|
|
 |
|
|
| Trip Alert® |
|
| Know the Status of Your Entire Fleet and Minimize Non-Revenue Miles |
|
| Free Demo! |
|
| What is Trip Alert®? |
Trip Alert is a real-time asset tracking solution that precisely monitors vehicles along the entire trip ensuring that the driver is taking the most efficient and safe route to the customer. Asset control optimization is the most technologically advanced approach to systematically reducing out-of-route miles costs. The ability to have visual status of your entire fleet offers additional cost benefits in safety, security, and customer service.
|
| How does it work? |
Trip Alert blends the technology power of your existing dispatch, routing, and mobile communications systems for real-time asset tracking anywhere in the contiguous United States, Canada & Mexico. Trip Alert monitors the receipt of the power unit position update and the trailer position update from the mobile communications system. This, together with all work assignment knowledge, forms the basis for the sophisticated calculations which allow current vehicle locations to be monitored and to forecast future vehicle locations and driver status.
Trip Alert automatically notifies the dispatch manager if a power unit is late or out-of-route.
|
| How will Trip Alert decrease cost? |
Trip Alert produces the most efficient route at the time of dispatch and continuously monitors the vehicle to determine if it goes out-of-route. The minimized out-of-route occurrences translate into substantial savings in fuel, time, and driver & vehicle utilization.
A modest savings scenario is saving $960.00 per truck per year in reduced out-of-route miles. This calculation is based on an average of 200 miles per month in reduced out-of-route miles multiplied by $0.40 variable cost per mile. This equals $80.00 per month, resulting in $960.00 per year. For a fleet of 200 trucks, a total savings of $192,000.00 is realized in one year.
Additional cost efficiencies include:
Maximize asset utilization and prevent service failures
High-tech customer service with proactive notification of late arrival
Driver safety and driver time at home
Proactive swap opportunities
Vehicle safety & security
Monitoring detention
Improved tax refund implications
|
| What are some of the unique functionality features of Trip Alert? |
Automatic Notification of Out-of-Route & Customer Arrival and Departure Events and Swap Opportunities |
Trip Alert generates alerts based on vehicle position and activity. Vehicle position alerts include: on time / late / projected late, on route / out-of-route, geofence triggers, driver at home, arrive at customer, depart from customer, weather, traffic and more. Vehicle activity alerts include: potential swap opportunities, high / low speed, hours of service violations, excessive idle, failure to report location, no movement, attach / drop trailer and more.
Trip Alert identifies the locations and times when two power units will be feasible to swap load assignments. Trip Alert recommends those swap opportunities which improve utilization, on time performance, and driver home time. Trip Alert provides built-in capabilities to identify candidates for in-transit swaps—leveraging the data to maximize driver and equipment utilization, prevent service failures, and increase driver time at home.
|
| How is Trip Alert implemented and supported? |
Trip Alert integrates seamlessly with your existing dispatch and mobile communications systems for fast implementation and for maximizing the return on your technology investments. IDSC offers best-in-class customer support—from implementation, to training, to compliance guidance, to day-to-day issues, to new release roll-outs. Every customer is assigned to a customer account manager to ensure appropriate attention and satisfaction. Online support is also available for documentation downloads, customer forums, and Q & A. The IDSC annual users conference offers several sessions on getting the most out of Trip Alert, industry-experts speak on current issues, power-users pick up and share tips & tricks and customer’s ideas are collected for future product versions.
|
| How is Trip Alert different from other solutions? |
> Continuous Product Improvement and Innovation |
IDSC has specialized in profit improvement technologies for the truckload carrier for over 25 years, serving customers representing over 70,000 power units and the "Top 100" carrier market. IDSC is recognized as a pioneer in the industry and for developing innovative software technologies that include the first power-to-load match optimization introduced in 1978 and the first fuel optimization program introduced in 1994. IDSC is committed to providing customers with a strategic advantage by accelerating profitability through the use of optimization-based decision support planning and execution software. Every solution from IDSC is engineered with over 100 years of industry expertise combined with the most sophisticated information technology.
|
> Robust Reporting |
 Trip Alert provides robust real-time and historical reports with drill-down detail. Historical out-of-route reports are available for a user specified date range. These reports display your system-wide out-of-route percentage as well as by driver manager and power unit. Managers are able to double-click on any power unit to retrieve detailed out-of-route information by trip. Company statistics are displayed with key factor information such as: out-of-route miles, actual miles, plan miles, % out-of-route miles, out-of-route miles per trip, number of trips, and average length of haul. Driver manager statistics are displayed with key factor information that includes: power ID, driver manager, out-of-route miles, actual miles, plan miles, % of out-of-route miles, out-of-route miles per trip, number of trips, and average length of haul. Additional reporting capabilities include report wizards that easily generate reports for continuous improvement in the reduction of out-of-route miles and late deliveries.
|
> Netgraf Graphical Information Display |
Drivers, tractors, trailers, loads, customers, etc., all can be displayed with IDSC’s Netgraf®, allowing you to get a complete view of all activity or to zoom in to see the details.
|
> Seamless Integration to Dispatch and Mobile Communications Systems |
All of IDSC’s solutions are pre-integrated to industry leading dispatch systems (Tom McCleod Software, Innovative Computing Company, Maddocks Systems, Showme Software & TMW Systems) as well as industry leading mobile communications systems (Qualcomm, Aether). Actual highway routing is laid out using either ALK or Rand McNally software, whichever the customer chooses. These leading routing solutions generate HazMat and 53 ft. trailer compatible routes. A seamless integration results in a fast and worry-free implementation—and a faster return on investment. IDSC also offers integration to custom systems as well.
|
> Integration to IDSC Product Suite for Greater Synergies |
Trip Alert integrates directly with IDSC’s Expert Fuel® for fuel and route plan optimization at the time of dispatch and also to IDSC’s Route Advice® for the most accurate turn-by-turn driver directions in the industry. Each module is engineered to create greater efficiencies and savings in concert with savings from Trip Alert. As with every software module from Integrated Decision Support, Trip Alert integrates with our entire product suite for a complete end-to-end planning and execution transportation management system designed to accelerate the profitability of your fleet. For more information, contact us toll-free at 877-671-0045 or email us at sales@idscnet.com.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Policy