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Flying Star Transport integrated its dispatch, in-truck technology and accounting system, while meeting the new ELD mandate and addressing demand for more real-time data. Photo courtesy Flying Star Transport<\/p>\n
About two years ago, Flying Star Transport was looking to integrate its dispatch, in-truck technology and accounting system, while meeting the new electronic logging device mandate and addressing demand for more real-time data.<\/p>\n
It was working with PDI, which provides enterprise software for convenience retail and petroleum wholesale markets. But PDI didn\u2019t offer an ELD solution. After researching options, Flying Star dropped its longtime traditional in-cab computer system in favor of a bring-your-own-device strategy, using iPad Air2s in all its trucks, running KeepTruckin software and integrating with the PDI back-office systems via API. (API, or application programming interface, is a protocol that allows communication between different software and applications.)<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a solution that doesn’t force us to have proprietary hardware. It also allowed us to keep track of our trucks more in real time; we can see them as they’re moving, the speed they\u2019re going, how long they\u2019ve been sitting,\u201d says Jayson Boydstun, chief financial officer.<\/p>\n
With dispatch, accounting, and the in-truck software all talking to each other, the company has been able to go from four days to two days on billing.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur next step is to take that ELD and geo information that KeepTruckin is providing and be able to provide some reporting and analytics that we see as critical to our business and future to make sure we\u2019re running profitable lanes and making the best decisions when we make a freight rate decision,\u201d Boydstun says. \u201cBeing able to integrate that real-time information and utilize their open API to our system and really slice and dice it.<\/p>\n
The system also has helped Flying Star with driver payroll. After moving from a commission-type pay program to hourly pay, the company found it\u2019s able to use KeepTruckin to collect driver log information and import that via API into its payroll system, explains Dwayne Thompson, IT systems administrator. \u201cWe can also use the same system to collect miles driven to support the incentive enhancements we offer in conjunction with hourly pay.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also changing the way Flying Star interacts with customers. The next phase, Boystun says, \u201cis to give customers some real-time visibility into where their loads are and when that load\u2019s going to be there. They\u2019re not depending on a phone call \u2013 they\u2019re able to log into a system and monitor their shipments. Also being able to speed up our billing time has been a tremendous plus. A lot of them are convenience stores that need to know the price of fuel delivered as they are pricing their fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also notes that a new geofencing feature from KeepTruckin is allowing the company to set it up with customers so an email is automatically sent to both Flying Star and the customer when the truck breaches that customer\u2019s geofence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more real time information that we can garner, not just from the logistics perspective but also from the customer perspective and the driver perspective, it seems to be a great benefit,\u201d Thompson says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat KeepTruckin’s been able to help us do from a management position is help drive efficiencies,\u201d Boydstun adds. \u201cAre we having to wait too long at certain sites? How do we help coach our driver to know this load should take three hours so why is it taking four? We probably gained 10 to 15% efficiency just by monitoring our freight lanes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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