miles. When we go somewhere we haven't gone before we always use it to find the routes."
Ms. McRoberts was one of the first users of mile.com. She became a registered user under the free program and has been looking up mileage and routes since November of last year. On March 23 Ms. McRoberts logged onto her mile.com account for a trip between Oak Grove, Missouri and Kingdom City, Missouri, marking the one-millionth time someone had used the site for mileage and routing. "It's very useful," stresses Ms. McRoberts.
In appreciation for her use of mile.com Prophesy has awarded Ms. McRoberts a suite of software products that includes Easystreet™ (street level routing), Tax TallyTM (fuel tax reporting), LogPlusTM (driver log auditing), and FleetTraxTM (fleet maintenance). The package is worth about $7,000.00.
McRoberts Trucking has six refrigerated power units and operates from Homer, Nebraska with four company drivers and two owner-operators. Ms. McRoberts says a driver with another company told her about mile.com and she has been using it ever since.
Mile.com was developed exclusively for the trucking and transportation community. The site is the most comprehensive transportation resource on the Internet, offering fuel purchase optimization, load matching, driver recruitment, truck and parts sales, weather and road conditions, transportation news, and online directories of trucking and shipping companies, as well as computer hardware and software guides.
"McRoberts Trucking is a perfect example of how this site can benefit a trucking company," says Prophesy Vice President William G. Ashburn. "At Prophesy, we strive to find solutions to problems that help trucking companies become more efficient and more profitable. We are able to give Ms. McRoberts an easy-to-use solution to her mileage and routing needs. Soon, Ms. McRoberts and others will have a wide range of solutions available to them from Prophesy and mile.com as we continue to expand our free Internet offerings as well as subscription-based solutions such as dispatch and accounting, fuel tax reporting, and intelligent load and resource matching."
The site has received nearly three million hits since it went on line in May of 1999.
Prophesy Transportation Software, Inc. is the single source for integrated Internet and Windows® solutions for today's transportation companies. Prophesy's products and customer dedication are built on more than 15 years of quality service and 25,000+ product installations for 8,500 customers ranging from the largest Fortune 100 companies to the smallest fleets. Prophesy continues to provide Internet and software solutions that meet and exceed the needs of transportation companies facing the information revolution in transportation.
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