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Mr. Dot aka @Steven Tittle if I'm still welcome I'll slowly start being more involved again. I've had to focus on my brokering after losing 80% of my business in Q4 along with growing my show & trying to take that to the next level.

I work with a number of larger agent based freight brokerages as a first and final mile carrier. Many of these brokerages have instituted "Advanced" AI systems. On a recent load I kept getting emails from dipatch@loadtap asking for status, basically once an hour. I many times don't respond or just delete these but I knew how important this load was to the agent I am working with so each time I sent a short response. first email I responded "driver in transit to site" hour later I responded "driver picked up" hour after I wrote "driver in route back to our warehouse" Hour later me typing again "shipment in our warehouse" Came into work this morning to an email from the agent: CAN I GET THE STATUS OF MY PICKUP? Did this even get picked up? I forwarded her my emailed responses with the AI system from yesterday. She said I'm sorry I didn't know you were getting these but I don't get that info. Can you just work with me? Then make your system stop emailing me every hour!!!!! What good is this AI system? Maybe I should pay money and setup an AI system that responds to their AI system that way 2 different companies are paying for AI systems that talk to each other but us humans are still in the dark. The only thing "Advanced" here is the pocketbook of the AI company when the humans still have to do the same work, send emails and make phone calls, we were doing before we put in the AI systems!! How stupid can we get? .... don't answer that!!!! lol

The story of inflation & cost to do business continues to get bleaker for our carrier friends out there. With most freight I see on the board barely being above this $2.27 operating cost estimate is the damage more then people are aware of to the carriers? https://www.ccjdigital.com/economic-trends/freight-demand/article/15678318/permile-cost-of-trucking-hit-record-high-in-2023?utm_medium=email&utm_content=06-26-2024&utm_campaign=CM_NL_CCJ+Daily&utm_source=CM_NL_CCJ+Daily&ust_id=3c8edb5b1c3638e951e9bedb13d445f98bb2419a&oly_enc_id=9629J8650390I5N

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