Software for livestock haulers.
Mule builds dispatch software for livestock haulers: a load board, driver assignment, hired-company logins, and live tracking from pickup to delivery.
What we know about livestock haulers.
Livestock hauling dispatch tends to run on whatever the dispatcher's own memory and notebook can hold: which loads need filling, which driver is free, which yard is waiting on a pickup. That works until the business grows past one person's head, or that person is out sick, or a hired trucking company needs to be brought in and now has to be looped into a system that was never built to include anyone outside the office.
The starting point for a build like this is usually the dispatcher's own handwritten notebook, photographed pages and all. That's not unusual, it's how a lot of this industry runs today, phone calls, memory and paper, right up until a missed load or a driver assigned to the wrong pickup makes the cost of that system visible.
Why a livestock hauler picks Mule.
- 01A load board with Needs filling and Filled, plus week and month views, so nothing depends on one person's memory.
- 02Loads assigned to a named driver, not just a truck, with every order change logged and the other side notified.
- 03Hired trucking companies get their own login, see only their own loads, and assign their own drivers.
- 04Live location and load events from pickup to delivery, with no-login tracking links for a receiving yard.
What livestock haulers usually need.
From livestock haulers.
Do drivers need signal to update a load's status?
The driver app is built to work with a weak or dropped signal on the road and catch up once connectivity returns, so a dead zone on the route doesn't stop a load from moving through the system.
Our whole dispatch process is a notebook right now. Can you actually build from that?
Yes. That's the normal starting point for this kind of build. Photographed notebook pages are enough for us to turn into a load board, driver assignment and tracking.
Who owns the load and driver data once this is built?
You do. It's your dispatch operation's data, your loads, your drivers, your hired companies' assignments. We build the system around your business and you keep the data.
Do we need a website too?
Only if it helps you get found by yards looking for a hauler. It's a smaller, separate line from the dispatch software, never the default push.
How does pricing work for dispatch software like this?
From your actual operation: how many drivers, whether you use hired trucking companies, what you're tracking now versus what's still in a notebook. There's no published price list; you describe it and get a real quote back.