What technologies do you consider essential for drivers and back-office personnel to do their jobs? Your shortlist might include electronic logging devices, truck and trailer telematics, accounting and payroll software, route planning and navigation, weigh station bypass, and weather and traffic alerts.
The ongoing costs and fees associated with using all these systems can be staggering. Fortunately, there is a simple and cost-effective solution to consolidate your essential tech stack while gaining control, flexibility, and functionality – with a custom mobile app platform.
Reduce Multiple Fees
Fleets that use off-the-shelf apps to perform specific functions like document capture or navigation often have multiple subscriptions per in-cab or mobile device for drivers to do their jobs. Navigating between the disconnected apps is inefficient and frustrating — moreover, the cost of managing multiple systems and fees can strain resources.
With a single custom driver app, fleets can deploy a comprehensive solution consolidating their tech stack. Fleets can leverage pre-built components and connections through the custom app platform with third-party systems to save money and enhance driver and office staff efficiency.
Integration: The Key to Cost Reduction
Imagine a scenario where disparate technologies seamlessly integrate into the driver app’s user interface. This integration would eliminate the need for juggling between different applications, reducing the time drivers spend on non-driving tasks to keep their wheels rolling.
USA Truck envisioned this scenario to help it solve a problem it was experiencing from using disparate systems. Each system worked well for performing individual tasks, but collectively, the systems needed to be talking to each other. The problem created extra administrative overhead, mainly from taking calls from drivers who couldn’t access required information for payroll, operations, safety, etc.
After deploying a custom app with the help of Eleos Technologies, the fleet successfully consolidated its systems with an app that gives drivers a single sign-on user experience to access navigation, payroll, load options, and more. After deploying the custom app, the fleet saw driver turnover decrease to all-time lows, saving the company hundreds of thousands on new driver recruitment, which includes job ad placement, training, and hiring bonuses.
Consolidate Functions to Save Money
A custom driver app can act as the central hub, combining various functionalities once scattered across different systems. For example, integrating a custom app with an ELD system will give drivers real-time, out-of-cab visibility of safety, performance, and compliance data.
Additionally, drivers can access payroll information in the app through integrations with accounting systems. The same goes for single-system access to navigation, real-time communication, weather alerts, trailer telematics, online training, and more. In an industry where time is money, having all the essential features in one app is a big moneymaker for drivers and the back office.
One of many ways fleets using the Eleos custom driver app platform get significant savings is from integrated trip planning functionality. When using various smartphone apps, truckers will spend about 30 minutes planning a route, on average. However, with the Eleos Trip Planner, fleets report drivers are spending 15 minutes or less. For a 1,000-truck fleet, cutting trip planning time by half saves the carrier over 90,000 hours and $6.8M million annually! (Calculate your fleet’s savings here.)
Pre-Built Components for Efficiency
Using pre-built components ensures a quick and smooth integration process that saves time and money. Fleet managers can choose features that align with their specific needs, creating a tailored solution without unnecessary components that off-the-shelf apps may have. Additionally, you can update and scale the app with new functionality your drivers or office staff need without paying a web developer or coder to build it. You simply choose the necessary components, customize them, and deploy them in real-time.
Ezzell Trucking was hampered by manual, paper-based delivery processes and worked with ASR Solutions, an Eleos Certified Integrator, to build a fully customized app in under 30 days. This was doable because the app uses pre-built components to automate processes and deliver real-time shipment updates, including document scanning capabilities that simplify office tasks. Since the app’s implementation, Ezzell drivers have eliminated as much as 60 minutes of dwell time per load, reducing fuel costs, increasing productivity, and getting their drivers back on the road rather than waiting.
Custom Driver App = Your One-Stop Solution
Consolidating essential technology into a custom driver app has emerged as a beacon of efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the ever-evolving trucking landscape. Integration holds the key. Without it, companies’ tech stacks continue to grow, eating resources, compounding inefficiency, and causing driver frustration.
However, by consolidating the entire technology stack into one user-friendly mobile interface, fleets can confidently navigate the road ahead, knowing they are reducing costs and empowering their drivers and office staff to operate at their best.
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