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Settlement program cuts a bookkeeper's 12-hour Thursday to under one hour

Alongside his homemade TMS, Wes Oberman built a settlement payroll program that calculates every driver's pay automatically. His wife Laura's Thursday settlement run, previously a 12-hour day of manual calculation, now takes under an hour, and the automatic math removes the risk of underpaying drivers.

11 hourssaved

How it works

  1. Owner describes the settlement rules to the AI and the AI
  2. Settlement program is built alongside the TMS
  3. Load and pay data is pulled from the TMS
  4. Program calculates each driver's settlement automatically
  5. Bookkeeper reviews and releases the payments

Why it’s worth knowing

The payroll program was a side build of a trucking dispatch system, and it erased an entire 12-hour workday every week.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on ccjdigital.com. See the original ↗

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