Guides for trucking company owners, dispatchers and back offices

Practical guides on running a trucking company: choosing a TMS, dispatch across time zones, owner-operator settlements, AI load entry, Chicago trucking and what a TMS really costs.

• AI Found a Hacking Risk in Millions of Websites. Ella TMS Is Safe. Here's What It Means for Your Trucking Company

  AI found a security hole in a technology behind most websites, and hackers jumped on it within hours. Ella TMS isn't built on it, so your data is safe. Here's what to check elsewhere.

• Who Owns Your TMS? Trucking Software Is Being Bought and Sold, and Your Data Goes With It

  Trimble is weighing a sale of its TMS unit. DAT, Descartes, WiseTech and private equity keep buying. When your TMS changes owners, your loads, rates and driver records change owners too.

• Your TMS Support Should Work Your Hours: How Ella Onboards a Fleet From Miami

  Support that answers while your trucks are rolling, and two months of onboarding where we change the system to fit your team, not the other way around.

• Running a Trucking Company in Chicago: Lanes, Winters, Tolls and the Software That Keeps Up

  Chicago is the country's freight crossroads, which brings its own problems: winter closures, tolls, crowded DCs and loads that cross half a dozen states. Here's how local carriers stay ahead of them.

• TMS softver za srpske trucking kompanije u Americi: vodič za vlasnike

  Dispečeri u Srbiji, kamioni u Americi, owner-operatori koji čekaju obračun svake nedelje. Šta treba da zna svaki vlasnik pre nego što izabere TMS.

• How Chicago's Serbian Trucking Companies Run Their Fleets, and What Every Carrier Can Learn

  Family-owned, dispatch split between Chicago and Serbia, owner-operators paid every week. What Balkan-owned fleets need from their software, and what any growing carrier can learn from them.

• Slow, Manual and No AI: 10 Signs Your TMS Is Holding Your Fleet Back

  If your dispatchers wait on every click and still type every rate confirmation by hand, your TMS is costing you more than its price. Ten signs, and what to expect instead.

• AI in Trucking Software: Where Your Data Goes, and How to Keep Driver Information Safe

  Social Security numbers, CDLs, medical cards, drug test results, bank details: carriers hold sensitive data. Before AI touches it, know where it goes and who can see it.

• Running a Dispatch Team From Another Country: What Your TMS Has to Handle

  More US carriers run dispatch and back office from abroad. Here's what breaks first when the team is seven hours away, and what the software has to do about it.

• How to Choose a TMS for a Growing Trucking Company (20–150 Trucks)

  Twelve questions to ask before you sign, the red flags to watch for in a demo, and how to move your history without stopping the business.

• Per-Truck TMS Pricing vs. Owning Your TMS: What a 20–100 Truck Fleet Really Pays

  Subscription software looks cheap per truck and expensive per year. Here's the three-year math for 20, 50 and 100 trucks, and when a subscription is still the better choice.

• From Rate Confirmation to Load in Seconds: How AI Load Entry Works

  Typing rate confirmations into a TMS is slow and error-prone. Here's how AI load entry works, where it needs a human, and how to roll it out to your dispatchers.