C.H. Robinson automates money advance request course of for carriers

Expertise information and briefs for the week of April 2, 2023: 

New app automates money advances for carriers

International logistics firm C.H. Robinson has automated the method for carriers requesting money advances, making it extra environment friendly and efficient for them to receives a commission whereas on the highway. With the Navisphere Service App, carriers can request 60% of their fee, 24/7, after they’ve confirmed load pick-up.

“We’re all the time searching for new methods to leverage know-how to raised the provider expertise,” mentioned Cody Griggs, C.H. Robinson’s director of enterprise product administration. “Everyone knows that the previous couple of years have been actually difficult attributable to market circumstances. By making it simpler and sooner for our provider companions to entry their cash, we’re including one other layer of effectivity and comfort for the trucking group.”

Carriers that request a money advance get a code instantly delivered to their cell phone, enabling them to obtain digital fee inside seconds. As well as, C.H. Robinson has additionally automated the method for signing up for Fast Pay, which beforehand required filling out a PDF type.

WARP names new chief tech officer

WARP, a tech-enabled community of cross-docks and carriers specializing in middle-mile options, has named Diep Nguyen its chief know-how officer. Nguyen joins the WARP crew from AxleHire the place he beforehand labored intently with WARP co-founders Daniel Sokolovsky and Troy Lester on constructing their know-how.

All through his profession, Nguyen has leveraged his background in laptop arithmetic and parallel programming to construct know-how platforms from the bottom up. His experience lies in designing proprietary, scalable packages and for the final 4 years has centered on the logistics {industry}.

Nguyen will assist execute on WARP’s imaginative and prescient to construct an extensible, fully-connected provide chain that empowers each shippers and carriers to optimize the center mile. In contrast to different 3PLs or brokerages the place the know-how is designed for one answer, Nguyen will assist WARP to design know-how that can permit for the addition of latest capabilities and performance, along with different customers.

Powerfleet answer helps fleets cut back collision threat

Powerfleet Inc. has launched its security and safety data-powered software to its fleet intelligence platform Unity, which ingests, compiles and enriches knowledge from any IoT gadget or third-party enterprise system.

This new answer offers companies improved visibility and insights from real-world security and safety incidents below one complete and extremely centered set of dashboards and reporting, serving to fleets make better-informed and faster choices that cut back the danger of collisions and private damage, lower theft, enhance asset and car longevity, enhance driver retention and keep model status.

The brand new software goes past accident mitigation. The collision reconstruction device additionally offers clients with forensic knowledge to determine trigger and probably mitigate legal responsibility. The security and safety answer takes live-streamed knowledge from fleet IoT and telematics units and sprint cam footage, together with driver habits and exterior environmental circumstances, to supply a transparent state of affairs of what occurred earlier than, throughout and after a collision. Triggering alerts by superior knowledge intelligence, for incidents reminiscent of rushing, distracted driving, or hazard spots, permits real-time monitoring of driver security and documentation.

Zonar characteristic customizes inspections to fleets’ wants

Zonar has launched a brand new customization characteristic inside EVIR Cellular, its patented digital verified inspection reporting product.

The brand new configuration device, Inspection Builder, offers progressive flexibility for all fleet sorts – together with freight, pupil, transit and building – tailoring inspection necessities to their particular wants whereas sustaining Division of Transportation and Occupational Security and Well being Administration compliance for normal pre- and post-trip inspections on common car sorts.

With Inspection Builder, fleets can edit current inspections or create new ones from scratch in as a lot element as they want, with the flexibility to make the most of the patented map view characteristic to ease driver workflows and onboarding; modify protocols for tag placements, terminology and car zone numbers and elements; title inspections and supply a brief description for operators; show the fields to finish, reminiscent of odometer, route quantity, transport paperwork and extra; decide if belongings or sure zone tags have to be scanned; and create standalone deep-dive inspections on particular elements reminiscent of tires and brakes.

Inspection Builder’s configuration capabilities make it simpler for fleets to combine new elements into inspections, reminiscent of timecards for payroll, gas stage monitoring, sanitization necessities and different protocols to streamline processes.

Trimble gives industry-specific dwell time metrics

Trimble Fleet Supervisor, offered as a part of Trimble’s Mobility telematics portfolio, is now the primary back-office fleet administration answer to supply industry-specific common dwell time metrics, serving to fleets to make higher planning choices, enhance service stage settlement (SLA) adherence and make the most of their belongings and drivers extra effectively.

Powered by the Trimble Transportation Cloud, Trimble’s Related Places workflow makes this dwell time knowledge immediately out there inside Trimble Fleet Supervisor, offering driver managers entry to actionable data to extra successfully handle journeys and plan arrival instances for his or her drivers.

Related Places offers {industry} common dwell time metrics utilizing exact polygonal geofences for pick-up and drop-off areas. By combining anonymized dwell and historic GPS knowledge streams with its thousands and thousands of geofenced areas, Trimble is bridging the hole to deal with the disconnect between fleets and their clients, offering transparency round facility dwell instances, to cut back sudden delays whereas drivers wait to be loaded or unloaded.

New TMS caters to small fleets, proprietor operators

T3 Tech LLC has launched a transportation administration system developed from the bottom up for small fleet homeowners and operators.

Designed for small fleets working 20 or fewer vehicles, which contains 97% of the greater than 500,000 for-hire motor carriers registered with the DOT, TrueTMS has a user-friendly interface and structured workflows that help all steps within the order-to-cash lifecycle of freight transactions. The cloud-native system is purposefully designed to assist fleets enhance driver, load and asset administration to develop income and profitability and speed up money move.

These are the core options within the software program that allow small fleets to enhance working effectivity:

• Load Administration. Customers can rapidly and simply assign masses to drivers, monitor their progress and modify routes as wanted to maximise profitability.

• Driver Dispatch Administration. Customers can optimize routes and have end-to-end visibility of load progress to make sure secure, on-time deliveries.

• ELD Integration. TrueTMS is appropriate with greater than 30 ELD suppliers to ship real-time visibility of belongings, driver hours and different standing particulars for planning masses and sustaining compliance.

• On-Demand Reporting. Fleets can entry their knowledge from user-friendly dashboards and customised reviews to make higher and sooner choices.

• TrueTMS is straightforward to make use of, fast to implement and integrates simply with current software program techniques to fill gaps. Customers can entry the system wherever on any gadget.