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TECH
TRUCKER TOOLS OFFERS ‘REAL-TIME HEAT MAP’ TO LET
BROKERS SEE FREIGHT ACTIVITY AS IT’S HAPPENING
Trucker Tools, which provides
Smart Capacity, a shipment visibility,
carrier capacity management
and predictive freightmatching
solution for the transportation
industry, has launched two new broker
productivity tools.
The company is introducing an expanded
market-level “real-time heat map”
feature, according to Prasad Gollapalli,
Trucker Tools founder and CEO.
Today, brokers on Smart Capacity can
view a graphical map representing available
capacity in a city or region specific
to their network of qualified and preferred
carriers.
Under the expanded “real time heat
map,” brokers now can see not only their
own customer-specific network, but also
an aggregated, timely view of all loads and
all trucks in a city or market region, such
as Chicago or Atlanta, Gollapalli said.
“An important distinction with the
Smart Capacity heat map, unlike others,
is that ours is built on real-time, accurate
data,” Gollapalli said. “Our heat map is refreshed
and updated constantly, providing
the timeliest view of current market status.
That’s a huge value differentiator for our
customers.”
Heat maps are a widely-used management
tool that illustrate the ratio of available
trucks to available loads in a region.
The Smart Capacity real-time heat map,
which presents an aggregated view of the
larger overall market, does not display
any customer-specific detail on trucks or
loads at market level. Gollapalli said this is
a key design element whose purpose is to
protect and maintain confidentiality for the
broker and is a principal value feature of
the Smart Capacity platform, which oper-
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ates as a secure network with strong access
controls and protocols for ensuring
data security and integrity.
The productivity analysis tools provide
metrics and data which show average
times within a market for all brokers to
cover loads. Brokers can then view these
market indices, developed with real-time,
validated data, and measure their own
teams’ performance against an aggregated
average for a specific market area, city or
region.
The new feature also enables brokers to
measure the same key performance indicators
in multiple cities, providing market
insights and intelligence that can lead to
more efficient staffing and resource allocation
from region to region, he said.
“These enhancements were at the top of
the list of recommendations that came out
of our recent Customer Advisory Board,”
he added. “The new features are incorporated
into the Smart Capacity platform
providing predictive freight-matching and
carrier and capacity relationship management
solutions and are being deployed at
no extra charge to customers.”
He said the expanded heat map helps
brokers understand quickly where they’re
out of balance, for example, where they
have too many loads and not enough
trucks, and vice versa.
“In this case, the heat map would help
the broker discover that in a given market,
they need to expand their carrier base to
cover a rising load count,” he said. “Alternatively,
they may discover that they have
ample trucks in a market but not enough
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loads, identifying the need to redirect their
sales team to focus on that region and find
more loads.”
At the end of the day, the broker wants
their sales and operations teams focused
on those markets which need the most
help, finding more trucks or securing the
most profitable loads with preferred carriers
in the least amount of time, and keeping
preferred carriers busy with repeat
loads and reloads, Gollapalli said.
“Our more comprehensive heat map,
coupled with the new productivity measurement
tools, gives brokers fresh, reliable
intelligence that allows them to adjust
operations and deploy resources to
maximize opportunities and efficiencies.
You can’t fix what you can’t measure, and
these new tools provide the real-time data
and metrics to make informed, rapid and
accurate decisions that grow revenue and
increase profit.”
Both feature and function enhancements
are currently in beta testing with
select customers, with full availability expected
by the end of the year.
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The new Vector 8611MT, a multitemperature
trailer refrigeration unit,
enables a trailer to be divided lengthwise
into two refrigerated compartments.
Introduced recently by Carrier
Transicold at the Distribution Solutions
Conference of the International
Foodservice Distributors Association,
the Vector 8611MT unit incorporates
two evaporators and fans for two-zone
cooling without requiring a separate
remote evaporator.
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Trailer Transicold introduces new Vector 8611MT
unit with two evaporators, two fans
“The Vector 8611MT unit harnesses
the innovative Vector platform to create
a highly efficient, high-performance
unit for center-divide trailers where the
perishable and frozen compartments are
side by side,” said Patrick McDonald,
product manager, trailer products,
Carrier Transicold. “The all-electric
architecture of the Vector series enables
the unit to independently manage the
two zones more simply and efficiently
than mechanically interconnected
competitive units.”
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The Vector 8611MT unit will appeal
to food service and grocery distribution
operations for the flexibility it offers in
creating center-divide configurations,
McDonald said.
“Uniquely, our split evaporator
design creates a 15-inch-wide area
for center-wall placement, providing
a more efficient accommodation of
pallets that allows up to 17 percent
more cargo than competitive systems
requiring trailers to be divided precisely
down the middle,” he said.
