From the Horizon FrontLine

From the PeopleNet User Conference

Melody Latimer is at the PeopleNet User conference and is showing both PeopleNet and customers how Horizon works with it. I did up a little video a while back and I've got some more coming.

The last post I did on our new trucking technology web site had some video glitches - so I'm posting some new changes later today.

Once again, the keynote presentation was given by Lana Batts, managing partner at Transport Capital - all about Change, Uncertainty and profits.

So what changes are a given?
1. Fuel Prices remaining high.
2. Driver shortage isn't going away
3. Roads are getting more congested
4. Toll usage will expand
5. Regulations are going to tighten and cost more.

So how do you deal with this?
1. Carriers Need to be creative.
You need to charge surcharges for empty miles and repositioning. Hey - have you started using Billing Surcharges? They can make this process super easy. In fact, I'm going to see how we can add an option to automatically add an empty mile surcharge option.

2. Driver Shortages
Wages must go up, operations must change and life style must improve.
See our profile with LJ Rogers to find out how a company with a focus on driver productivity is a good thing.

3 and 4 - Road Congestion and Toll usage
Solution? Better routing and optimization. We have links with IDSC that can help ensure your trucks are hitting the right spots for fuel optimization but with road congestion, that optimization is going to have to be in REAL TIME.

5. Regulations
Route Monitoring. Trucking Monitoring. Driver Monitoring.
With tools Circle of Service and PeopleNet, but we link with a variety of other tools as well, including trailer tracking and with our RFID partner, Primary Tracking.

A great deal of the keynote was about tracking costs and the right technology. Looks like a great presentation - we'll be posting some more highlights from the PeopleNet conference as we hear back from Melody.

What can we do to help track costs better for you?

Are there costs we aren't tracking today that need to be?



PeopleNet User Conference

posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 9:23 AM