My Office Backbone LLC was founded by Roger Collins, its CEO.
Mr. Collins founded LinkAmerica Corporation, a dry-van full truckload carrier, in 1997 and was its CEO until selling it in June 2011 to a private equity group.
Under his leadership it grew to be ranked #38 on Transport Topics list of dry-van truckload carriers operating in excess of 1,000 trucks.
Mr. Collins career in trucking began in 1987 when he purchased a 27 truck fleet based in Fort Worth Texas. Since then he has purchased and sold several carriers.
Mr. Collins is a 1975 graduate from Princeton University’s School of Electrical Engineering (which at that time included its computer science program).
Mr. Collins has always enjoyed utilizing computers to improve productivity and management decisions. Mr. Collins obtained his MBA from The Wharton School in 1977.
During his ownership of LinkAmerica, Mr. Collins could not find a software system that integrated all aspects of a trucking company into one product
with a common database and provided a user interface that anyone at all familiar with their job function whether in recruiting, safety, sales, load planning,
dispatch, billings, settlement, fuel optimization or maintenance could learn by just using the product. So to meet this need, he hired a team of programmers and developed one.
When the private equity group purchased LinkAmerica, Mr. Collins was retained as CIO. The company merged with another larger carrier December 31, 2012 and switched to the larger carrier’s system.
As part of his separation agreement, Mr. Collins purchased all intellectual property including software that had been developed by LinkAmerica and retained the company’s key programmers.
Today, that software has been split into a variety of products that are designed to complement a carrier’s existing software platform to enhance the carrier’s abilities.
While not actively being marketed as a package, it can also still be purchased as a comprehensive solution for a carrier or brokerage firm’s needs.
My Office Backbone’s products are designed as a SaaS (software as a solution) product. They run on My Office Backbone’s servers, but appear to the user as if they are
running on their local computer. That enables the product to be platform independent. Users running windows PCs, Tablets, or iOS devices all have equal ability to run Backbone’s products.
It also ensures that users are always on the latest release.
My Office Backbone also specializes in system integrations with other software platforms. We have extensive integration expertise and will integrate with any product that
runs on a SQL server or has the ability to integrate through FTP or Web services. We have even built custom integrations using nothing more than email.
Customers get the sophistication of a product that was built by a carrier for a carrier and not by a software company for what they thought carriers needed.
Customers also get the benefit of Mr. Collins’ extensive experience in running a large truckload carrier.
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