“What is very clear from this survey is that the majority of companies, both with smaller trucking operations of under $10 million annually as well as much larger operations exceeding $100 million, continue to plan truck routing and loading manually with very limited use of available information and decision technologies,” says Harvey Donaldson, director of TLI.
Not surprisingly, the surveyed companies indicated dissatisfaction with current route planning, load building, dispatching and tracking processes, and 65% said better planning could cut their transportation costs by 6 to 30%. The top three reasons for continued reliance on manual systems were “complexity of environment” (33%), organizational culture (29%) and overhead cost (24%).
Complete survey results are available online.
