6 Frequent Problems When You Don’t Have Trailer Tracking

Owning your own trailer fleet, or having enough control over a third party carrier, makes it much easier to manage the shipment of goods from your yard or warehouse. It also gives you the freedom to install a GPS tracking device for trailers that are frequently used. If you haven’t yet added trailer tracking to your fleet, you may be familiar with some of these frequent problems.

It’s impossible to grow your business without customers, and it’s impossible to please customers if your shipments are always arriving late. To maintain great relationships with your customers, you need to be able to let them know exactly when their delivery will arrive. If you know it’s going to be late, it’s better to let them know ahead of time and do all you can to amend the situation. This way, even when things don’t go according to plan, you don’t ruin the customer relationship. With real-time location data on each trailer on you can provide complete transparency with each part of the logistics journey.

Trailer pools are designed to provide agility to the trucking/freight industry, this mobility is only enhanced with the implementation of advanced GPS tracking and an all-encompassing asset management to your trailer fleet. Without GPS tracking for trailers, you run the risk of having too few trailers in your pool. If this happens, you may end up paying hefty fines for a breach of contract. Having a GPS solution allows a dispatcher to efficiently move trailers around without paperwork, spreadsheets, or phone calls, and ensures trailer pools are stocked as you maximize the utilization of each trailer in your fleet.

If your drivers are not allowed to touch the contents they’re hauling, they may end up spending too much time waiting for the receiving company to unload it for them. With trailer tracking installed, you can know exactly when your driver arrives at the company, and how long he had to wait for the company to unload his trailer. Then, you can properly assess and bill detention fees with evidence and put pressure on your clients to expedite their unloading so you can ensure each trailer is being optimized to its fullest potential.

It’s very common for a trailer to be unloaded and left at a yard, then completely forgotten about by both the company and the driver. When trailers in your fleet go unused, you lose money, plain and simple. A trailer tracking system enables you to keep an eye on every trailer all the time. That way, no trailer ever goes missing and you can make the most of each asset in your fleet as you maximize your per-asset ROI and reduce spending on new assets.

Theft is common with any asset, so tracking for this purpose is a no-brainer. However, trucking companies also deal with disgruntled employees. Drivers will get mad or simply decide that another load will pay them more. So they drop the trailer they’re hauling in any random parking lot, and take off without a word.

Lost or damaged trailers can cost you and your insurance company a lot of money. In fact, many insurance companies offer discounts if you use trailer tracking devices. Being able to recover the trailer instead of having to pay out for one is a huge relief to your potential customer’s insurance company along with your overall peace of mind.

CallPass offers a variety of options to equip your trailer tracking system with exactly the tools you need to prevent lost and stolen trailers, late shipments, long detention times, and low trailer pool inventory. To learn more about how we can put these tools to use for your trucking company, please give us a call to schedule your free demo.