5 Driver Recruitment & Retention Strategies that Actually Work

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The trucking industry is under a lot of pressure with rising freight demand and fewer drivers available to haul loads. In fact, the American Trucking Associations predicts that driver shortages will rise to over 100,000 by 2022. With an increasingly competitive job market, it has never been more important for businesses to invest in driver recruitment and retention.

Let’s take a look at five driver recruitment and retention strategies that actually work and best practices for fleets to implement them.

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Why Driver Retention Matters

The trucking industry’s driver shortage has become a major cause of concern. In addition to about 80,000 fewer drivers than last year, COVID-19 related closures of truck schools and new Department of Health and Human Services rules could exacerbate the problem. That’s not to mention the migration from fleets to owner-operators to chase down spot opportunities.

While driver recruitment has been a major focus for fleets, annualized turnover at carriers with more than $30 million in annual revenue is over 90% and smaller carriers is nearly 75%, according to Trucking Info. Driver retention strategies can help mitigate these high turnover rates and reduce the need to spend a lot on highly competitive recruiting efforts.

Fortunately, there are many strategies that fleets can implement to improve driver retention and reduce turnover. While some of these efforts require a substantial investment, others require simply listening to drivers’ honest feedback to improve the relationship. Simple changes, such as better explaining pay calculations, can often have a big impact.

#1. Smart Referral Programs

Referral programs are an effective way to recruit new drivers. In fact, Randall Reilly found that 39% of owner-operators and 26% of company drivers use word of mouth to find driving jobs. Referrals are also great for business because they tend to be lower cost and produce higher quality job leads compared to conventional marketing programs.

There are three parts to a successful referral program:

  1. Determine the cash value of a referral by looking at the cost of recruitment from other sources and the revenue potential for a new driver.
  2. Develop worthwhile incentives for referrals based on their value to the business, such as a $1,000 cash incentive or paid vacation days.
  3. Remove friction by providing a recruiter email address to drivers or using mobile apps that make referrals easy to process.

#2. Strong Driver Feedback Loops

Most fleets have some kind of feedback loop in place for drivers. For example, your business might survey drivers each year to measure their satisfaction against benchmarks and identify areas for improvement. The most successful companies make feedback a core part of their culture and strive to constantly measure and improve over time.

There are several ways to collect better feedback:

  • Onboarding programs should solicit frequent feedback during the first 90 days when turnover tends to be high. In frequent check-ins, supervisors and drivers can discuss any potential issues to resolve them before a driver quits the job.
  • Anonymous feedback tools enable companies to collect honest feedback that drivers may be unwilling to bring up in person. The key is asking open-ended questions that enable drivers to expand upon problems with insightful details.
  • Ride-along programs can help supervisors, dispatchers and drivers see potential issues that they may not even realize when in separate spaces. With ample time to connect on key issues, these experiences can help put the company in the drivers’ shoes.

#3. Tech-Driven Driver Experience

Most people can relate to being frustrated with a piece of technology—whether it’s a crashing software application or a cellular dead zone. On the other hand, new technology can make life a whole lot easier through better user experience and automation. Fleets can leverage modern technology to help drivers avoid these stresses and streamline their jobs.

Some of the most impactful tech improvements include:

  • Replace 2G or 3G in-cab ELD solutions with 4G LTE devices to avoid dead zones and improve data speeds, as well as improve data reliability for the business.
  • Modernize scheduling to reduce driver detention times and reduce the paperwork that drivers have to fill out at the loading dock.
  • Install monitoring solutions to identify maintenance issues before they cause problems and simplify cargo monitoring and other tasks for the driver.

PowerFleet for Logistics provides a wide range of 4G LTE telematics solutions to solve these issues. In addition to ELD-compliant in-cab solutions, PowerFleet can help provide full visibility of trailers or containers to dramatically improve scheduling, reduce detention times and ensure that cargo is properly monitored from origin to destination.

#4. Use Positive Reinforcement

Most truckers are familiar with the rules of the road: Wear seatbelts, follow the speed limit, avoid sudden braking and various other rules. With modern telematics, it has become easier than ever for fleets to monitor these factors and penalize violations, but there’s a fine line between punishing bad behavior and maintaining driver relationships.

