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Let Caribou Software Give You the Edge

Knowing the financial performance  of your business is simply non-negotiable in today's marketplace.  Caribou's truck management software – The Trucker's Edge - is a Windows based application designed to help you run your log hauling operation more profitably by giving you better business information, while reducing the time spent on maintaining a variety of disjointed accounting spreadsheets.

The Trucker's Edge Key Benefits

Let  The Trucker's Edge  streamline your business:

• Store all load data and contract data in one single database rather than countless spreadsheets.
• Import your load data from the mill, saving you endless hours keypunching load slips.

• Compare revenues earned from each job you've worked against total costs you've incurred, both out-of-pocket and allocated shares of overhead costs, such as depreciation, interest and insurance.

• Generate reports such as revenue and deliveries by destination, cycle times by truck, and costs by tonne or by kilometer.  Even if you pay drivers by the load, you can track the hours drivers work based on standard trip times.

• Store all load, rate and job data in one single database rather than countless spreadsheets.  There is no duplicate data entry.
• Track the time spent by your own mechanics on each of your trucks, and track the out-of-pocket expenditures for third-party mechanics or repair shops.
• Automate the creation of subcontractor settlements and other types of delivery and costing reports.
• Compare actual payments from the mill with expected payments, and easily flag tickets for which you've not been paid, or for which you've received incorrect payment.
• Generate load count and delivery reports for any mill at the click of a mouse.
• Automate your filing for provincial fuel rebates.

The Trucker's Edge Core Features

General

• Setup wizards for ease of creating new jobs/tracts and new contracts
• Track loads by destination, product, truck type, route, driver.
• Extensive copy capabilities throughout the system
  
• Configurable labels and screens allow tailoring to suit regional or customer-specific terminology.
• Active flags on all setup data tables allow you to hide old information from day-to-day view, while still preserving the information for historic reporting.
• Track direct and indirect costs associated with your trucks
• Track miscellaneous expenditures and mechanic time for maintenance and repair work on each truck.
• Excel-compatible data entry grids and reports.
 

Load Slips

• Quick-and-easy search interface to look up load slip information by date, by destination, by tract, or by truck.
  
• Ability to track hand-scaled volumes on tickets for high-value hardwood and to track weights on tickets for lower-value wood, using conversion factors to convert the weights to volume measures such as M3 or cords.
  
  
• Flexible data structure allows you to track whatever load attributes (like product, truck, driver, route or truck type) your business requires.
  
• Electronic load import capabilities.
  
• Ability to pay based on a variety of methods including by the load, tonne, M3, cords, distance traveled.
  
• Payment of late tickets using the date for pay field, which is separate from the delivery date.
 

Load Slip Pay

• Ability to pay on weight or volume basis - Tonnes, Cords, M3, etc.
• Pay based on percentage of your load revenue.
• Pay based on load count.
• Pay individual drivers -- includes ability to split payments.
• Pay based on kilometers or tonne miles.
• Pay minimum amount.
• If needed,  pay based on log scaled log volume.

Trucking

• Ability to pay based on load count, weight, route, distance.
• Integrated worksheet that allows you to calculate your standard truck cost based on identifiable components, such as fuel, other fluids, repairs, maintenance, depreciation, insurance, etc.
• Tracks round trip cycle times.
• Ability to pay minimum for short loads.
• Ability to pay driver and/or truck owner separately.
• Tracks deliveries and revenue.
• Set up overload thresholds and deduct pay based on the load or tons

Reporting

• Extensive set of standard reports for tracking information such as deliveries by destination, production and profitability by tract, truck cycle times, and deliveries by truck.
• Analysis reports that provide details on settlements, load revenue and deliveries by mill and trucking costs.
• Tract-by-tract profit/loss statements that provide a summary view of profitability on a job-by-job basis, taking into account both direct and indirect costs.
• Contract reports that consolidate tract financial and delivery data by destination mill.
• Ticket tracking reports that detail settlement amounts and payments on a load-by-load basis.
• Reports in worksheet format that can be easily transported into MS Excel for additional analysis or charting.
• Value-added custom report-building services to provide you with information specific to your business practices.
• User-defined reporting tools for users wanting to build their own reports.

Why Choose Caribou Software?

• Our product is developed and supported by people who know the forest industry.
• Our product is used by some of the largest contractors in North America.
• Our goal is to make every customer a reference site, so you can be assured that we'll do our best to provide you with the best product and service in the industry, bar none!

Superior Software.

Superior Service.

Superior Solution.