Logistics Solution Announced for Transportation Companies
Cheetah Software and Turnpike Global have created an logistics intelligence solution that combines routing and dispatch information with data gathering capabilities.
Cheetah Software Systems, Inc. and Turnpike Global Technologies have announced a partnership to offer an integrated logistics intelligence solution to transportation companies. Matching routing and dispatch optimization with Turnpike’s data gathering capabilities, the solution enables real-time vehicle performance data to be integrated into an LTL and delivery software solution.
Cheetah has helped transportation and logistics companies automate and optimize routing, dispatch, and customer service with real-time capabilities. Now the company can integrate Turnpike’s RouteTracker, an electronic on-board recorder that collects and reports on vehicle statistics and automates regulatory compliance information (such as IFTA, IRP and HOS), providing customers with additional benefits:
- Completed routes can be analyzed for aggressive driving practices that affect safety, regulatory compliance, and efficiency.
- Future routes can be planned based on individual and driver performance as well as regional variables that impact idle times (such as weather-related vehicle heating and cooling needs).
- Benchmarks can be established for vehicle efficiency, route variables, and driver characteristics and used to verify performance improvements.
The combined solution leverages Java-enabled cell phones and Windows Mobile devices to provide applications that not only optimize routing, dispatch, and customer service, but that also automate regulatory compliance processes. Together, Cheetah and Turnpike provide logistics planning, visibility, and events management, thereby helping to increase productivity, reduce operating costs and greenhouse emissions, and improve safety and compliance.
As a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, Cheetah offers LTL and delivery software solutions that can be implemented in as few as 60 days and provide a return on investment within six months, according to the company. RouteTracker installs in less than 15 minutes per vehicle, says Turnpike, providing reports that use truck data to improve the overall operational procedures of each vehicle.
Brendan Staub, Chief Executive Officer of Turnpike Global LLC, put it this way. “We are very pleased to partner with Cheetah and offer both our customers and the market an end-to-end transportation management solution that includes wireless dispatch, fleet optimization, tracking, regulatory compliance, as well as direct engine diagnostics reporting via the handheld.”
