Posts by tsmith

Alaska Shipping

Alaska TruckingAlaska Shipping is a unique service of the trucking industry.  Not every trucking company is willing to send their trucks to the great white north.  However, we have many drivers that enjoy the demanding job of shipping product to and from Alaska.  We are going to discuss in this article of just what is involved for both the equipment...

New Load in Sammons

The first 2-3 times you enter a load into the Sammons system, watch this video.  This video is long but detailed.  Once you have entered a 2-3 loads, then watch the second video for a much quicker view on entering a new load.  Once you done that a couple times, you should be home free. https://www.heavyhaul.net/assets/enter-a-new-load.mp4 A quick video of entering a...

Deliver A Load

Watch this video on how to delivery a load in the Sammons AS400 system.  As always, make a note in STARS on the load when you have made an update in the AS400....

Dispatch Driver on Load

When a Sammons driver picks up a load, we need to “dispatch” him in the AS400 system.  What this really means is we need to assign a Sammons Pro#/Freightbill# and then provide the number to the driver. Remember:  The Pro# Sammons uses looks like this: 501300-020.  In STARS we don’t track the -020 portion of the number.  So internally we only use...

Checking Credit

Checking credit with Sammons is fairly simple.  Watch the below video. There is one other thing to keep in mind when checking credit in the AS400 system and that is if you are working with a customer direct shipper (no broker/logistics freight) then you will need to make sure the account is not assigned.  You will notice the below image on the far right side shows...