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This release continues our recent efforts to boost application performance by shifting the generation of reports, imports, and exports to a separate server. Most processes have now been streamlined, with only a few remaining for future improvement.

The major changes were to the "Ticket List" and vehicle work order, and customer terms.

This release has minor changes to dispatching, tax, invoices, and includes a couple customer requests.

The main changes in this release are improved performance and functionality of the Ticket List. We also added the ability to track invoice payments, and a few small features and fixes.

This release had a couple of changes designed to improve application performance and some functionality to allow using the “Ticket List” for verifying tickets instead of “Tickets by Driver.”

We continued to work on performance on this release and added a few small feature requests.

While we continue to work on performance, this release was mainly to deploy some small feature requests for several customers and fix some small issues we found.

Finished moving reports, imports, and exports to background jobs on a separate service so they don’t slow real-time operations. Improved performance of process that adds a truck to a job. This process was one of the processes that was causing intermittent hanging of the application.

Most of our effort over the past month has been determining the causes of the intermittent extended delays and correcting them. One of the main issues was the generation of large reports. To fix this, we are moving the processing of reports, imports, and exports to a separate server.

This was a major update where we upgraded to the latest Microsoft .NET Core 9 framework for enhanced security and performance. This upgrade also included replacing numerous libraries. We included a few small requests along with this.

Added ability to carry remaining work on job forward. Added Lease Hauler Rate to the ticket export and a few other small additions and fixes.

Changes to dispatch creation, fuel surcharge, material costs, minimum freight amount, and added tax code to Tickets by Driver.

This update included added certifications for sub-contractors and added the ability to pay drivers for a job-based pay rate.

This release was mainly minor bug fixes. It added columns to some reports, and made the remit to on invoices display in window envelopes.

Minor release to fix an issue with some users not being able to see their revenue reports and charts.

This release was mainly aimed at improving the functionality for those companies with the “Separate Freight and Material Items” feature enabled and a few customization requests.

Improved the reliability of the native driver apps, Improved the lease hauler request process, and added zone-based functionality.

This release includes functionality for adding miscellaneous charges to jobs, separates freight and material items, and includes chat improvements.

The biggest improvements were to the Lease Hauler Portal and Ticket list. There were numerous other minor changes related to the Schedule, Quotes, Truck Dispatch List, Truck, and Customer Portal.

Release 2.7.1.35 has minor changes to the Driver Pay Statement, Lease Hauler Requests, Tickets, and the Schedule.

Minor update mainly to improve some of the recent changes to the live updating of the dispatch status. There were also changes related to "Time on Job", "Stagger Time", and "Pay Statement" generation.

Minor update to auto update status of dispatches on the schedule, to include a new invoice template, and fix some minor issues.

Minor update with changes to the "Tickets by Driver" and the "Transaction Pro Export".

Much of this release was improving the caching functionality to improve performance and remove stale data. The other main changes involved adding default pricing tiers and showing the status of dispatches on the schedule so that dispatchers won’t have to go to the “Truck Dispatch List” as often.

Release 2.5.1.26 was mainly aimed at improving performance and fixing issues in the Native Driver App.

This release includes a new portal that you can make available to you lease haulers (sub-contractors). It also includes some changes related to retail tax, adds an invoice flow, and fixes to reduce the occasional times that the app hangs for a minute.

Release 2.4.17 includes various enhancements and fixes, such as specifying truck/trailer categories on quotes and orders, adding TruckCode token for SMS dispatches, validating date inputs for overflow errors, adding icons for truck scheduling, and improving ticket validation. Additionally, it introduces invoice changes, PWA driver app enhancements, performance improvements, and miscellaneous bug fixes.

Release 2.4.16.0 is a minor update. In addition to some code cleanup and performance improvements, the main changes were to support small customer requests and changes to improve the flow of the application.

Release 2.4.14 provides information on new Dump Truck Dispatcher feature, Driver Notes. Furthermore, some updates on Orders and Tickets feature.

Release 2.4.13 adds the ability to generate and print internally generated tickets.

Release 2.4.12 provides information on improvements regarding test security and upgrades on any weaknesses found with Dump Truck Dispatcher.

The focus of this release was mainly to add a customer portal. More columns were added to the ticket export. Other minor changes and fixes.

This release focuses on enhancing flexibility for multi-office setups. Dispatching was refined to mark trucks as done based on dispatch schedules. Notifications for load completion now rely on driver confirmation. Truck details now include make, model, and license plate information. The multi-office configuration allows optional office selection for data viewing and distinct logos for each office on reports. Cross-office truck scheduling replaces sharing, and multi-office exports feature 'Truck Office' and 'Driver Office' fields. A new payment structure enables load-based driver compensation. Invoice exports and the Driver Activity Report were improved, and driver profiles now show license state information.

This is a minor release to include some requested items we couldn’t get to in the last release.

This release addresses some requests related to invoices and exporting invoice data. We also added the ability to see the number of dispatches related to a job on the schedule.

Most of this release is aimed at helping those that have many different types of trucks and trailers that they schedule and dispatch. It will allow you to specify the trailers and truck types to use on jobs and let you readily see and change the trailers associated with a truck. If you have different truck types and trailers, you may want to evaluate if you should turn the below mentioned settings on.

Minor release with the main change being adding a white background to the trucks in the truck block if no jobs are scheduled for the truck.

See the latest changes such as the changes to scheduling and changes made to streamline the getting started process.

Minor changes aimed at making changing trucks and driver assignments easier. Improvements to counter sales and invoices.

This release has a few minor changes to 2.4.6. We added caching of the search criteria for tickets and invoices, and changed counter sales to use material only.

The major emphasis of release 2.4.6 was to streamline counter sales for quarries that might be using Dump Truck Dispatcher.

This release was focused on improving usability and adding a way to add jobs to the schedule quickly. Be sure to read below to find out where your “Send Orders to Drivers” menu went. Orders On an order when a customer with a single quote is selected, we used to assume that this was the […]

The major emphasis of this development cycle was to add fuel surcharge functionality and to add summary KPIs to the dashboard.

This release is mainly focused on upgrading the frameworks to the latest versions provided by Microsoft for performance and security improvement. We removed the ability to set custom colors because this was causing some conflicts with the default styles.

Improvements to “Tickets by Driver” While some found the new “Tickets by Driver” screen added to the last release was useful, we also heard that it would be better if it allowed you to see which tickets had been verified. We made major changes to improve the performance of this screen. Below is a screenshot […]

Ticket List Added a “Revenue” column to the “Ticket List”. Added an “Order Date” column to the Ticket list so it now shows both Ticket Date and Order Date. This allows you to see when they differ such as in a pre-load. Invoicing Added the ability to download a zip file with all the ticket […]

Version 2.2.11 of Dump Truck Dispatcher has numerous scheduling and ticket management improvements. It also includes a lease hauler (sub-contractor) statement and a change to how lease hauler rates are entered.