TechValidate Research on FleetLocate

Introduction

This case study of Midnite Express, Inc. is based on a January 2020 survey of FleetLocate customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select FleetLocate:

• Hoped to address the following with FleetLocate:
  • Have better visibility to their trailers/assets at all times
  • Use their trailers/assets better
  • Improve their driver productivity
  • Reduce their operational costs
  • Become GSMA compliant

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of FleetLocate that the surveyed company uses:

• Have seen tangible improvements in the following since implementing FleetLocate:
  • Use of driver time
  • Use of fleet manager’s time
  • FSMA compliance
  • Ability to serve their customers
  • A more productive trailer fleet overall
• Have seen tangible improvements in the following since implementing FleetLocate:
  • Their confidence that trailers/assets are where they’re supposed to be
  • Their confidence that trailers/assets are being used evenly
  • Their ability to manage trailer pools
  • Their use of trailer/assets overall
• Have seen tangible improvements in the following since implementing FleetLocate:
  • Staying on top of preventive maintenance schedules
  • Their confidence that railer repair/service is performed when it’s needed
  • Trailer-related CSA violations
  • Trailer maintenance management overall
• Have seen tangible improvements in the following since implementing FleetLocate:
  • Their control of trailer maintenance costs
  • Prevented theft of trailers
  • The recovery of stolen trailers
  • The identification of lost/misplaced trailers.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with FleetLocate:

• Saw levels improvement in the following areas since implementing FleetLocate:
  • trailer/asset productivity: significant improvement
  • trailer/asset maintenance: significant improvement
  • trailer/asset utilization: moderate improvement
  • cost savings: moderate improvement