Announcing Dr Dispatch 6

I’m pleased to announce that I have been working on Dr Dispatch 6.0!

Announcing Dr Dispatch 6 was supposed to happen a little sooner but I was sidetracked with a new product (that I will post about below).

A big problem we have witnessed recently is a big slow down in larger databases or with wireless. That was my first priority and I believe I have it fixed.

I’m testing the speed against a 500 meg truck database with 77,000 loads. I’m pleased to report a 10x improvement in speed!

Build 79-81 of Dr Dispatch 5.5 also has a lot of features that were slotted for 6.0 – you can consider those builds a sort of pre-release.

What you can expect in the first release

Here’s what is planned or completed for the first release of version 6:

Massive speed improvement (completed and tested)
Larger screens (min resolution of 1024×768)
Font change/increase for readability
New archive process (no more techs archiving your data)
File imports from text, Excel, Access, and more (20 file types)
Many many tweaks
Better truck side planning/scheduling
Fixing the annoying screen flicker in Trucking Dispatch

The speed improvements are a huge change and a big reason you don’t see a lot of new features slated yet.

Increasing the screen size and changing the base font will make for a much better experience.

Load Board Font Change

What about the future?

Future features/fixes are always changing but I do have a list of must-do things…

Here’s what we have planned beyond the first release:

Drag & Drop File Attachment
Continuation of speed improvements
Administrative Dashboard
Tags
Web Portal Improvements (Tendering, Load Board)
Quickbooks Online Integration
More PeopleNet Integration features
More Mobile for Drivers
Multiple Contacts For Contact Records
And more – much more.

There’s been a big interest in Dr Dispatch going online as a web application.

I’ve begun work on that too!

I’m in the prototype stage. If you’re interested in looking at the final prototype and having a look at the completed application later this year – Sign up Here.

Here’s one proposed screenshot – showing viewing a customer. You’ll notice the address, contacts are missing – but I think you can get the idea on where we’re going.