Positive reinforcement is a better way to encourage good behavior while improving relationships. Rather than punishing bad drivers, you can reward top drivers based on their seatbelt usage, braking habits or acceleration. There are even ways to gamify these behaviors to help drivers monitor and adjust their own behavior in real-time to earn rewards. Drivers can also view how they are being scored in real-time through ELDs, which enables them to make adjustments and see results. In addition, some ELDs provide the ability for two-way communication with drivers so that they can submit feedback to give more context. #5. Invest in Vehicle Maintenance

Trucks that break down impact on-time delivery and driver relationships. After all, drivers aren’t maximizing their earning potential if they’re sitting on the side of the road. Maintenance issues aren’t limited to the cargo either; a failure to maintain driver cabins or sleeping areas can quickly become a source of frustration as it impacts drivers’ quality of life.

In addition to promptly fixing any problems that arise, predictive maintenance techniques can reduce the probability that maintenance issues ever surface. For example, you may notice that cooling times are taking longer and replace them before they fail. New technologies can also detect problems in real-time and enable a prompt response that minimizes driver downtime.

The Bottom Line

The trucking industry is facing a crisis with an increasing level of freight and fewer drivers, which has created a very competitive job market. By investing in driver recruitment and retention programs, you can reduce turnover among drivers and find new drivers at a lower cost than conventional recruitment programs.

PowerFleet for Logistics provides an array of technologies that can help power many of these strategies. Contact us today to learn more.

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The (Surprising) Impact of Dwell Time & Strategies to Reduce It

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Detention time is one of the most common complaints among drivers—and free Diet Coke and pretzels does little to help the problem. When looking at the problem more deeply, dwell time inefficiencies cost over $1 billion each year and can even impact safety on the road. Carriers and shippers should work together to solve these problems for themselves and drivers.

Let’s take a look at the impact of rising dwell times and some strategies that both carriers and shippers can implement to reduce it.

Detention time is not only a common complaint among drivers, it costs shippers and carriers more than $1 billion each year.

What’s the Impact of Dwell Time?

Dwell time refers to the total amount of time spent at a facility. According to DAT Solutions, more than 60% of drivers spend more than three hours at the shipper’s dock each time they’re getting loaded and unloaded. A separate survey found that detention times exceeded two hours in 49.5% of deliveries and pickups, with 9.3% exceeding six hours.

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Detention Times Are Getting Worse – Source: ATRI Survey

The ATRI survey found that detention times have worsened between 2014 and 2018—particularly for refrigerated trucks, or reefers. While trucking volumes experienced a lot of gyration during COVID-19, the long-term trend remains toward longer dwell times during periods of normal trucking volume, although that could change post-pandemic.

Detention time—a major component of dwell time—costs drivers and carriers over $1 billion annually and may be associated with increased crash risk, according to the Department of Transportation. Despite frequent complaints from drivers, shippers and receivers aren’t typically aware of or overly concerned by these costs or risk factors.

Dwell time also impacts driver and carrier abilities to meet federal hours of service, or HOS, regulations that limit on-duty hours. In addition to losing on-duty revenue-generating time in detention, electronic logging devices, or ELDs, have made it easier than ever to get caught for HOS violations, which can impact safety ratings or trigger financial penalties.

Finally, there are significant environmental costs associated with dwell time as trucks spend long periods of time idling at picking or delivery facilities. These environmental costs are particularly high for refrigerated trailers that must be kept running at all times.

Tracking & Measuring Dwell Time

Accurate and up-to-date data is a prerequisite to any strategy aimed at reducing dwell time. Without the right statistics in hand, it’s impossible to know the location and severity of problems and come up with the right solutions. The right data can help you pinpoint where problems exist and provide alerts when they go unsolved for too long.

There are several metrics that can help assess dwell time:

  • Appointment Rate = Number of Loads / Number of Appointments
  • Compliance Rate = Non-Compliant Loads / Total Loads
  • Delay Rate = Delayed Arrivals / Total Arrivals
  • Average Delay = Total Delay Time per Period / Number of Loads per Period

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PowerFleet’s Analytics – Source: PowerFleet

PowerFleet® for Logistics provides in-depth, real-time analytics to comply with federal HOS and FMSA guidelines and track dwell time and asset turns. You can easily gain visibility into exactly where and when a trailer stops, how long it dwells and whether it’s loaded or empty, as well as real-time insights into the dwell times of all trailers in a fleet.

The benefits of these technologies extend well beyond reducing dwell time. Modern tracking systems provide real-time position reports, engine performance information, two-way communication with drivers, environmental status reports and more. These capabilities make it easy to comply with regulations and conduct root cause analyses when problems arise.

