Demand Score
Should you build for this job? Every number below is a count of something we collected.
People in this job already buy software for it. Only 15 well used tools serve it, so there is room on the shelf.
Three components, each capped. How we compute this.
| Component | Score |
|---|---|
| People here already buy software | 31 / 35 |
| Room left on the shelf | 19 / 35 |
| How easy the buyer is to find | 24 / 30 |
From Capterra, filtered to products specific to this category rather than general business software.
| Tool | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Motive | 4.5 | 1,688 |
| ShippingEasy | 4.8 | 1,133 |
| Samsara | 4.5 | 1,018 |
| ShipStation | 4.6 | 960 |
| Freightview | 4.7 | 743 |
| Elite EXTRA | 4.7 | 388 |
| PCS TMS | 4.2 | 244 |
| MyCarrierTMS | 4.7 | 108 |
| Geotab | 4.4 | 99 |
| Tai TMS | 4.4 | 77 |
| Alvys TMS | 4.4 | 51 |
Taken from 53 records: what employers hiring for this job ask for, ranked by how often they ask. This is the buyer describing the work in their own words, not us describing it.
| Employers ask for | Postings |
|---|---|
| Team development | 12 |
| Staff scheduling | 12 |
| Team scheduling | 10 |
| Customer communication | 9 |
| Team training | 9 |
| Road transportation operations | 8 |
| Coaching | 8 |
| Performance feedback (performance evaluation method) | 8 |
| Process management | 7 |
| Time management | 7 |
| Supply chain transportation management | 7 |
| Team member evaluation | 7 |
| Team motivation (leadership skill) | 7 |
| Operations coordination planning | 7 |
This category serves one job: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers, 213,000 of them in the US, earning a median of $102,010. Employment and wage figures are from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Named from live job postings. They already pay a salary to do this work by hand, which makes them the most reachable first buyers.
These are estimates, from Google advertiser data, and they are not part of the score. Everything else on this page is a count of records we collected.
| People searching for transportation management software each month | 2,900 |
| What advertisers pay for a click | $66.3 |
| The priciest click we found: transportation management software for brokers | $74.86 |
Whether the tools above are bad enough to displace. Star ratings cannot answer it: every category we measured averages between 4.25 and 4.71 stars, because vendors ask happy customers for reviews. We would rather say so plainly than guess at it. What we tried.
This one says build, which means the evidence is there. It does not mean it is easy, and it is not a customer. The next step is talking to ten people who hold this job and getting one of them to say yes to paying you.