Trailer management is a complex task that can quickly become tedious in the transportation industry. Carriers face daily challenges in keeping track of their equipment, avoiding human error, and maximizing the efficiency of their operations. Automating this management, especially with a GPS tracking system, can radically transform your company’s performance. Here are five reasons why you should start improving your processes through automation.

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1. Significant Reduction in Wasted Time

Managing trailers without the help of a tracking system leads to equipment searches and manual inventories, causing considerable loss of time. How many hours a week do your truck drivers spend looking for trailers instead of being on the road? How much time does your team spend carrying out inventories using physical supports or digital spreadsheets? You can imagine the productivity gains when these tasks become fully automated.

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2.Precise Tracking of Your Transportation Partners

Whether you rent or lend trailers to partners, keeping track of your equipment is essential to avoid unpleasant surprises. With a trailer tracking system, you can track the exact location of each trailer, even when used by an intermediary. Not only does this let you know where your equipment is, but it also enables you to offer a traceability service to your customers, even when it’s not your truck making the delivery. GPS tracking gives you full visibility of your fleet’s activity, ensuring complete transparency when it comes to the use of your trailers. This can translate into more accurate invoicing for trailer retention time.

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3.Security and Rapid Recovery After Theft

Trailer or cargo thefts represent a major risk for carriers, but a GPS tracking system can help you minimize this impact. A system that provides real-time positioning in a concealed manner offers significant protection that is difficult for thieves to detect.

Take the example of an Anytrek customer who lost a load of maple syrup. Thanks to the geolocation information provided by our platform of our GPS tracker TrackLight, the authorities recovered the trailer and its cargo the same day, as well as an entire warehouse of stolen equipment. This kind of responsiveness is crucial to maintaining supply chain fluidity and protecting your company’s reputation. Furthermore, paired with an asset tracking system such as the Asset Tracker, you can adequately protect open-air shipments of valuable goods. Indeed, these products in particular help trace stolen trailers and cargos on average within 72 hours, helping you avoid costly compensation claims.

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4.Optimize Fleet Utilization

Another major benefit of automated trailer management is the ability to optimize the use of your existing fleet. An asset utilization report can help you identify under-utilized trailers, enabling you to sell or lease unprofitable equipment.

For example, one customer was able to reduce the need to buy 50 new trailers by simply reorganizing his routes and optimizing the use of his existing fleet using AnyFleet. His investment in an intelligent equipment tracking solution paid for itself in full and even generated additional profits.

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5.Integrating Trailer Tracking Into Your Existing TMS

By choosing a solution that integrates seamlessly with your TMS, ELD, or other fleet management software, you’ll be able to see the actual position of all your equipment in one place. This saves you from constantly having to navigate to other platforms unnecessarily and saves you precious time. A provider that offers free, open ‘REST APIs’ will also enable you to integrate the necessary information into your in-house software.

Anytrek offers you all these advantages, as well as rapid integration with its strategic partnerships with numerous telemetry and maintenance systems.

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How to Make the Right Choice

An essential aspect to consider when implementing modern technologies within a company is to make the transition to new processes as smooth as possible. This change may initially cause resistance on the part of employees since it changes the way they carry out their daily tasks. Therefore, it is crucial to choose a turnkey solution that is implemented quickly.

One of Anytrek‘s strengths is its mobile application. It enables managers and drivers to track the position of each trailer, or any other equipment fitted with a tracking device, in real-time, wherever they are. This mobile tracking greatly facilitates asset management, while improving the responsiveness of transport teams, thanks to its accessibility. Moreover, installing our GPS systems on your assets takes just a few minutes, with no drilling or modifications required. This enables a rapid, hassle-free transition to automated management.

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In Conclusion

Automating trailer handling with a GPS tracking system is not just a question of technology. It’s a strategy that allows you to optimize the use of your time, reduce the costs associated with manual management, guarantee the safety of your equipment, ensure visibility for your employees, and maximize the use of your fleet. By integrating solutions like Anytrek‘s, you benefit not only from more efficient work processes but also from improved profitability and a better reputation with your customers.

If you’d like to find out more about how Anytrek can transform your operations, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us for a personalized demonstration.

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