Shippers can use the same technology to improve yard visibility by accessing real-time insights into what assets are in the yard by location, their status (loaded or unloaded) and what yards and terminals are operating most efficiently. The information can be used for everything from improving billing accuracy to assessing fleet utilization based on seasonality.

Strategies to Reduce Dwell Time

The primary cause of excessive dwell time is a lack of communication that leads to inaccurate schedules and missed appointments. While both shippers and carriers share responsibility, there are some best practices that can help improve communication and incentivize both parties to keep a tight schedule that minimizes dwell time for drivers.

Appointments

Appointments are critical to ensuring that everything is running on time. By staggering pick up times, shippers can keep their staff focused and reduce dwell times. When the schedule becomes too busy, shippers may want to consider using extended hours, such as weekends, to reduce congestion and make it easier to stick to a regular schedule.

In addition, there should be a simple check-in procedure for arrivals to avoid creating bottlenecks. A paperless check-in process is much faster, less frustrating and more accurate than having drivers fill out paperwork on-site. A lot of the paperwork can also be automated away with technology when using a paperless check-in process.

Detention Fees

A logical way to reconcile lost productivity and incentivize shippers to be on-time is to charge hourly detention fees. While delays can still cause issues downstream, these fees can partially offset productivity losses for both drivers and carriers. The ATRI survey found that about half of carriers charge $50 to $69 per hour and one-third charge more than $70 per hour.

Live Loads

Modern technologies are opening the door to live loading possibilities. By designating “live load” dock doors, shippers can load a trailer immediately after it docks to virtually eliminate dwell time. These live loads may only be possible under a specific set of circumstances, but when they occur, they can make a big dent on averages over time.

Drop Trailers

Drop-and-hook systems remove dwell time from the equation by enabling truck drivers to simply unhitch their trailers and keep moving onward. By keeping loaded trailers available and organized, these systems can virtually eliminate dwell times and keep products moving quickly—a win-win situation for drivers, carriers and shippers.

The Bottom Line

Dwell time—and especially detention time—is a major problem in the trucking industry. Fortunately, there are several strategies that both shippers and carriers can use to mitigate the problem. Most of these solutions rely on technology at the core in order to pinpoint problems, improve communication and keep tighter schedules.

Learn more about PowerFleet® for Logistics and how it can help your business stay on track through greater visibility or contact us today to schedule a free consultation.

4 Reefer Challenges & How New Tech Can Solve Them

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Refrigerated trailers have many of the same issues as dry vans, but there are a few key differences that make temperature-controlled shipping a bit more complex. When a refrigeration system breaks down, the problem becomes an urgent matter because temperature sensitive products can quickly spoil.

Let’s take a look at four common problems that arise with reefers and how to prevent them with the help of operational best practices and technology.

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#1. Poor Loading Practices

Industry analysts estimate that nearly a third (32%) of all refrigerated cargo is loaded at the wrong temperature. Oftentimes, the cargo spoils from being left at the loading dock for too long before it’s even loaded onto a reefer. These so-called “hot loads” can result in shipper compensation, disposal costs, and empty miles when rejected on delivery.

Advanced temperature monitoring solutions can help quickly detect temperature anomalies and directly alert carriers. For instance, the PowerFleet LV-400 integrates with all major refrigeration brands and enables carriers to remotely monitor and make changes to reefer units without necessarily involving the driver.

In addition to avoiding “hot loads”, pallets should be properly designed to avoid temperature related problems during transport. Pyramid stacking, for example, limits contact with interior walls that may become too warm and enables air circulation along the side walls. Pallets should also be properly braced to avoid blocking airflow—particularly along the rear.

#2. Equipment Failures

Equipment failures are another common source of problems for reefers—particularly with aging fleets. While most drivers run refrigeration hardware before loading products to assess temperature readings, these efforts don’t account for failures in the temperature sensors themselves nor address potential problems as they occur on the road.

There are several types of equipment failures:

  • Fluid leaks in equalizer tubes or cooling hoses can cause problems for the compressor and condenser that cool the reefer.
  • Air leaks from broken seals near doors or air chutes are another common reason that reefers lose their cooling capabilities.
  • Sensor calibration issues can cause problems if they give inaccurate readings or fail to give alerts at the right time to drivers.
  • Bulkheads that separate different temperature-sensitive cargo within the same trailer could experience issues if airflow is blocked or faulty.

The best way to avoid equipment failures is to ensure that the reefer is properly maintained with regular inspections for fluid leaks, broken seals and other issues. When on the road, it helps to have another set of eyes on the temperature since drivers have other priorities. The PowerFleet LV-400, for example, lets dispatch keep an eye on the load and adjust temperatures remotely.

