Add a 'Loaded' status to note if a load is picked up. The flow would then be Assigned->Dispatched->Loaded->Empty.
Complete for build 40, due by April 1st if all continues to go well. I’ll be emailing news letter folk about the update.
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Dr Dispatch build 40 is up at http://www.drdispatch.com/downloads/drd5upgrade_55.exe password: spring
This has the new loaded status, please have a look so I can see if this is satisfactory
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Steve
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That's great Richard!
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Jeff
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I agree, its a good idea to move forward on
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Mike
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no I think its a good idea to move forward on it.
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Docked is for splits actually. It doesn't mean the same as loaded. Loaded is missing entirely at this point.
Docked is to denote a load is sort of drop loaded, kind of for cross docking, etc.
Adding a status is hard because of all the filters and reports would need updated to reflect that.
We would need to account for Docked in load list reports, load views, etc.
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Jeff
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For trucking, "assigned" for us means it is pre-planned on a truck. "Dispatched" means the driver has the load information and has been dispatched. "Docked", to us, doesn't tell us anything because this could be docked at the shipper or the consignee. "Loaded" would tell us that the truck is loaded at the shipper.
For brokerage it is much the same thing for us. The load is either "Assigned" to a carrier or "Dispatched" to the carriers driver, then "Loaded" would mean the carrier has picked up and "Empty" means it is delivered. Docked here just doesn't work for us either.
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Audie
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i thought assigned was that the truck will pk up the load and we do not know when he is enroute in brokerage. And dispatched meant he was loaded.
in trucking assigned meant that is the next load to pk up and dispatched meant he was loaded.
So I guess it is how you decide how you want to use it. -
Sandeep Singh Uppal commented
too many flows to go through!
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Dispatched means enroute to pickup. Changing dispatched-> loaded would take a ton of work and resources. Adding Loaded would not.
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Audie
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dispatched means the same thing change dispatched to loaded