As with other units in Carrier
Transicold’s Vector platform, the
new unit features E-Drive all-electric
technology, in which the diesel engine
runs a 21 kVA electric generator that
powers the refrigeration system.
Vector units have built-in electric
standby capability, so when parked for
loading, unloading or staging, they can
be operated via an electric power source,
providing full refrigeration capacity while
eliminating refrigeration unit engine
noise, emissions and fuel consumption.
McDonald said the unit’s architecture
eliminates most refrigerant valves and
significantly reduces the number of
braze joints and potential refrigerant
leak points compared to mechanically
interconnected competitive models.
“The Vector 8611MT unit harnesses the
innovative Vector platform to create a
highly efficient, high-performance unit for
center-divide trailers where the perishable
and frozen compartments are side by side,”
said Patrick McDonald, product manager,
trailer products, Carrier Transicold.
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“Uniquely, our split evaporator design creates
a 15-inch-wide area for center-wall placement,
providing a more efficient accommodation of
pallets that allows up to 17 percent more cargo than
competitive systems requiring trailers to be divided
precisely down the middle,” he said.
Uniquely, he said, the Vector 8611MT
has independent air control, enabling it
to optimize airflow and pulldown to
both zones. If heating is required, it
has the advantage of consistent electric
heat, rather than hot gas heat. This
reduces system complexity and enables
the unit to shut down the compressor
and other refrigeration components
when heating is required, greatly
reducing the power load on the engine,
resulting in further fuel savings.
The Vector platform’s reduced system
complexity also simplifies diagnostics
and maintenance requirements for
service technicians, according to a
company news release.
For additional details on the Vector
8611MT trailer refrigeration unit,
which will be commercially available
in the first quarter of 2019, contact a
member of Carrier Transicold’s North
America dealer network. ITJ
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INRIX taps I-5 in Northwest, Florida’s
I-95 as best corridors to debut autonomous
trucks
Many in the trucking industry seem convinced that
autonomous or “highly autonomous vehicles” (HAVs)
— those with no or little driver interaction — are just
around the corner, maybe within the next decade.
But if HAVs are coming, where are they going?
That is, where are they likely to appear first? Down
the street in Small Town, USA, or along stretches
out West? In downtown Cincinnati or along Florida
highways weaving through stands of long-leaf pine
and graceful palms?
INRIX, a purveyor and extrapolator of various
kinds of transportation “big data” — from information
generated by vehicles themselves to that generated by
road sensors, highway cameras, transportation departments
or toll entities — has just released a study on
which traffic corridors are a best fit for HAVs’ debut.
INRIX, which has headquarters in Washington
state and Cheshire, Britain, considered highways’
safety statistics, which had the lowest and highest
crash incidents, and which had the most and least
congestion.
They also looked for corridors carrying the most
amount of freight.
Routes weren’t only considered in the U.S., but in
Britain and Germany as well, although the emphasis
in this story will be on the U.S.
That said, however, the report said that globally,
labor costs and the cost of meeting emissions and
fuel-efficiency standards have all created great interest
in HAVs.
“The primary economic impetus behind HAV
adoption is decreasing labor inputs based on the
premise that truck operators will not be required for all
operations,” the report said, with the second economic
driver being that HAV technology “will potentially
enable the operation of larger trailers or truck trains.”
Fuel savings were also mentioned, with the report
stating that even if deployed on HAVs using current
diesel drivetrains, fuel savings could be realized by
“optimizing vehicle operations.” And, lower prices
would enable trucking to better compete with rail over
long distances.
Last but not least, the report maintained that highly
autonomous trucks would both reduce accidents and
emit less harmful emissions.
INRIX used driver trip data to identify what corridors
to study in terms of freight volume, which was
adjusted for length of road. For each of the freight
corridors selected, researchers estimated congestion
using INRIX Roadway Analytics and an algorithm in
which the average speed was divided by the designed
speed of the roadway.
An “incident platform” was used to find corridors
with the highest per-mile incident or crash rate.
Given that early on, HAVs will need to be on
longer, straighter, safer and less congested highways,
INRIX researchers looked at commercial corridors
100 miles or more in length and with congestion rates
of 5 percent or lower.
What they came up with as the best freeway corridor
for self-driving trucks as far as commercial
returns, was I-95 from Jacksonville, Florida, down
to Miami.
Interstate 5 from the Canadian border to northern
California came in second as far as commercial
returns because of its “exceptionally high freight
volumes and long distances under low congestion.”
