Transportation companies are under increasing pressure to reduce their environmental impact, while also maximizing their profits. But achieving both these goals can be a challenge, especially in an industry where fuel consumption and emissions are inseparable. Fortunately, with Trimble's Performance Portal, it’s now possible for fleets to achieve both by analyzing the performance of their drivers and trucks in one single place. Performance Portal offers a comprehensive and effective way to track and optimize the performance of your drivers and trucks. By monitoring key metrics such as fuel co ..read more

Fuel-efficient driving can save your company hundreds of euros in fuel each year, improve road safety and prevent wear on your vehicles. If you don’t seem to be getting the overall gas mileage you desire, there could be several reasons why. While it could be a mechanical issue, it could also be your driver’s driving habits. What if you could have an overview of both your driver and truck performance in one place? By analyzing telematics and additional data, companies can closely monitor driving behavior and fuel consumption. The handy dashboard in Trimble’s Performance Portal simplifies compl ..read more

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e-CMR: Manage your waybills digitally A CMR (Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road) is a document used for the regulation of road freight transport and serves as an international agreement. CMR allows a customer to define how they communicate with the company, what services or products they will purchase, and how they will pay for them. The CMR Convention is a treaty between European countries and some countries outside of Europe on the legal rules regarding the carriage of goods by road.  Game changer The e-CMR stands for 'digitizing at the source ..read more

Fuel takes a big chunk out of the budget of every transport company, representing about a quarter of all costs on average. By analyzing and optimizing driving styles, you can significantly lower your fuel consumption, leading to increased profit margins and a better future for our planet. Trimble’s Performance Portal helps driven transport companies with the continuous improvement of fleet safety, driver performance, CO2 emissions, and fuel costs. The Performance Portal provides a clear overview of all data related to your drivers’ driving styles. “The Performance Portal allows me to influenc ..read more

Estimated time of arrival (ETA) is a crucial help for dispatchers in transport and logistics. Now, these organizations serving the European market can leverage the Trimble TruETA™ solution to calculate ETAs with even greater precision. The system calculates driving distance taking into account current and historical traffic, as well as a variety of other parameters such as average historical loading and unloading times for each activity or the remaining driving time—regardless of whether the driver is using the navigation system or not. Is one activity delayed, then all activities already pla ..read more

There are many answers to this question. One thing is certain, the more accurate the estimated time of arrival (ETA), the more effectively it can be used by transport and logistics companies. With TruETA, Trimble is enabling even more precise ETAs calculations, taking into account a wide range of order-related data, including the routes for all assigned activities, current traffic and additional parameters such as average historical loading and unloading times for each activity or the remaining driving time. The first companies have already started using this extension of our FleetCockpit bac ..read more

Whether it is due to the Corona measures or Brexit: in the past year, carriers have had to deal with significant delays at the European internal borders. This not only has consequences for carriers and their direct clients, but for the entire supply chain in which they operate. The companies that have control over their trucks' arrival times come out on top ..read more

When it comes to efficiency in transport and logistics companies, route optimisation is of decisive importance. Tour organisation has a direct effect on the capacity of the vehicle fleet, as well as on the employees’ workloads. But optimisation is not just a question of saved costs. Gustav Barth GmbH, for example, uses the tour planning system of gts systems and consulting in combination with the CarCube telematics solution by Trimble. This way, Gustav Barth GmbH not only reduces the number of tours, but also increases employee satisfaction and improves customer service ..read more

Trimble is now using video intelligence to bring an intelligent dashcam solution to Germany which will offer a wide range of features in addition to tour registration. Specific traffic conditions and accidents can be captured and recorded with the use of a digital video recorder (DVR) and outward-facing wide-angle cameras, and this information can be subsequently reconstructed and meticulously analysed. Johs. Martens, a company specialised in the transportation of hazardous material, is currently equipping the first 100 trucks in its fleet with the solution ..read more