I’m writing this from a jobsite where I just dropped off a half-million dollars worth of rebar, next to a porta-potty, under a sign that says “Use Back Gate.”
There’s no foreman in sight. No one to sign. The wind just blew away the paper ticket. And I’m 99% sure someone will call the office in 48 hours and say:
“We didn’t get the delivery.”
This is the part where I scream into the void.
But before we get to that, let’s rewind.
At some point in the history of material supply, someone said:
“Just get them to sign the ticket.”
And that was the system.
But then people stopped being on site. Or they were on site but “not authorized.” Or the ticket got wet. Or lost. Or signed by someone’s 7-year-old nephew named “Jeff.”
So we added photos.
Now we had:
The truth is, we weren’t documenting deliveries — we were improvising them.
And that’s how businesses get burned.
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This is where two tools enter the chat:
CompanyCam lets you:
Which is great. Until someone says:
“When did we deliver that?”
“Who was the driver?”
“Where are the notes?”
“Why are there 47 photos of drywall and no ticket?”
CompanyCam captures evidence, but it doesn’t create a system.
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TaskTag doesn’t think deliveries are photos. It thinks deliveries are tasks.
Which sounds boring until you realize:
In other words: your delivery is now a verifiable, timestamped, human-proof record.
And that changes everything.
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Now imagine if that same call led to:
“Actually, here’s the task.
Assigned to Juan.
Delivered on 6/28 at 10:14 AM.
Photos attached.
Signed ticket.
Chat log.
Shared with Steve that day.”
Suddenly, the emotional journey is:
Deliveries aren’t just logistics — they’re promises.
And when you don’t have structured proof, you’re just hoping those promises don’t come back to haunt you.
That’s fine for a small team doing 10 deliveries a week.
But for 30 deliveries a day across 15 job sites?
Hope is not a strategy.
Photos are helpful. But photos are not a system.
You need:
TaskTag is the only tool that brings all of that together — without turning your drivers into IT managers or your dispatchers into therapists.
If you want the actual workflow — like how to set up projects, assign tasks, add checklists, upload photos, and share with clients — it’s all here:
👉 TaskTag’s Official Delivery Workflow Guide
This post isn’t that.
This post is just me yelling that your current system might be quietly destroying your team’s sanity.
The real shift TaskTag creates isn’t technological — it’s philosophical:
It’s the boring stuff — like naming tasks well, using checklists, and assigning responsibility — that actually saves your team from chaos.
TaskTag doesn’t make your job flashier. It just makes it sane.
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I’ve lived both lives:
Only one of them lets me sleep at night.
So if you’re still running your delivery operation on text messages, trust, and blurry photos from someone’s camera roll...
You deserve better.
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Start with this:
👉 TaskTag’s Delivery Workflow Guide
And maybe bookmark this post for the next time someone says:
“We never got that.”
You’ll smile. Copy the task link. And send it.
And somewhere, Jeff will weep.
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