Every day the Metrogistics staff works hard at making sure all gate passes are ready at auction for our transporters and all release documents are in place. Arranging these two documents can mean the difference between a miserable transport experience for our vendors and delays for our customers or a smooth experience for all involved. Having hours of operation outlined on all paperwork with proper contact numbers and names also helps in making the moves as easy and simple for everyone! If you’re hauling vehicles for us be sure to check your paperwork for these critical items and if you’re a customer please pass along all gate pass info and release documents to ensure the smooth transport for all involved!
Importance of Gate Passes and Release Forms
September 3rd, 2010
Mobile Site Is Up
September 1st, 2010We have our mobile.metrogistics.com site up and running. You can now visit MetroGistics on your mobile device for vehicle shipping quotes anytime. Simple and easy front end app for you to enjoy! More releases this upcoming month, stay tuned..
Carrier Relationships
August 31st, 2010Today we had a load get dropped off at St Louis Auto Auction by one of our favorite carriers – Alliance. Elbis who doubles as owner/driver had a chance to stop by the MetroGistics offices. It is great to meet up with guys like Elbis, he is a pleasure to work with, works his butt off, and really strengthens our carrier portfolio! I was also really excited to get him one of our new MetroGistics polo’s.
If any of our carriers are ever in the St Louis Metro area please let us know, we would jump at the chance to show you our office and to meet our team.
Thanks Elbis and look forward to getting you many more loads down the road!
MetroGistics Saying Thanks to our Carrier Network: $100 Winner
August 30th, 2010We wanted to announce the winner to this month’s $100 drawing. We had 22 carriers send in pictures of their trucks, some great looking shots. We really appreciate the time you took to send these in, we are constructing a bulletin board in our office with all these truck pictures to go up on.
This Month’s winner of the $100 goes to: Spring Creek Auto Transport out of Montrose, IL
A few other items:
1. The theme for next months drawing will be pictures of North America. If you have a cool picture from your travels out and about while hauling cars, go ahead and send them in and you will be eligible for the Sept drawing for $100. Send to info@metrogistics.com!
2. Ask our dispatchers to add you to our preferred carrier lists or simply send us an email with where your trucks will be and we will try to get you a load. You can send an email to info@metrogistics.com at anytime to get added to our preferred carrier list.
3. Our carrier login section of our website showing paperwork received and payment issue date should be completed sometime in Sept!
The 22 carriers that sent in pictures are below, thanks again for helping us decorate the office a bit:)
Leftlane Motorsports
Kains Auto Transport
Sancrest Specialized
Allied Automotive
Buster Transport
Arrow Auto Transport
Dave Kitchen
Bountry Recovery
Nationwide Autogistics
TTT Auto Transport
Gerdes Transportation Services
Ron Dinga Transport
SpringCreek
Bullet
OffnOn Transport
Mullins Trucking Company
Paradise Auto Transport
Sweger Auto Transportation
A&M Auto Transport
Zack Car Trans
ASAP Auto Transport
Heins Vehicle Transport
Thanks again and drive safe out there!
Your friends in business,
The MetroGistics Staff!
Automated Quoting Application
August 16th, 2010No matter if you’re a local used car dealer, or a large remarketing company you will have the opportunity to seamlessly get a quote through our site with a few clicks of the mouse. Not only will you be able to get a quote but you will be able to track and trace your vehicle shipment as it moves across the country or around the block.
Nationwide auto shipping is getting a lot smarter with MetroGistics and we want to remain on the cutting edge of using the best technology to support our business. From GPS tracking, to automated status updates via text messages we will keep our drivers connected and our customer in the loop all the way along the process of the vehicle shipping chain. Looking like a 4Q 2010 release to have all these new technologies in place. Keep checking back for updates!
Tough Vehicle Transport Areas
August 13th, 2010Our sales team is quickly realizing that there are certain areas of the country that make it difficult on our dispatchers to move cars into and out of. One move as of late was out of town called Gaylord which is in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan. Every transport company runs into these tough areas. If you have had a difficult dispatch area in the past year that you would like to share let us know.
Transportation Management Systems-CargoTel
August 11th, 2010Wanted to pass along some information on our transportation management system – CargoTel. We have been working with the CargoTel staff for over three years now and they have really developed a strong product for the vehicle transportation marketplace. They give us complete flexibility and really make dispatching freight a breeze. Front end is very user friendly and the backend functionality is very powerful. If you are thinking about outsourcing your transportation management system and want an honest opinion on Cargotel please let me know. Scott-Managing Partner MetroGistics-314.571.6235
Web Traffic Magnet
August 9th, 2010Reading a few new books on SEO techniques, this one, Web Traffic Magnet is a pretty useful little guide to understanding some simple principles on driving traffic to your site. Im getting my feet wet on understanding how this all works, very interesting stuff to say the least. If anyone has any tips or tricks dont be shy to pass them along.
-Scott
Gaining
August 2nd, 2010We had our biggest one day of shipping to date! Earning the business the old fashion way, good ole customer service and getting the job done right and on time!
New Carrier Management Technology on the Horizon
July 30th, 2010We are very excited about a few technology releases we have coming due the next two months. Giving carriers access to loads, statuses, and most importantly when they will be paid all available within their own unique dashboard on our site will be a very valuable tool for them. Check back soon carriers for this functionality to be released!
Be safe out there,
Your MetroGistics Staff