#3. Driver Errors

Reefer drivers are similar to pilots in that there are a lot of instructions to memorize. In addition to configuring the reefer properly (e.g., not forgetting a zero), modern refrigeration units have hundreds of different alarm codes that indicate problems of varying severity. Drivers don’t always have the time to address these issues while remaining safe and on time.

Driver training can help avoid many of these problems. Like pilots, drivers should be trained to make use of checklists to ensure that everything gets done properly with each job—even when checklist items seem trivial. For example, a checklist might include setting the temperature and checking it once more prior to departure from a sensor reading.

Temperature monitoring solutions can also help by putting a second pair of eyes on the temperature readings. Dispatchers can check settings and return air temperatures to ensure the reefer unit is set to the proper temperature for the load and is maintaining the temperature during it’s transit. They can set up automated alerts for any abnormalities to quickly respond to corrections that may need to be made.

#4. Rules & Regulations

Perishable foods are some of the most common products shipped in reefers, and they’re subject to certain rules and regulations. In particular, the FSMA Rule for Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food was written to provide an audit trail in the event of any issues that arise when they reach their destination.

The rule has several key requirements:

  • Vehicles and equipment must be properly designed and maintained to ensure that it doesn’t cause the food it carries to become unsafe.
  • Transportation companies must take measures to ensure food safety, such as maintaining adequate temperature controls, preventing contamination and incorporating food allergens.
  • Carrier personnel must be trained in sanitary transportation principles and document that training. The FDA provides a training module for that purpose.
  • Written records of procedures, agreements and training (for carriers) must be maintained for at least 12 months.

Reefers may also deal with regulations governing pharmaceuticals (such as vaccines), hazardous materials, bulk liquids, flowers, paint or other refrigerated goods.

Temperature monitoring solutions can help meet all of these requirements by providing an in-transit record of temperatures and consistent vehicle updates. For example, the PowerFleet LV-400 automatically monitors temperature, alarms, operational status and changes, as well as geofences for accurate reporting of arrival and departure times.

Additional Benefits of Tech

Temperature monitoring systems and other new technologies are extremely helpful for overcoming many of the most common problems facing refrigerated trucks, but they also provide a variety of other benefits that carriers should keep in mind. These additional features can help with everything from minimizing dwell time to improving maintenance scheduling.

Common Reefer Problems

The PowerFleet LV-400 can help in many areas:

  • Dwell time reporting to show you how much time reefers are spending at the loading dock versus on the road.
  • Automated yard check capabilities that eliminate the need for an employee to conduct manual yard checks.
  • Landmark reporting with fuel level capture upon arrival and departure to help identify potential issues with fuel efficiency.
  • Door open and close capture to prevent theft and identify any problems that occur en-route without driver notification.
  • Improved preventative maintenance scheduling capabilities with automatic recording of engine hours and fault codes.

With rules-based alarms that only generate alerts when necessary, carriers and their drivers can focus on what matters without worrying about what could be going wrong.

The Bottom Line

Refrigerated trucks play an important role in the supply chain by transporting food and other perishable products. Like any other trailer, they experience regular maintenance issues that require attention, But unlike dry van trailers, reefers often require immediate action to avoid costly damage to the sensitive cargo that they carry.

Modern temperature monitoring solutions in place in combination with operational best practices can help prevent many of the most common issues from occurring and mitigate their severity when they do occur. By keeping detailed records, you can also ensure that contracts are fairly enforced when blame goes around for spoiled products.

Learn more about PowerFleet for Logistics.

The 3G Sunset is Coming: Are You Ready to Upgrade?

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Most telematics and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices purchased after 2018 often come with 4G/LTE modems, but there are still tens of thousands of legacy 3G telematics devices in use across North America. As cellular networks begin to sunset their 3G networks, transportation and logistics fleets should act now to replace 3G devices purchased before 2018 to avoid service disruption—particularly in rural areas.

Let’s take a look at when 3G networks are expected to shut down, why fleets should upgrade to 4G/LTE and how to make the change with minimal disruption.

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When Will 3G Shutdown?

The transition from 3G to 4G is starting now and will increase as the 3G networks begin to shut down in late 2021 through 2022. This means fleet operators should start the upgrade process to avoid service disruptions as soon as possible. By closing down their older networks, the cellular service providers (e.g., AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile/Sprint) are freeing up bandwidth to accommodate increased data requirements and faster speeds for 4G/LTE and the newer 5G networks.

