Introducing the Load Master Digital Ticket Tracking System
What is Load Master?
Caribou’s Load Master is an iOS (Apple) app that can work as a stand-alone, in-woods digital ticket entry system or can be integrated seamlessly with Caribou’s back-office “Edge” system.
Loader operators or woods foreman enter ticket information into the iPhone or iPad app through-out the day as loads are being loaded in the woods. If internet connection is available via cellular data or Wi-Fi service, loads are automatically shared with Caribou’s web portal where foresters, land owners, and office personnel can access the data on a real-time basis. Such data visibility allows operations managers to monitor what is occurring at each of the jobs sites, eliminating the need for constant texting and phone calls throughout the day, and streamlining the quota management process.
Who Benefits?
Landowners and Land Managers
Enhance timber security and timber certification tracking through GPS Identification, Sequential Ticket Numbering, and Real-Time Visibility.
Enhance transparency between the Timber Purchaser and the Timber Owner via timely and professional data sharing on what was delivered, when, and to where.
Eliminate head ache and logistics of paper tickets.
Quicker ticket reconciliation to validate stumpage payments received.
Compare actual harvested volumes to estimated volumes.
Can your Loadermen use an iPhone or iPad? Then they can use Load Master. It's that simple!
Logging Contractors
Eliminate illegible and unprofessional hand-written daily log sheets.
Reduce wasted time texting and calling loader operators to determine load counts throughout the day.
Faster correction of operational issues from incorrect merchandising of timber.
No more need to re-key all your tickets from the paper copies.
Woods versus mill reconciliation process ensures you are paid in a timely fashion for every load that leaves the woods.
No more need for travelling around to every job site each Friday morning to collect paper load tickets for processing payment to your subcontractors and employees.
Electronic Load Ticket Entry
Unique auto-assigned Load Numbers and Land-Owner Security Numbers are incremented by one from the prior ticket.
Entries for information like Tract, Mill, Product, and Crew have “pick-list” spinner selectors on the left so that data can be entered easily and consistently from one ticket to the next.
The entries for Tract, Mill, Product, and Crew are carried over from the prior ticket. These carryovers enhance the speed of entry when consecutive tickets are very similar.
The other entries for Truck, Trailer, Driver, Scale Ticket and Weight are reset to blank for each new ticket.
Easy to use by loader operators, site foremen, or truckers.
Printed Load Ticket (Optional)
Replace hand-scrawled Load Trip Tickets with legible Printed Tickets (using Bluetooth receipt printers) or PDFs that can be read from a smart-phone by the scaler or scanned in.
No more handwritten multi-carbon tickets.
Labels and layout are configurable.
Prints multiple copies.
Bar Coding (optional) – Both single and 2-D bar codes are supported.
Load Security and Verification
Each ticket is assigned a Unique Sequential Number (left-most column in the screen shot above) by the app Itself. These numbers cannot be edited by the user.
Unique Load Slip numbers can replace expensive pre-printed Security Sticker System if desired.
The date and time of each load is captured and posted to the electronic load ticket, and up to the web portal.
Loads can be voided on the iPhone or iPad, but cannot be deleted.
Handhelds with GPS will post the GPS location to the load ticket. This provides a way to verify that each load is actually loaded from the tract where the loader is assigned.
Ticket information can be professionally shared with landowners on a daily basis via an electronic format, replacing unprofessional hand-written, coffee stained daily load listings.
Real-Time Load Ticket Visibility
Searchable hosted Web Portal lets foresters keep a tight rein on deliveries across all crews to ensure they are able to meet, but not exceed quota to each destination.
Landowners can see the production coming off their tract on a daily basis.
Logging subcontractors have easy access to digital load ticket information for their own reconciliation process.
Real-time visibility of data means managers can correct merchandising mistakes in the woods before it’s too late.
Eliminate the need to drive around to job sites every Friday morning picking up paper copies of load tickets.
Testimonials
"We are using the Load Master program with 3 of our crews. The 4th crew will start working with it this month. On average we haul 100-125 loads per week. We estimate the time to manually enter the loads is 4-5 hours. Load Master has reduced the time by a little more than half, after less than a full month of use. We have an office staff of two, so reducing ticket entry and proofing time frees them up for other work.
Most of our crew supervisors and drivers have found the system to be very user friendly and embraced it right away. The less tech-friendly ones have had a harder time but are beginning to get the hang of it. As they do, we expect the time to proof and correct errors to be minimal. We usually have several tickets a month that the drivers mix up the tract name when they get to the mill, especially if they haul off of a combination of jobs. I haven't seen those errors in this first month. I believe using the Load Master program makes them more aware, having just entered the load into the system before leaving the woods. I anticipate the supervisors and owners will use the system, especially during tight quotas at mills, to view what has been hauled in real-time to know how to schedule their next loads, within the overall company shared quotas at the mills.
We plan to put the Load Master program to work in chip hauling segment of our business as well. We are using the logging crews as the test subject while we work out the logistics for the numerous drivers and contract haulers, hauling to and from different mills 24/7, each of which has very vast differences in technology experience. When we master that segment of the business, we will save a tremendous amount of time for our staff."
~ Dawn Stott, Stott Wood Company, Inc.
Isn't it Time to Rethink Your Load Ticket Process?
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