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Cost Savings : TruckStops Routing & Scheduling

Image of truck to illustrate routing and scheduling With rising pressure to minimise damage to the environment, rising fuel costs and competitive squeeze on prices, minimising travel distances is essential. TruckStops can help you reduce fuel consumption, the distance travelled and delay the need to invest in enlarging your fleet. The return on investment can be large (typical savings 10-30%) and immediate. TruckStops doesn't just schedule trucks, it is also used to plan enforcement officers, sales staff and engineers, based at home or in offices.

Reduce Fuel Costs

10-30% savings

Reduce Mileage
Experience dramatically reduce mileage using TruckStops routing and scheduling. For example one company cut around 200,000 km of travel from its monthly delivery cycle when it introduced TruckStops to its water cooler delivery business.

Fully Load Vehicles

Further fuel savings can be made by not only optimising the route that is taken, but minimising the use of part loaded vehicles. Make every gallon count! As West Country Fine Foods found when they immediately saved thousands of pounds a month in fuel, wear and tear and depreciation,when they used TruckStops to balance deliveries much more evenly among vehicles, and plan routes that are far more efficient. They also saved on the number of vehicles required.

Choose Optimisation Method

TruckStops users can choose the best way to optimise their routes to minimise cost. Options include routes calculated using TruckStops own StopZone values or roads with real speeds derived from millions of GPS (global positioning system) records of traveling vehicles.
Vans

Optimise Fleet Use

40-50% time/wage savings

Reduce planning time
For example, by introducing the TruckStops routing and scheduling system, decorative timber supplier Richard Burbidge Ltd has halved the time it previously took to plan delivery routes from day to day.
image showing Richard Burbidge trucks after halving planning time with TruckStops routinga nd scheduling

Reduce Wage Bills
For example, Collect Services says since introducing the current version of TruckStops, it has achieved a 45% saving in staff costs and a 40% improvement in productivity along with a 30% reduction in fuel used by its teams of enforcement agents.
Whether you are simply improving your existing business or need to optimise acquired resources after mergers or acquisitions, TruckStops can help you maximise business return & to operate more efficiently.

image showing enforcement agents making stop scheduled with TruckStops routing and scheduling software

Redispatch Vehicles
Robert Wiseman Dairies uses six-wheeler rigid tankers which used to complete two trips in a day - Now, with the aid TruckStops' scheduling, many of the same vehicles will complete three round trips in a day.

Other Savings

Less Resources Needed

Reduce Depot Requirement

Image showing ParcelForce vehicle

MapMechanics offers modules for your TruckStops system that optimise which customer is served by which location. Especially important during mergers and acquisitions. Having established the size the business needed to be, Tim Burge, Network Development Manager for ParcelForce Worldwide said “we could model any combination of depots and territories we wanted”
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Faster job costings

Reduce the time taken to cost jobs and prepare winning bids.

Andrew Easton of G Easton and sons explains: “Without TruckStops, we couldn’t have concluded the tendering process, and wouldn't be running the revised operation that we have today. That speaks for itself.”
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Minimise cost of new business

Use TruckStops to find prospects nearest to existing routes or in areas where existing work is not cost effective unless the volume is increased.
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