| TruckStops routing and scheduling is fast and flexible making it possible to schedule cost effectively just before loading. The speed and complexity of the optimising also enables businesses to consider a range of alternatives or add additional items at the last minute to maximise the load on each vehicle. |
Planning time halved using TruckStops routing and scheduling |
By introducing the TruckStops routing and scheduling system from MapMechanics, decorative timber supplier Richard Burbidge Ltd has halved the time it previously took to plan delivery routes from day to day, whilst at the same time gaining unprecedented power to ensure that priority loads are allocated automatically to its own in-house transport fleet.The company delivers direct from its factory base in Oswestry, Shropshire to most parts of Britain, using a fleet of 21 curtain-sided trucks.
Once all priority orders have been allocated each day, any spare capacity remaining on the vehicles is used to deliver other orders, with heavier consignments taking precedence. All remaining orders, including lighter consignments, are dispatched by parcel carrier >>>
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"TruckStops much quicker and more dynamic process" |
The TruckStops routing and scheduling system from MapMechanics is playing a fundamental role in a nationwide carpet distribution contract won by Rhys Davies Freight Logistics. According to business implementation manager Gary Phillips: “If we had to do the same scheduling job manually, we’d have to turn off all the phones, avoid all interruptions, and spend the best part of the day on it.” With TruckStops, he says, the scheduling task can be undertaken towards the end of the working day, and is done by staff who also have other administrative responsibilities. “It’s a much quicker and more dynamic process than it could possibly be with traditional manual scheduling.”>>>
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TruckStops does the scheduling "more efficiently in a fraction of the time" |
The Group Transport Manager for Robert Wiseman Dairies described the system as: “powerful and sophisticated” explaining that TruckStops does the scheduling “more efficiently in a fraction of the time”.
milk processor and haulier Robert Wiseman Dairies increases the number of milk collections by 50, and the company has paid tribute to the essential role played in the planning process by the TruckStops routing and scheduling system, which was supplied by Kingswood MapMechanics.
Previously the company's six-wheeler rigid tankers would complete two trips in a day - one involving offloading to >>> |
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"Delivery planning has been transformed" with TruckStops routing and scheduling |
The Managing Director of PDQ, plant delivery specialists, has found planning for their vans is much quicker using TruckStops. He says:
“delivery planning has been transformed”.
An up-and-coming transport company can benefit from a mainstream routing and scheduling system like TruckStops just as much as a large one – and it works just as effectively with subcontracted vehicles as with those owned by the user-company. That’s the conclusion of PDQ Transport, a Cheshire-based company specialising in nationwide deliveries >>> |
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"Reduced planning time does not mean planner's specialist knowledge is wasted" |
Lloyd Fraser’s senior transport supervisor at Tuberex, explains that reducing planning time by using an automated system, does not mean that the planner’s specialist knowledge is wasted or that unexpected last minute changes cannot be made. He says “We might have personal knowledge of particular drops and be aware that a given delivery will take less time than expected, or a given customer won’t mind taking delivery outside the preferred time. That means we can sometimes shuffle drops around to make space for additional deliveries. We work with TruckStops to reach the best solution.>>>
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