Zebra APPFORUM 2019 is coming to Australia 13-14th August!

Market Motion is a sponsor of this event and will be showcasing our full solution including Roadnet Routing, Dispatch and Telematics from Omnitracs as well as be available to discuss our consulting expertise.

Register for the event today!

You can’t miss this event if your organisation uses the android platform or your business is migrating from windows.

This premier global event series is focused on the creation, deployment, and management of enterprise software and solutions. You will learn about technology trends and how they will impact enterprises.

Presentations from Google, Microsoft, IBM and SAP as well as Zebra experts.

Topics including:

• Enterprise application of blockchain
• Machine learning
• Artificial intelligence
• Data services & analytics
• Augmented reality frameworks
• Android development & security for enterprises
• RFID application development

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AI and machine learning are no longer the stuff of fiction, they are actively transforming how we live and do business in many different industries, including fleet management. We may not realise it, but these digital tools are all around us. They analyse how we shop online, stream entertainment, and operate vehicles, then adapt to our changing behaviours to suggest new purchases, new entertainment choices, and to keep drivers safe.

These artificial Intelligence systems can process information and adapt to promote change faster than any one person, or even a team of people, ever could. This speed is essential when a driver’s life could be on the line. The safety of drivers should be your number one priority for your fleet operations. According to The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) 216 people died in 2017 from 196 fatal crashes involving heavy vehicles in Australia.

Artificial intelligence systems act to bring this number down in some large trucks, service vehicles, and passenger vehicles by gathering information on how we drive and teaching themselves to recognise new risks on the road. They can then alert drivers to danger or even assist in controlling the vehicle to avoid it.

Companies in our industry are using predictive analytics as a way of applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve the safety of their drivers. Artificial intelligence can indicate that a driver has a high likelihood of being involved in a preventable crash, allowing the company the opportunity to mitigate that potentially catastrophic event.

Your back-office can apply intelligence to data gathered from across your fleet to analyse driving behaviour and performance, then give timely, advice to coach for safer and more efficient driving.

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Contact Market Motion if you would like more information on how fleets of all sizes can benefit from artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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When it comes to your delivery operations, people and safety should always come first, and that will never change. However, time is of critical importance for your delivery operations to be efficient and cost-effective. Time constraints everything we do. Focusing on time allows us to focus on critical industry issues such as worker shortage and compliance requirements such as working hours.

Several factors contribute to additional time on the road for drivers and therefore impact productivity which in turn affects the efficiency and effectiveness of your operations. These include:

• driver not having the correct or missing delivery information,
• driver dwell time, detention and other delays,
• mechanical delays and breakdowns,
• navigation to the shipper/receiver,
• loading of the truck/vehicle,
• ease of parking.

Driver not having the correct or missing delivery information

It is of utmost importance that you send your driver on the road with all of the information required to deliver to the receiver. This includes the correct address and the correct location to deliver at that address. Sending a driver to the front of a business when the delivery dock is at the back of the building can cause major disruption, particularly in a CBD when it could take considerable time on one ways streets to get to the correct location. Ensure you have addresses geocoded to the correct location can increase route plan accuracy and help reduce unplanned overtime and missed time windows.

Dwell time

Another major factor eating away at time and efficiency is dwell time. Dwell time is time spent in the same position, area, stage of a process. For example, when a driver is caught in heavy traffic or waiting at a dock. An FMCSA study* in 2018 revealed that a 15-minute increase in the average dwell time increases the average expected crash rate by 6.2%. The logic is that drivers who have been detained may drive while fatigued or try to make up lost time and income with unsafe driving practices. Another possible factor that could increase the crash rate is driver frustration.

There are also astronomical costs attributed to dwell time. According to Jack Levis, UPS’s director of process management, one minute per UPS driver per day over a year adds up to $14.5 million while one minute of idle per driver is worth $500,000 of fuel at the end of the year.

Mechanical delays and breakdowns

No one can sustain a business if their equipment is breaking down. If a truck breaks down on the road, there is time lost waiting for a mechanic or worse getting towed back to base and transferring the load to a different truck, if there is one available. So ensuring trucks have correct maintenance and using technology to monitor engine diagnostics is a beneficial way to keep your fleet on the road.

Navigation to shipper/receiver

Don’t rely on consumer level maps for your drivers to navigate to their destination. To ensure your drivers are on the most efficient route, you need to be using enterprise level maps. Enterprise map providers keep all of the data current. That means navigating on roads that really do exist, including new roads that have just opened up — and road names must be accurate to keep drivers from getting lost. We know a lost driver is a distracted driver. More importantly, a distracted driver is a dangerous driver. Additionally, enterprise maps will have the most up-to-date traffic information, so drivers will spend less time stuck in traffic if the routes navigate to a less busy road.

Loading of truck/vehicle

Just how efficiently and carefully your merchandise is organised and loaded into vehicles can make all the difference between time, profit and loss. Managing a growing range of incompatible container shapes and sizes, along with various vehicle types and sudden schedule changes, you can quickly find yourself tied up with one crisis after another. A truck driver loses time when merchandise is not loaded in order delivery from last order first to first order last. This saves considerable time on the road for the driver who needs to locate each parcel or box. Additionally, it’s important that the driver then keeps to the plan, so there are no issues with the order of the load in the truck.

Parking

What happens when a driver can’t find a park at a delivery point? They are inconvenienced and need to spend extra time scrambling to find one of a limited number of spots in a specific area to park while dropping off a delivery. This eats up time and contributes to driver frustration which can have a knock-on effect on driver safety. Using technology that stores information on parking in a specific area can be of great benefit.

There are a number of things that can affect time and the efficiency of your operations.

Contact Market Motion today if you want to know what you can do to assess time in more detail and solutions to improve the efficiency of your operations.

* Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in the USA.

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