Trucker Tools users can now access Simple Truck’s ELD truck location data within the Trucker Tools Smart Capacity carrier and capacity management platform, the company announced.
Along with an electronic logging device (ELD), Lathrop, California-based Simple Truck offers a bundle of online tools for commercial drivers' tax and regulatory compliance filing, insurance, and other safety devices.
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Simple Truck, which has more than 4,000 devices on trucks driven by independent owner-operators and small truckload fleets, joins more than 70 ELD and telematics technology providers linked to Trucker Tools to capture location information from truck-based ELDs, said Prasad Gollapalli, the company’s founder and CEO.
According to both companies, a secure Application Programming Interface (API) was implemented in January to support the integration.
“We’re pleased to welcome Simple Truck to the Trucker Tools platform as another resource for accurate, real-time data supporting timely shipment visibility that brokers and shippers require to manage their supply chains,” Gollapalli said. He added that the two companies were exploring additional collaboration opportunities, potentially adding a Simple Truck button to the Trucker Tools mobile driver app, making Simple Truck’s online tax and regulatory filing services available to the community of Trucker Tools independent owner-operators and small fleet users.
Gollapalli emphasized that the provision of ELD data is permission-based. The truck owner and/or driver control access to their ELD. Once activated, in-transit data from the ELD moves seamlessly into the Trucker Tools platform, accessible through the Trucker Tools Smart Capacity app on a smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer. The platform’s strict controls and permission-based access ensure no other ELD data outside of location updates is shared.
For truckers, the benefit is flexibility, control, convenience, and a quick, simple solution to improving tracking compliance for customers. Activation can be instituted within a day once a request from a shipper or broker is received, and driver permission is obtained.
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“Truckers can choose between automating tracking through the Trucker Tools mobile driver app or their ELD,” Gollapalli said. “It helps brokers and carriers further streamline operations, improve carrier engagement and respond to shippers promptly with timely in-transit location data.”
Trucker Tools has nearly 190,000 small-fleet truckload operators active on its carrier engagement platform, with more than 90% of those running 10 trucks or less, as well as single-truck owner-operators. “That’s a significant advantage for shippers and brokers,” Gollapalli concluded. “In times like these everyone is looking to bring more small carriers and owner-operators into their network to help solve the capacity crunch.”
