Boat Transport Ops

Built from the cab, not a boardroom

I've been hauling boats across the country since 2000. The industry — and the company I drive for, around since 1954 — still runs on paper. Every trip, every inspection, filled out by hand.

So I started building the tools I wished I had, from the truck. Trip sheets first, then boat-condition inspections, then whatever the job needed next — and it kept growing until it covered the whole operation. I offered the entire system to the company I drive for. They didn't want to take it over. So I pulled it back, made it for every boat-transport company, and turned it into a platform anyone in the trade can use.

It runs a transport business end to end: dispatch and trip sheets (loads, drops, escorts, fuel, driver payroll and weekly reports); a money pipeline from quote to bill of lading to invoice with rate tables and PDF paperwork; fleet and maintenance for trucks and trailers (service-due, repairs, document-expiry reminders); safety with incident reports and boat-condition inspections; CRM, a company calendar, and Stripe-billed signup so other companies can subscribe.

And the part that's hardest in this trade: oversize truck routing — real heavy-haul routing with bridge-clearance safety checks, so a 14-foot-tall load doesn't get sent under a 13-foot bridge.

I built the whole thing solo over two decades — by hand, no AI, on a tool called PHPRunner. It worked, but it fought me on the two things that matter most now: AI and SEO. So Tandy Services rebuilt it from the ground up.

Tandy Services AI is baked in — an assistant that actually knows every part of the platform and your company's own data, so it can answer "what's the status of that BOL" or "route this 90-foot yacht," not just chat. And extreme SEO — clean URLs, fully rendered pages, and structured data so the public side (the company directory, available trucks, quotes) can actually be found. Two things the old tool simply couldn't do.