Smooth-lined delivery schedules and the ability to fine-tune truck maintenance are lesser-known ELD benefits being utilized by fleets.<\/p>\n
In the third installment of a four-part series on how ELDs are saving fleets time and money, Fleet Owner reports many shippers are becoming more enlightened to the issues related to capacity constraints and are demonstrating a willingness to work with their carriers to speed up delivery at their facilities, provide a safe, clean environment and treat drivers with more respect.<\/p>\n
\u201cContinued delays at the docks, inaccurate information regarding time and destination, or any issue that may cause a driver to sit waiting for a load longer than they should\u00a0is going to cause carriers to look elsewhere for loads. This market has way more freight than capacity, which will help carriers procure faster freight at higher margins,\u201d Taylor Howerton, head of\u00a0SunTrust Bank\u2019s\u00a0logistics & supply chain industry vertical, told the magazine.<\/p>\n
Will Salter, CEO of\u00a0Paragon Software Systems, which provides routing and scheduling software used by global transportation operations, noted that implementing advanced routing and scheduling software can bring savings of 10-30% in freight operations. The greater variety of data you can feed into it, the more money you are likely to save.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, you might have planned for a 20-minute stop at a delivery location, but the stop is consistently taking 90 minutes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeeding that data back into future plans improves the process. Ideally, to continually maximize route planning efficiency, you establish a constant feedback loop on any given route, taking captured data \u2014 whether it\u2019s simply hours driven or tracking information \u2014 and adjusting the next route plan accordingly, over and over. In other words, integrating vehicle tracking systems with routing and scheduling software is a good way to achieve visibility and future efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs more carriers begin to share data from their ELDs, there is greater overall visibility into the supply chain, which benefits everyone from driver to consumer,\u201d said Eric Witty, vice president of product at\u00a0Trimble Transportation, which provides integrated onboard computing and mobile communications systems enabling fleets to get data-driven business intelligence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accuracy of the data used to make decisions and move freight is leading to better performance and productivity for all.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition, most ELD systems are capable of capturing data on vehicle performance, faults, and efficiency as well as driver behavior, performance, and efficiency. The opportunities for gain beyond basic ELD functionality include vehicle fault management and maintenance, fuel tax data capture, vehicle fuel efficiency, visibility of vehicles\/load location, and automated load ETA information for customers,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of these items might fall into the category of \u2018intended\u2019 uses of ELDs, but since many are purchasing ELDs simply to be compliant, those users gain many other helpful benefits in turn.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the opinion of Ozzie Flores, marketing and product manager,\u00a0Teletrac Navman, which provides cloud-based GPS fleet-tracking software, fleets that adopted a basic ELD system ahead of the deadline were taking steps to be compliant, but those systems don\u2019t necessarily offer the same wide-reaching capabilities as a more robust telematics solution, or ELDs integrated with fleet management software.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs fleets get more comfortable with their technology and data, it\u2019s likely they\u2019ll look for more areas throughout their entire fleet and organization for improvements and efficiency gains,\u201d he said. \u201cThese add-on features or fleet management technology systems can allow a fleet to monitor things like driver speed, driver performance, idling, harsh braking, maintenance, fuel usage, engine hours, and more.<\/p>\n
\u201cData-driven insight into idling, distance traveled, and fuel usage can help a fleet make decisions about fuel expenditures while monitoring driver behaviors and can enable fleet and maintenance managers to create preventive maintenance programs,\u201d Flores continued. \u201cAs fleets see the advantages and ROI, they can work directly with telematics partners to identify other use cases as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read the first two parts in the Fleet Owner series\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Smooth-lined delivery schedules and the ability to fine-tune truck maintenance are lesser-known ELD benefits being utilized by fleets. In the third installment of a four-part series on how ELDs are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,54],"tags":[1288,73,433,75,326,174,1289,1290,98,24],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-conditions","category-technology-equipment","tag-efficiency","tag-elds","tag-electronic-logging-devices","tag-hours-of-service","tag-logistics","tag-productivity","tag-routing","tag-savings","tag-shippers","tag-supply-chain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}