The official sunset dates vary by cellular provider:

  • T-Mobile in October 2021
  • AT&T in February 2022
  • Sprint in December 2022
  • Verizon at the end of 2022

Apart from these hard deadlines, many cellular service providers have stopped accepting new 3G subscriptions and aren’t permitting legacy devices to be reactivated once their subscription ends. As a result, some fleets may be forced to upgrade ahead of the sunset dates set by the cellular service providers—which means it’s important to take action now.

Fleets shouldn’t wait until the last second to make the switch to avoid potential bottlenecks as the sunset dates approach. For example, there could be a shortage of equipment by vendors or a lack of personnel to help with installation. These delays could prove costly as more and more fleets start to ramp up their transition to 4G/LTE or newer telematics solutions over the coming months.

Benefits of Upgrading to 4G/LTE

The benefit of moving to 4G/LTE will be more reliable data connections, especially in areas of heavily congested wireless networks. 4G/LTE offers higher data throughput speeds once in session. In addition to faster speeds, 4G/LTE networks offer better coverage, more data, and improved compatibility with other technologies, which in turn, equates to more powerful information transmitted. There may be other benefits specific to various solutions providers that are enabled by the faster connection, increased bandwidth and lower latency, too. 4G/LTE provides the infrastructure that offers the ability to do more.

There are several benefits to upgrading to 4G/LTE:

  • Extended Coverage: Extended wireless network coverage, particularly in rural areas, with wider coverage ranges and improved network reliability.
  • Faster Connections: More bandwidth and faster data speeds along with lower latency when it comes to initiating connections.
  • Compatibility: Better compatibility with new technologies and, in many cases, lower total costs over the long run.

Newer 5G networks are just starting to roll out and offer even faster connections and lower latency, but most 4G/LTE technologies remain the most widely supported and cost-effective (and the 4G sunset won’t happen until after 2030). As they come online, 5G networks could open the door to autonomous driving, and other next-generation technologies.

How to Prepare Your Fleet

The process of upgrading from 3G to 4G/LTE may seem daunting, but given the near-term 3G sunset, it’s important to start the process as soon as possible. As with most technology projects, the upgrade process includes both business and technological considerations, which makes it important to plan in conjunction with your solutions provider.

Start with the business considerations:

  1. Allocate Budget: Budget must be allocated to the project in order to ensure that it can be executed without any issues. Oftentimes, solutions providers can provide an outline of the total costs for both the equipment and service. In addition, talk with your provider about budgeting options to help upgrade your fleet with zero upfront cost.
  2. Name a Point Person: Choose someone within the organization to spearhead the upgrade process and coordinate between the solutions provider and the internal team.
  3. Consider the Options: Assess satisfaction with your current telematics solutions provider and evaluate the newest advances in trailer tracking and ELD technologies available today to see if it makes sense to upgrade your overall solution. Consider newer features such as:
    • Asset tracking device power management, leveraging solar panels, supercapacitors and long-lasting primary batteries for long service life.
    • Camera technology providing high-definition images, get accurate visual proof of the empty or loaded status of trailers, and trailer utilization, which enables more accurate customer billing.
    • Sensor data, such as door opened or closed, cargo area environmental sensors (e.g., temperature, humidity, shock) for true freight visibility and conditions.
  4. Prepare for the Upgrade: Determine the optimal times for the upgrades to take place with minimal disruption to the rest of the business. As with prices, solutions providers can usually provide a timeline for device replacement and installation.

Then, iron out the technical details:

  1. Take an Inventory: Determine how many legacy 3G devices are in the fleet, as well as their brand, location, type of asset it’s on (e.g., dry van trailer, container, chassis, tanker, flatbed, reefer, in-cab, in-vehicle). The goal is to determine what type and how many assets need to be upgraded and what types of upgraded devices are best suited for your operations.
  2. Come up with a Plan: Select a solutions provider, determine the costs, get up to speed on new systems and plan a phased rollout. Take into consideration the time it takes to uninstall your existing devices and the time it takes to install the new devices. Work with your solutions provider to find out their typical installation time. Depending on the device and sensors solution selected, installation can take from 15 to 30 minutes per device, phased rollouts can reduce downtime of your fleet. The key is coordinating with your solutions provider to minimize disruption. Transportation and logistics companies that address the 3G to 4G/LTE transition early enough will ensure no loss of visibility of their assets. This enables them to receive continued intelligence on the location and status of their assets.
  3. Archive Legacy Data: Hardware is easy to retire but data from telematics systems should be accessible in archive or cloud-based solutions. That way, fleets can still access data from before the migration to new 4G/LTE solutions. These data archives are important for both data consistency and compliance purposes.
  4. Execute Your Plan: Work with your solutions provider to create a schedule to ship and receive your 4G/LTE devices and schedule your assets to come in for uninstalling and reinstalling devices. We recommend planning on scheduling a set amount of assets per month to be addressed. Next, you’ll want to ensure that everyone at your company knows what to expect when a migration occurs and coordinate any necessary training to bring everyone from drivers to logistics professionals up-to-speed on how to utilize the new technology. Solutions providers may provide training services to both drivers and logistics personnel.

