Transfix announced it has launched its first standalone software offering, Fleet Planner, an online tool that gives small and midsized carriers access to a centralized platform for managing fleets and streamlining operations.
According to OOIDA, small and midsized carriers account for an increasingly large and important segment of the American trucking industry, making up around 33% of the market. "Today, while dispatchers within small to midsized carriers struggle with many of the same complexities as much larger carriers – managing driver schedules and preferences, organizing key load information, communicating with drivers – budget constraints have made technology solutions inaccessible, leaving dispatchers to rely on pen and paper spreadsheets to organize information and ensure nothing falls through the cracks as things change," Transfix pointed out.
Fleet Planner offers a singular platform for streamlining dispatchers’ day-to-day operations while giving users the ability to organize fleets, assign loads, including non-Transfix loads, and communicate load details with drivers. Organizations including A&B Carriers and Delivery Management Services, who were early beta users of the software, saw impacts on their operations, including savings of upwards of 525 hours of annualized administrative time, Transfix stated.
"Fleet Planner makes it so much easier to manage my business and day-to-day as a dispatcher,” said Erin Burton of A&B Carriers. “Before [Fleet Planner], I had to search across multiple spreadsheets, documents, and apps for key load information, but now it's all in one place. It saves me two hours per day! I especially love that I can easily send texts with load info to my drivers, right from the product," she said.
According to Transfix, Fleet Planner users have the ability to:
- View fleet: Get an immediate, unified view of all in-progress and upcoming loads
- Add and assign loads: Add important details for all loads and assign to the right drivers
- Share load details: Streamline communications with drivers via text
