Just found out the nominal fee isn't all that nominal. $2 a week.
"You will also have a weekly deduction from your settlement for $2.00 which is the cost that QC charges us to host this program."
I can't help but ask if QC isn't charging Panther a total of $2 per week for the service, since that's about what it costs QC to provide it (if even that much, to be honest about it). Whether QC is charging Panther a total of $2 per week and then Panther is charging $2 per week per truck on top of that, or QC is actually charging Panther $2 per week per truck, either way it's astonishingly over priced, especially if you factor in the $35 per week we're already paying for the QC.
"Please note that if you have ever lost out on a load due to not being notified, capturing a single good load due to SMS messaging pays for itself for the year."
Sorry, nice try, but $104 a year, or more than $.40 per routine message (assuming an average of 5 per week) is way too much cost for the insurance needed in the hopes of capturing that one good load that might have been missed.
Flip that coin, and the increased efficiency in time saved to dispatch by not having to make phone calls for each load, plus the decrease in long distance phone charges, and it would pay for the entire system for a year within a week or two.
