# Randy Kowalski, VP of Operations at Midland Express Freight — read of TruckingVoice, June 7 2026

> 15 years in trucking ops, currently running a 47-truck regional flatbed carrier out of Columbus, Ohio. We move industrial steel and machinery. After-hours calls are a real problem for us.

## How I got here

Googled "after hours dispatch answering service trucking" because our answering service dropped two load inquiries last month. Found a thread on a carrier Facebook group where someone mentioned AI voice tools. Clicked through four or five links before landing here. This one had the clearest headline of the bunch so I stayed.

## What I clicked first

The headline "Stop Losing Loads to Missed After-Hours Calls" landed because that is exactly the search I just typed. And then immediately I saw "Try it Live" which I clicked, because that is the only thing that matters to me. I want to hear whether this sounds like a real dispatcher or like the IVR hell I'm already escaping.

I did not hear anything. There was no demo audio that played. Maybe it broke on my end. Maybe "Try it Live" goes somewhere that requires signup. Either way, I bounced off that pretty fast.

## Where I paused

This line: "Sounds like a real dispatcher, not a robot. Shippers trust it. Conversion stays high."

I paused because that is a very confident claim and I have heard it from every chatbot vendor since 2019. What I want to know is: what does "conversion stays high" mean, measured against what baseline, and who verified it. A shipper calling us at 11pm on a Friday is already half-committed to finding someone who picks up. Conversion at that point is mostly just "did anyone answer." So what exactly is this converting better than.

## What I distrusted

The pricing section completely broke my understanding of what this product is.

"Browse Free. Unlock for $5. Adopt for $99. Operate with us, custom."

Then at the bottom: "Estimates only · no live customer revenue claimed."

That last line is a gut punch. This is not a product I can buy and plug into Samsara tomorrow. This is a product idea being sold as a dossier. The $99 gets me "working code starter, brand assets, copy library." I am a carrier operator. I do not want a code starter. I want the thing running on Monday.

The "Built by Wishdeal Studio" and the sidebar showing other ideas like "Brand Voice Consistency AI" and "Brief AI" confirmed it. This is an idea shop selling blueprints. I clicked in thinking I was buying a service and I am actually looking at a pitch deck marketplace.

That is not necessarily a scam but it is a very jarring bait-and-switch when the top of the page reads like an active SaaS product.

## What would convince me

Show me one real carrier, name and dot number optional but fleet size required, who ran this for 90 days. Tell me how many after-hours calls came in, how many were qualified by the agent, how many turned into actual booked loads. I want a number like "14 loads that would have gone to voicemail." Not conversion rate. Loads. Money.

Also: tell me what the actual monthly cost is to run the voice agent. Not the dossier. The service. I need to compare it against my $800/month answering service.

## What I'd ask in an email reply

1. Is there a carrier actually running this right now, or is this a build that needs a buyer to bring to life? Be straight with me.

2. If I adopt the $99 package, how long until something is actually answering calls? Who builds it, who hosts it, who is responsible when it drops a call or misqualifies a load?

3. The page lists Samsara and McLeod as integrations. Have these been tested in production or are they on the roadmap? Because my Samsara setup has some custom fields and I have been burned by "integration" meaning "we can export a CSV."

## Verdict: on-the-fence

The pain point is real and the feature list is sensible. But the product does not exist yet in any form I can operate, and the page does not tell me that until I read the fine print. If someone emailed me directly and led with "we're looking for a carrier partner to co-build this and split economics with us," I would probably get on a call.

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*Memo by skeptic persona, generated 2026-06-07. Studio breaks own self-grading loop.*