However, when “averaging normalized congestion,
volume, length and incident rates,” the report
concluded, I-5 from Vancouver, Canada down into
northern California ranked No. 1.
That’s because I-5 carries a lot of freight, with
nearly 21,000 daily truck trips through Tacoma and
12,000 at Longview, north of Rainier, Washington.
This stretch of highway is also less congested than
other freeways on a 24-hour basis. It’s long, about
637 miles between Vancouver, British Columbia, and
Yreka, California. This means that a self-driving truck
would have a long stretch where ostensibly, a driver
wouldn’t be needed to take the wheel.
Although I-5 can have sudden traffic slowdowns,
INRIX spokesman Mark Burfeind said autonomous
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trucks could “see farther ahead” and reduce speed
faster than a human driver.
INRIX’s No. 3 choice as far as most commercially
viable was I-75 from Valdosta, Georgia, to Miami;
No. 4 was I-80 and I-90 through Cleveland and
Eastern Ohio; 5 was I-80 through Central Illinois and
Chicago; 6 was I-85 from Georgia to Greensboro,
North Carolina; 7 was I-20 in northern Georgia; No. 8
was I-10 through California and New Mexico; 9 was
I-70 from Utah to Kansas; and No. 10 were I-15 and
I-84 through Utah and Idaho.
The report concluded that when the congestion,
volume, length of route and incident rates were all
taken into consideration, after I-5 was I-95 from
Jacksonville to Miami; putting I-75 from Valdosta,
Georgia, to Miami at No. 3, I-70 from Utah to Kansas
at No. 4 and I-85 from Georgia to Greensboro, North
Carolina, at No. 5.
On the other hand, there was no such overlap when
researchers considered the 10 routes where safety
improvements were most needed.
Not surprisingly, I-75 from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, to Atlanta scored No. 1 in that category,
followed by:
• I-45 from Houston to Dallas
• I-20 from Dallas to Shreveport
• I-95 and I-295 in the Philadelphia area
• I-95 from New York to Rhode Island
• I-4 from Tampa to Daytona Beach, Florida
• I-15 from San Diego to Las Vegas
• I-80 from San Francisco to Reno, Nevada
• I-84 from Richmond to Norfolk, Virginia, and
• I-91 from Bridgeport, Connecticut, into Vermont
The report concluded that the U.S. has “strong
potential” for deployment of highly automated trucks
because of increasing freight demand coupled with “a
shrinking labor pool.”
It cited DOT projections that gross tonnage will
increase in the U.S. by 44 percent by 2045, and that
“meeting this demand with a smaller labor force will
require productivity increases.”
WIT President, CEO Ellen Voie named
NASTC’s Transportation Person of the Year
The National Association of Small Trucking
Companies (NASTC) has named Ellen Voie, president
and CEO of the Women In Trucking Association as
the 2018 Transportation Person of the Year.
The award was presented recently at the NASTC
annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Voie created WIT in 2007 and has been a
spokesperson for gender diversity in the trucking
industry ever since. The association was formed to
promote the employment of women in the trucking
industry, remove obstacles that might keep them
from succeeding, and to celebrate the successes of
its members.
Today, over a decade later, Voie, the association,
and its members are collectively a force to be reckoned
with economically and politically, having enhanced
and elevated the image of trucking and its professional
drivers to another level, according to David Owen,
NASTC president.
“I am truly honored to be recognized by David
Owen and his team as the 2018 Person of the
Year,” Voie said. “We’ve had a long partnership with
NASTC and it has been supportive of our efforts to
increase the percentage of women employed in the
trucking industry by recognizing a female professional
driver each year at their conference.”
“NASTC is honored to count Ellen Voie as one
of its longtime partners and colleagues. We are
proud to name her our Transportation Person of the
Year, 2018,” Owen said. “Her vision, energy and
forward-thinking has propelled women throughout
the transportation industry to the forefront at a critical
time in an extremely male-dominated industry.”
Prior to establishing WIT, Voie’s role was manager
of retention and recruiting programs at Schneider.
Voie earned the Certificate Association Executive
(CAE) credential from the American Society of
Association Executives.
In December 2008, she attended Tri-C Truck
Driver Academy in Cleveland to earn her Class A
commercial driver’s license. In July 2012, she was
honored by the White House as a transportation
innovators Champion of Change.
She received the 2015 “Distinguished Alumna of
the Year” award from her alma mater, the University of
Wisconsin-Steven’s Point division of Communication.
Voie was also named one of Supply & Demand Chain
Executives magazine’s “2016 Pros to Know,” which
honors select supply-chain executives who are leading
initiatives to help their clients, companies, or the
supply chain community at large to prepare for the
significant challenges in the year ahead. ITJ
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