In the end, it helps to work closely with your selected solutions providers to ensure a smooth transition. By establishing an internal point person and coming in prepared with a plan, your company can ensure that the process is conducted efficiently with minimal disruptions to the business, and most importantly, ensure that the process is finished before the deadline and loss of visibility.

The Bottom Line

The 3G sunset will begin as early as Fall 2021 and could affect tens of thousands of legacy telematics and IoT devices. If fleets haven’t prepared for the 4G/LTE migration, there has never been a better time to start the process. By taking a measured approach, you can minimize disruption to the business and ensure a smooth transition to 4G/LTE or 5G compatible technologies.

If you’re ready to start the process or are considering a new solutions provider, contact us to schedule a free consultation and learn how we can help ensure a smooth transition.

PowerFleet has 20 years of experience in logistics telematics with more than 125,000 telematics devices in the field, spanning in-cab ELDs, dry van trailers, reefers, containers, chassis, tankers, flatbeds, and much more. We have previous experience with transitioning customers from Analog to 2G to 3G and we understand the unique challenges of retrofitting your fleet when you can’t stop operations. We have a team approach and can advise you on the best plan to approach the 3G sunset and offer a strong implementation team to walk you through the upgrade/rollout (e.g. uninstall and install) process.  We design, develop and manufacture a large breadth of product options for superior quality and ability to address multiple needs of mixed fleets.

Freightwaves Health & Pharma Summit 2021

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FIRESIDE CHAT: Pharma Supply Chain Lessons Abroad

Each region of the globe presents a different challenge in creating efficient medical supply chains to address the unique needs of its populations. Nowhere is that more evident than in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Our CEO, Chris Wolfe, connected with FreightWaves CSO, John “JT” Engstrom, at the FreightWaves Health & Pharma Summit to discuss the different cold chain technologies and methods to getting critical medical supplies around the globe from Israel to Africa.

Watch the full interview.

Learn more about PowerFleet cold chain and refrigerated trailer monitoring solutions. You can also request a consultation from our team of experts.

Fleet Owner Article: Cargo’s future: safe & secure

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The article covers some of the most innovative equipment trends in cargo monitoring and securement to help keep fleets ahead of modern logistics issues, ranging from worker shortages to e-commerce growth.

Our GM for Supply Chain, Mark Stanton, connected with John Hitch at FleetOwner to discuss how PowerFleet’s AI-enabled freight camera helps workers better prepare for challenges at the dock.

“Sensors provide part of the story; adding freight cameras offers the whole picture.

“Before the trailer gets to the dock, you’ll know if the load has been unsettled and can allocate the additional resources that may be required to resolve the problem.

…freight cameras, which have an infrared mode, can also identify extra capacity in a trailer.”

Read the full article.

Learn more about PowerFleet’s freight camera solution, the LV-710, and its benefits. You can also request a consultation from our team of experts.

PODCAST Interview with Transport Topics’ Roadsigns

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ROADSIGNS EPISODE 50: HOW CAN FLEETS HARNESS DATA TO SAVE FUEL AND CUT EMISSION

A growing number of shippers are signing on for more efficient freight transportation services in order to reduce carbon emission in their supply chains. Our CEO, Chris Wolfe, connected with Seth Clevenger at Transport Topics for their podcast, Roadsigns, for a conversation about the year ahead in part two of their series on key technology trends in 2021. In the podcast, they discuss the logistics technology behind making sustainability in trucking a reality.

“Gone are the days when going green simply meant added costs for truckers. In fact, in 2021, fleets may find more boon than burden.”

Listen to the podcast or read the full transcript from here.

Want to know more about how to cut down on idling and wasted loading time to improve fuel efficiency? Learn more about how PowerFleet for Logistics solutions can support your company’s sustainability goals now. You can also request a demo from our team of experts.

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