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Datatrac Corporation’s innovative eTrac product has been spun off into its own company, eTrac Technologies. Alpharetta, GA, February 1, 2021 -- Datatrac Corporation, an industry leader in courier technology solutions has announced a spin-off of their ground-breaking product, eTrac, into a new company, now called eTrac Technologies. Datatrac’s specialization in last mile business operations was the genesis behind eTrac. Datatrac’s focus is regional and local last mile carriers while eTrac’s audience is primarily shippers, 3PL’s and freight forwarders. This audience differentiation along with eTrac’s rapid growth have led the Founder [...]

Beacon Provides a Streamlined TMS and a Competitive Edge with Retailers and Shippers EAU CLAIRE, WI — Award-winning advanced dispatch software Elite EXTRA, and industry-leading operating system Datatrac, announce the launch of Beacon, a combined last mile delivery solution for couriers. Beacon seamlessly integrates data from order flow and delivery to full back-office functionality, providing a full-featured TMS solution. The one-stop-shop offers a scalable, modern infrastructure, including rate-charge, invoicing and settlement information, as well as automated dispatching, optimized routing, real-time visibility, driver communication and contact-free deliveries. Additionally, couriers will [...]

Everyone now lives in a mobile world. With advanced smartphones and tablets, we’re no longer tied to a desktop or a laptop to do business. And while Datatrac Web can be accessed from a phone or a tablet, the screen layouts haven’t been optimized for a variety of screen sizes. You and your customers can soon enter orders and track the driver’s location from their tablets and cell phones. We have received a considerable amount of feedback that our customers and their customers would like to access Datatrac Web from all of [...]

Visibility has always been important to the Last Mile carrier and their customers.  Our systems have long had the ability to send PODs to the customer via email. Release 6.8.432 includes the ability to send the signature image in the email as well as the POD name for each pickup and delivery. Datatrac’s VP of Operations David Norman says, “We know how important visibility is to our customer’s customer, and having to check a website for an image just isn’t enough to satisfy some operational requirements these days.  We added [...]

With the volatility of fuel prices over the last several years, keeping up with fuel surcharge calculations and pricing has become a challenge for the first mile/last mile carrier. Several of our customers came to us with the request of using outside fuel index services to calculate the surcharge. Since the Datatrac rating module is comprehensive and flexible, we spent a significant amount of design time working with customers to be sure we included the same flexibility for fuel surcharge rating. The module includes multiple variables for calculating the fuel [...]