1. PocketFuelCal
- Price: $1.99
- Description: A fuel surcharge calculator.
- Features:
- Fast and easy to use
- Customizable settings to fit your vehicle
- Calculates with mpg, km/l, and l/100km
- Converts to per mile, per km, and total fuel surcharge
- Loaded with 37 currencies
- Convenient in-app web page displays fuel price index
- Review: A reliable method to protect your profits from fuel price increases. See exactly what a fuel price increase is going to do to your cost per mile, per km, and total. Quickly refer to the DOE fuel price index within the app to check the national average or bookmark any web page of your choice.
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2. Camscanner
- Price: FREE
- Description: A smartphone becomes a portable scanner where all paper documents, receipts, and notes can be archived anywhere, at any time.
- Features:
- Multiple page and batch scanning
- Auto cropping
- PDF creation
- Share via fax, email, and uploads
- Image cropping and image enhancement ensure images are perfectly clear and recognizable
- Review: This tool is easy to use and can be utilized to send in your monthly receipts to a business service provider. Take a picture of all of your receipts and email them into in a batch file right from the app. This time and money saving tool is a must have for every owner-operator on the road.
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3. Beat the Traffic+
- Price: $3.99
- Description: Quickly check road traffic conditions and discover the best route to avoid traffic jams.
- Features:
- Real-time information including average speeds, incidents, and roadwork
- Save common routes of the addresses for your customers or frequently used truck stops
- One-screen access to all saved routes and commute times
- Set up alerts to get warned about traffic delays on saved routes
- Review: User-friendly and worth the money! A great alternative to listening to the radio to find the traffic reports.
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4. ITSTrucker
- Price: FREE. However, ITS requires a $35 monthly membership.
- Description: Search for freight and post your truck on the largest load board in the US.
- Features:
- A quick display of all loads delivering in a specified radius of your home base
- A direct dial feature to call customers from the app
- A direct function from both freight search results and freight detail screens
- The CreditStop Broker and Days2Pay information is available on each load
- Review: ITS is the most frequently used load board and the app has most of the same features from www.internettruckstop.com.
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5. TruckSmart
- Price: FREE.
- Description: Full service advantages for any TravelCenters of America (TA) or Petro location.
- Features:
- Interactive map displaying the TA/Petro sites within 250 miles from your current location
- List of amenities at the TA/Petro sites, including services, restaurants, showers, and parking
- Location list by radius from 50 & 100 miles, in addition to highway and state look up
- Current fuel prices for TA/Petro locations
- Call Roadsquad or site integration (Roadsquad will pass your coordinates to their call center to pinpoint the tech dispatch)
- Available showers listings and lets you reserve a shower
- Available parking listings and lets you reserve a spot
- UltraOne account integration allows you to use points to book a shower or access your points and rewards
- Review: Most truck stop chains have apps to show nearby locations, fuel prices, store specials, and points on loyalty cards. This app has all of those features, plus it shows how many parking spaces are available, lets you reserve a spot, connects with Roadsquad, and allows you to sign up for a shower while sitting in your truck!
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6. Fuelbook
- Price: FREE
- Description: Fuel price locator.
- Features:
- Fast and easy to use
- Updated 6x/day with current fuel prices
- Lists truck stop services
- Lists open parking statuses
- Review: Fuelbook is the only fuel locator app updated 6 times daily to ensure the pricing is current when refueling. Its accuracy is what makes this app a powerful and necessary tool for any trucker who is looking to save on fuel costs.
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7. Google Maps
- Price: Free
- Description: Navigation and mapping service used by over a billion users.
- Features:
- Voice-guided turn-by-turn GPS navigation or public transit, biking, and walking directions
- Find locations with reviews from trusted friends and experts
- Tour cities with 360-degree Street View and see inside restaurants, museums and more
- Sign in to save favorite locations, get tailored recommendations, and access past searches across devices
- Accurate maps in over 200 countries
- Review: With little effort you can use the satellite view to get an aerial view of any address. The detail is so good for most addresses you can see exactly where entrances are and where the truck docks are located.
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8. Weatherchannel
- Price: FREE
- Description: Access real-time weather reports for the best forecasts, emergency alerts, and more.
- Features:
- If your weather conditions (snow or rain) are changing within 6 hours, know the chance of precipitation and the exact time it will happen
- Receive detailed weather forecasts (hourly forecasts, 36 hour forecasts, and 10 day forecasts)
- Utilize fast, accurate, and localized maps with features like past and future radar, weather for you while on the road, severe weather bulletins for storms, and tracking tropical storms and hurricanes.
- Easy location management to edit and save your favorite places. Set up your favorites to take full advantage of our weather widgets and notifications
- Local forecast and popular videos
- Review: It’s a little cumbersome because they have a lot of ads on the free app but the custom alert feature is nice to have while you are on the road.
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9. Skype
- Price: FREE
- Description: Stay connected with friends and family while you are on the road.
- Features:
- Free instant messaging
- Free voice and video calls to all your friends, family, or business contacts
- Low-cost calls to mobiles and landlines
- Free and unlimited video messaging
- Review: Skype's app lets you call other Skype users; regardless of what device they're on, for free. However, video calls work best with a strong Internet connection, and degrade quickly with weaker signals. The clincher is that many people use it, so your friends and family members may already have accounts.
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10. Freightliner Hauler Challenge
- Price: FREE
- Description: In this racing game, you can choose your favorite NASCAR® driving team and Freightliner tractor-trailer in a series of legs for the fastest time.
- Features:
- Maneuver through timed obstacle courses and weave your way through tight spaces and narrow turns
- Follow a leaderboard
- Keep steady, drive safe and run smart, because every inch and mph counts towards your score
- Review: A fun racing game to play that also applies business principles for running a successful trucking business. One nice feature on this game is that it won’t consume your phone battery life like other popular games.
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