Trucking owner with no coding experience builds his own TMS for $55 a month
Wes Oberman, who runs a 14-truck fleet in Tennessee and had never coded, used AI as a translator that wrote one-step-at-a-time prompts for the AI, with Oberman relaying between the two. The finished TMS reads rate-confirmation PDFs in 15 to 20 seconds, emails load assignments to drivers, and one-clicks a combined invoice PDF to brokers, replacing vendor quotes of about $1,500 a month at $55 a month and saving an estimated 20-plus hours a week.
20 hourssaved
How it works
- Describe the wanted TMS to the AI
- The AI writes simplified step-by-step prompts for the AI
- Owner relays prompts and feedback between the two models
- System goes live as a subdomain of the company website
- Dispatcher uploads a rate confirmation PDF
- The AI extractor fills every field, including broker stipulations, in 15 to 20 seconds
- Dispatcher verifies the fields
- Load assignment emails the driver
- POD and BOL are collected
- One click combines invoice, rate con and POD into a single PDF emailed to the broker
Why it’s worth knowing
A fleet owner who had never coded got two rival AIs to build his software by relaying prompts between them, asking for slower, simpler steps whenever he got lost.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on ccjdigital.com. See the original ↗