1
Market Pressures
Contracting market conditions required the company to rethink strategies to stay competitive, switching to a short haul model to keep the price per mile up, which exponentially increased the amount of loads needed per truck, and the extreme niche they needed to fit.
2
Underutilized Fleet
Trucks returning empty vs making the second half of the days revenue due to low load availability impacted profitability as that empty trip replaced hal fthe day's revenue.
3
Limited Spot Market Visibility
Their current TMS didn’t offer any insights into spotmarket opportunities.
4
Manual Planning
Dispatchers spent considerable time searching for, negotiating and planning loads, leading to inefficiencies.