Internet Faxing
 

Anyone using internet fax services, such as efax etc... Likes/dislikes... any recomendations??? I am tired of faxing at a T/S and dealing with the idiot help behind the counters.

I'm using Efax and find no problems with it. I have Verizon wireless Internet for my laptop. I receive Fax's via email, print them, sign, scan then email back to Efax. I've done some experiments and it's right on the money and quick. The sign up procedure was quick and I had my own fax number within minutes. I'm very happy with it.

I use efax, wish I had a scanner I'd use it more.

I use eFax. I know some people who use other services. For receiving you can get a free account. I pay the montly fee and I fax outgoing, too. It's pretty cheap and convenient compared to the truck stop. I used to buy a private mailbox from the Flying J thingy but that got old and never seemed to work when I really needed it!

Faxing Options for Truckers

www.maxemail.com does a great job for me.

I use myfax.com. They are good.

If you have a printer and can connect your phone to your laptop, you can recieve a fax over that, if you have a scanner you can send a fax. Widows has fax capibilities included, just never tried it over the cell, but it works fine with the landline phone, so...?...?...?

I been using Efax for years. I even use a signature stamp I faxed to myself, so I can sign, fill out, and fax off anything that is faxed to me, without having to print it out first.
Sure saves a lot of wasted paper that way too.

I second what Steve said E FAX

Steve why do you print sign and scan..you can save you signature to a stamp and stamp it...been doing it for a year now and no one has ever complained ( because you agree in the contract that photo copies are acceptable ...IE Fax )

I download fill out sign save delete the pages I do not want to send back and fax after you fax do not save changes and everything you saved on the first save will be there

I should have given more detail, I wasn't just talking about the signature. In my case I'm getting carrier agreements that are 15 pages long with tons of stuff that needs filling out. Once I get rolling I'm sure it will just require my stamp.

This will not work. As of 9/2006 there is not a single cell phone on the market that will pick up a call and transmit the data to your computer/laptop. I have been looking for this technowledgy since last year.

You can send faxes no problem at all. Well I should say with minimal problems. There is a tower delay between when the data signals sent from your cell phone reach the fax machine, if that lag is just a little too long the recieving fax will hang up. If that problem don't exist, you can usualy transmit a fax via cell.

The software that is out to connect your phone to the internet via a lap top should install a virtual modem on your pc and this is the modem you select when trying to send a fax.

I use myfax.com - Took minutes to set up like the others, and I have my own fax number. Been perfect for me so far.

Myfax.com
 

I use myfax.com and it works like a charm. Also, it's cheaper than efax and you don't need to download any software. It's true internet faxing.

Does anyone use a scanner versus faxing?

I use both. If you are going to fax out of your truck you're going to need some sort of scanning device.

I'm a computer junky (15 years in pc's before pushing this truck down the road) so my truck is pretty set up. In fact my lap top wasn't powerful enough and since I do graphic editing, and video editing I needed a better machine but didn't want to pay the money for a laptop so I built my home pc right into the truck.

My printer/copier/scanner absalutly rocks. Problem is not all companies (brokers) will take email as a way to recieve data. So you're stuck faxing until the industry is used to guys out here actually using technowledgy.

Some places will take a pdf file if you can scan data in and convert to pdf. Sounds complicate but really it's rather easy. If you download "openoffice.org" it's like MS OFFICE only it's free. you open up the "writer" (equivilant to ms word) you scan your pages into the writer document, click the little pdf button on the menu bar and bingo you have a pdf file that almost anyone can read anywhere, and/or works nicely to fax attached to an email via myfax and or other fax services.

I have Verizon wireless, eFax and a HP printer/scanner/copier and it seems to do the trick. Just one note though, when you scan something in make sure you set to do either grey scale or 1 bit black and white and not 16 million color or you'll end up with a 30 megabyte image.

You still need the traditional fax machine at home if your hooking up with carriers for the first time. You end up receiving 15 to 20 page faxes that need to be filled out and sent back.

Thanks for the info.