Transflo, Comdata develop mobile-app-based cardless gas cost answer
Know-how information and briefs for the week of April 23, 2023:
Transflo Pockets presents digital gas funds
Freight automation firm Transflo, a subsidiary of Pegasus-Transtech, and FLEETCOR’s cost processor firm Comdata Inc. have collectively developed Transflo Pockets.
The mobile-app-based cardless gas cost answer leverages Transflo’s cell app know-how and Comdata’s proprietary digital card capabilities to allow freight brokers to ship digital gas advances to carriers and drivers via a safe and user-friendly cell app.
The businesses joined forces to deal with the long-standing challenges of typical cost strategies like checks and plastic gas playing cards which are inefficient, expensive and prone to fraud.
The superior safety options of Transflo Pockets defend carriers from fraud and unauthorized entry. It additionally delivers options that allow carriers to streamline their gas administration and scale back their total gas bills.
Samsara helps fleets with sustainable operations
Samsara Inc.’s current gas effectivity and electrical automobile choices are actually mixed within the IoT firm’s new Sustainable Fleet Administration answer, offering extra data-driven insights to assist fleets alongside each step of their sustainable operations journeys.
The Sustainable Fleet Administration answer introduces a number of new and enhanced options:
• Gas & Power Hub, appearing because the one-stop store for mixed-fuel fleets, together with Inner Combustion Engine (ICE), EV and hybrid autos, to make sure their drivers and property carry out optimally. This new dashboard helps operations leaders visualize a whole fleet’s efficiency whereas gathering actionable insights into gas financial system, value and consumption to direct change.
• Sustainability Report, permitting prospects to visualise their fleet emissions and monitor output throughout websites and autos to pinpoint enchancment areas. This report additionally gives perception into present and predicted fleet emissions over time so prospects can set extra correct targets and observe progress in opposition to their sustainability targets.
• Cost Management, combatting driver vary nervousness by managing real-time EV charging at scale and simply figuring out charging points. Prospects can create customized charging profiles by teams or by particular person autos and obtain notifications for irregularities. Cost Management will likely be accessible in open beta this summer time.
• EV Suitability Report, offering prospects with a tailor-made listing of ICE autos inside their fleet which are most fitted for EV transition. As an evolution of Samsara’s current Fleet Electrification Report, this new report now contains evaluation for all automobile varieties and permits prospects to configure electrification standards for superior suggestions.
WARP launches new suite of monitoring instruments
WARP, a tech-powered freight community specializing in middle-mile options, has launched a brand new suite of monitoring instruments. DirecTrack, provides shippers a excessive stage of visibility of their freight on the truck, pallet and parcel ranges, together with temperature monitoring.
A shipper usually solely receives updates in regards to the whereabouts of its cargo when it leaves a facility and when it arrives (static occasions). WARP is bringing real-time location updates to the motion of products all through the cargo’s complete journey with the interconnected platforms of the DirecTrack suite.
The suite contains real-time temperature monitoring utilizing a small tag that may be utilized on to a field or pallet inside a cargo; cross-dock monitoring at services that associate with WARP and use its software program; a driver app that gives shippers with actual location of masses, entry to view BOLs and PODs, and statistics, together with how lengthy a driver took to finish a route, delays and anticipated supply time based mostly on location; digital logging machine integrations via an API integration with TruckerCloud; and final-mile API connections, offering visibility on particular person parcels with choose last-mile carriers.
Descartes Aljex integrates with FreightWaves TRAC
FreightWaves Trusted Charge Evaluation Consortium (TRAC) spot fee information is now accessible within the Descartes Aljex transportation administration system (TMS). This integration gives freight brokers with a single answer to realize an up-to-date view of spot fee information to make extra knowledgeable fee, bid and freight reserving selections.
FreightWaves TRAC spot charges are utilized by brokers, carriers and shippers for benchmarking, analyzing, monitoring and forecasting charges. Knowledge is collected every day on the time masses are coated or accepted by carriers utilizing an enhanced methodology that helps eradicate biased information and supply a extra correct lane illustration and freight market view.
The scalable, cloud-based Descartes Aljex TMS automates and streamlines every day operations for freight brokers and third-party logistics suppliers (3PL) to spice up effectivity, together with order entry, lane fee comparability, load protection, fee affirmation, provider acceptance, dispatching and provider communications. It permits brokerages of all sizes to securely entry freight and transportation administration information from anyplace.
“The stress is on transportation organizations to ship excessive ranges of efficiency at decrease prices,” stated Dan Cicerchi, vice chairman and basic supervisor of transportation administration at Descartes. “With the mix of Descartes Aljex and FreightWaves TRAC, our freight dealer prospects have high quality information to provide higher, smarter and quicker worth presents to carriers, which optimizes freight reserving outcomes on a every day foundation and drives larger profitability.”
