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by nosnih 5889 days ago
I work for a company that does a large volume of business with small, independent trucking companies. This requires sending load confirmation and bill of lading documents that they must have with them in the truck.

Many of these barely have a working fax machine, much less email. We email documents directly whenever we can, and have abstracted faxing away using a print-to-fax server, and incoming faxes to emails. Things have changed quite a bit in the past few years; I would estimate we have close to 50% email adoption among independent truckers. Even still, our systems send hundreds of faxes a day at peak time.