Profit Tools Fast-Tracks Features to Help Carriers Boost Sales

    NEWMARKET, N.H.--May 1, 2001--Freight transportation software developer, Profit Tools, Inc., released several new features designed to help commercial trucking companies increase sales. The release has been a top priority since January, when the US economy showed continued signs of slowing down. The new features include sales quoting, tracking and reporting capabilities as well as tools to expand services to shippers, such as custom shipment reporting and analysis, new billing options and expanded information available via Profit Tools' online customer service component, LiveLoad.Net.
    "We've made sure Profit Tools users have a competitive advantage in getting new business and in keeping existing accounts," said Profit Tools president, Brian K. Widell. "In addition to providing tools for cutting costs, we're committed to helping carriers increase business volume overall as well as with replacing business lost through attrition or economic conditions."
    One of the new features, Sales Quoting, enables users to capture freight, rate and special service details and print quotes on their own custom forms. The quotes become order-entry templates when the business is secured, and the orders are compiled into commission reports for the salespeople. Custom reports can be run for the shipper, analyzing costs and efficiencies for particular runs, or to encourage them to add more freight for economies of scale.
    Profit Tools customer David Valdez, owner of US Cavalry Transport in Miami, FL, is using the features aggressively to boost sales: "I show potential customers all of the information I can give them with Profit Tools reports and LiveLoad.Net. It gets their attention and our company gets their business. The value is high enough from my customers' viewpoint that we have been able to charge them for these expanded services," Valdez said.

    About Profit Tools, Inc.

    Based in Newmarket, NH, Profit Tools, Inc., (www.ProfitTools.Net) develops leading-edge business, operations and e-commerce software for commercial trucking and freight transportation. They offer configurable, off-the-shelf solutions to TL, LTL, Air-Freight, and Intermodal carriers, as well as freight brokers and agents, enabling them to be flexible and efficient without extensive training or in-house IT staff. Profit Tools' Internet solutions link transportation service providers more closely with their customers and business partners, allowing even the smallest carriers to meet the information requirements of the supply chain.