For current PCS Express customers
Dispatch, Reimagined by
AI
See how Cortex brings AI-powered planning and dispatch into the platform you already trust.
Dispatch Now Powered by Cortex AI Built Into the System You Trust
Cortex AI is embedded directly inside an all-new Dispatch Manager — using all your data and historical information from Express. Smarter dispatch decisions, less manual work, and real-time visibility, built right into the platform your team already runs on every day.
Let AI Do the Busywork
Automate the repetitive parts of dispatch — load entry, driver scheduling, manual assignment — so your team spends time on decisions that matter.
Better Data, Better Dispatch
AI-powered fleet optimization that uses 36+ data points to assign the right truck, driver, and route — maximizing your freight economics, increasing driver satisfaction, improving asset utilization, and delivering a better experience for your customers.
Real-Time Recommendations
Every load, every driver, ranked and ready — with the reasoning shown, never a black box.
Better Data, Better Dispatch 36+ Data Points, Tuned to How You Run
Pickup proximity, deadhead, home-time, backhaul potential — every factor behind a driver recommendation is visible and adjustable. Set your own thresholds, enforcement rules, and penalties. Nothing is hard-coded to someone else's fleet.
- Home-time bias — soft nudge, hard block, or time-based escalation as a driver's days-from-home grow. You choose how strict it gets.
- Deadhead & backhaul potential — weighted into every recommendation, not calculated separately after the fact.
- Fully configurable weighting — dial each factor up or down, save it as your carrier's default, and adjust it any time as your business changes.
100% Web-Based. No Install, No Downtime.
Cortex runs entirely in the browser — desktop, laptop, or tablet, no client to install or update.
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See It in Action Cortex Corner with Danielle Villegas
A walkthrough from our Chief Product Officer — AI-powered dispatch, driver assignment, and what's next for Cortex.
Load Opportunity Manager Never Miss an Opportunity
Every load, captured and ranked automatically — so your team spends time on the freight that matters most.
Make Smarter Decisions Every Score Shows Its Work
No black boxes. Every opportunity gets a full breakdown — revenue per mile, margin per mile, cost, rate variance — scored against the benchmarks your team sets, with a pass/fail on every metric. If Cortex ranks it, you can see exactly why.
This is where Opportunity Manager earns its keep: instead of your team eyeballing rate confirmations and hoping the math works out, every load is scored the same way, every time, against the margins you define as acceptable. The highest-margin freight is ranked to the top automatically, so your team sees the loads worth chasing first — and spends less time on the ones that aren't.
Capture
Every load opportunity lands in one ranked queue — no more digging through email, load boards, and EDI feeds separately to find what's worth chasing.
Score
Revenue per mile, margin per mile, and cost, checked automatically against the profitability benchmarks your team sets — not gut feel.
Prioritize
The highest-margin freight surfaces first, so your dispatchers spend their time chasing the loads that actually move the needle on profit.
Live in the video above: searching the DAT One load board directly inside Opportunity Manager — origin, destination, equipment, and deadhead radius, no separate login.
What's Inside Cortex One Platform, Built to Grow With You
Included in this upgrade
Dispatch Manager
AI-ranked driver assignment, one-click dispatch.
Load Opportunity Manager
Capture, score, and prioritize every load automatically.
Backhaul Booster
Find your return leg before you even ask.
Dispatch Research
Ask your data anything, get an answer instantly.
Dispatch is where the Cortex upgrade starts. Ask your CSM what's next.
Want the full picture for your fleet?
Your CSM can walk you through what's included and what's next.
How It Works Three Steps. Your Business Never Stops.
Sandbox, built from your data
Cortex stood up on a copy of your production environment. Nothing touches your live operations.
Test it with real loads
Your team builds and dispatches real-world loads alongside our product specialists, before anything goes live.
Configure, then train
Fine-tuned to your business, then a full team training led by our implementation experts.
Once you're live, Cortex and Express work in real time together — see how the data flows →(opens in new tab)
Every upgrade is tailored to your fleet. Your CSM will build a plan and pricing specific to your business.
Questions Frequently Asked
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