BLOG 5

news, information and resources for all couriers

4 May 2010

PEBLS is learning fast!

by Mike George

Pebls, our unique Predictive Entry Behaviour Learning System, is already helping to speed up common tasks on Shed 5.

Not only does she remember each member’s most-used place names and pre-fills them on Shed 5 ‘tickets’, and remember preferences for vehicle sizes, she now searches for available vehicles while the load details are being typed in and suggests suitable matches.

So, in less time than it takes to post a load on an ordinary exchange site you could have found your subby, allocated the load and moved on to your next job!

18 April 2010

More new features on Shed 5

by Mike George

I have added a Predictive Entry Behaviour Learning System (PEBLS) to Shed 5, to make many common tasks easier and quicker.

Pebls’ first job is to remember where members have previously been available for work and suggest place names when they start to enter a new ‘ticket’ for availability.

Pebls remembers the name, county, country, and latitude and longitude of places so the validation step can be skipped, saving time and improving accuracy, which is especially useful for busy mobile couriers.

Pebls works alongside Wilma (Web Intelligent Load Matching Assistant) to provide Shed 5 members with a simple and easy-to-use system, adding to the high level of automation which keeps Shed 5 at the bottom of the price league but at the top of the features league in the courier/freight exchange marketplace.

I have purpose-built Pebls, Wilma and all Shed 5 systems in house, using PHP, MySql, XML and Javascript/Ajax on Shed 5’s new Linux server hosted by Bytemark.

Pebls and Wilma will soon be joined by Fred (Feeback Recording with Entropic Display), a state-of-the-art reputation system to give Shed 5 members yet another top-rate feature at rock-bottom prices.

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