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	Overview and Features
	Benefits


	Wabtrax — Benefits

How WabTrax Pays For Itself
Improved Utilization
Example: If a fleet of 300 cars loading every 30 days averages .5 more trips per year, or a 4% increase in utilization, at an average profit of $250/trip, your company can realize an additional profit of $37500.00 per year. In addition, saving 2 man-hours per day over the course of a year will increase an employee's productivity by 25%.

Fleet Sizing
The data that WabTrax generates will allow you to better determine the best fleet size for your varying commodities. Ultimately, better management of your fleet will allow you to do more with less, which will reduce your tank car leasing costs.

Reduced Excess Empty Miles
The fleet tracing reports are key to reducing your excess empty miles. The better managed the cars are on a day-to-day basis means problem cars are caught and fixed sooner. Additionally, the historical data that WabTrax maintains provides a tool for validating the Railroad data and refuting the excess miles when they are incorrect.

Demurrage
The demurrage report provides the information needed to bill your customer's demurrage. Even if you choose not to send a bill, you now have information that can be used to calculate the costs of doing business with that customer. This information can also be used as leverage in future negotiations.

ETAs & Trip Times
WabTrax ETAs and Trip Times allow you to better manage your supply chain. Shippers can more accurately forecast arrival times and better coordinate loading and unloading schedules with customers and suppliers. This can help reduce costly demurrage expenses and decrease turnaround times. This data can also be used to analyze rail carrier performance.

Why Use A Web-Based Application?
Accessibility - Internet based applications can be accessed from any computer with web access.
Ease of Maintenance - The user is not responsible for the maintenance of the application or the data.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership - Your Company is sharing the cost of application development and enhancements with all of our other Subscribers.
Lower Monthly Fee - Developing WabTrax in this way allows us to deliver a powerful user specific solution to a wide range of users for a low monthly fee.