Apparently, the answer was “Yes” for Oberman Logistics, an owner-operator trucking company with 14 trucks based in Tennessee. As reported by Angel Coker Jones in Commercial Carrier Journal, “Oberman Logistics owner Wes Oberman created a custom transportation management system using ChatGPT and Claude Code for just $55 per month, automating back-office processes and saving the company 20 to 25 hours each week.”
Oberman evaluated existing TMS solutions in the market, but “none of [them] worked,” he said. “My problem with TMS is they’re all so bloated (having more features than needed). They all look like they were made from the ‘70s. They’re not very intuitive, and man, they cost a lot.”
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As I wrote back in February, two things can be true at once. First, despite the early benefits achieved by Oberman Logistics…
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I chose build over buy as well. There was no software for what I needed, at all! I would have had to buy a 20K system and then get them to modify it for another 16K to do what I needed. Those were the quotes I was getting. No way.