To automate matching loads with drivers and real-time load tracking, Kreilkamp Trucking (reefer and dry freight) implemented Trimble application programming interfaces (APIs), including GPS location, available hours, drive time remaining to delivery, live traffic conditions and other personal factors tied to the customers and employees. The data and analytics provide the ability to generate more accurate predictions of when a driver will arrive and, if the driver is going to arrive late, Kreilkamp can switch the load and remain on time. If the driver is going to arrive early, Kreilkamp checks with the customer for an earlier delivery appointment or passes the load on to a driver who will arrive with less time waiting for an unload. The results enabled better customer relationships, increased driver retention and boosted revenue from improved utilization.
The Four Seasons Family of Companies includes four separate organizations including produce hauling and warehousing, each with their own unique transportation needs. The strategic decision to implement integrated Trimble solutions allowed them to realize benefits that were previously out of reach, including centralizing internal transportation planning, automating processes, improving analytics and business visibility, maintaining fleet assets, efficiently performing fleet execution and differentiation to customers by using state-of-the-art technologies. In 2019 alone, the organization is on pace to achieve more than $1.4 million in benefits, including additional revenue gains for its brokerage division, labor savings from process automation, improved business analytics, and the development of new revenue generating business opportunities for the organization.
Dieseltech, which provides comprehensive truck and trailer repair services, needed a solution to keep pace with their business. Many existing processes were manual, including a punch clock, calculating labor fees, determining profit margins and handwriting parts lists and work orders. This led to unbilled jobs and lost revenue, along with negative inventory variances. After adopting TMT Service Center, Dieseltech has seen a wholesale shift in how they do business. From improving their bottom line through better inventory management and reduction in paperwork processing, to empowering them to provide a comprehensive solution to fleet maintenance and repair for fleets of all sizes, Dieseltech’s implementation of TMT Service Center allows them to enhance their customers’ experience and help them to better manage their equipment.
Through the implementation of multiple Trimble solutions, Fortune Transportation, a reefer fleet, has achieved tangible results in improving the safety of its entire operations. With Trimble in-cab solutions, Video Intelligence, TMS and Asset Maintenance products, Fortune can more easily share data across its organization to ensure the optimal performance of its drivers, vehicles and equipment to improve safety, reduce breakdowns and make the road better for everyone with whom they share the road.
From 2016 to 2018, tank truck carrier Crestwood Transportation underwent a transformation to adapt to challenges caused by weakened demand and downward price pressure resulting from declining crude oil prices as global supply exceeded demand. Business processes were re-engineered and multiple integrated Trimble solutions were implemented and leveraged to improve efficiencies and increase profitability. Cost savings are on track to reach nearly $1 million as a result of reductions in fuel costs, cellular costs, software costs and others through the use of Crestwood’s holistic use of multiple integrated Trimble solutions.
