4 Top Challenges Facing Logistics Companies (and What To Do About Them)

These struggles are real.

You should consider automating your data entry processes with an effective fleet management software solution. All these operational struggles can easily be overcome by installing GPS tracking devices in your trucks.

You may avoid all the paperwork as the fleet management system can automatically track and store almost all the details regarding vehicle, and present it in a user-friendly form (Reports) when needed.

Let me highlight a few of the most pressing issues and provide insights into how AVLView fleet management platform can address them head-on.

1. Challenges in managing a fleet of vehicles

Issue 1 - You struggle managing trucks spread across multiple locations.

No. It’s not about the numbers.

Whether your fleet is two or two hundred, it won’t matter how big or small it is if you don’t serve your customers on time, every time.

To serve your customers across the region, you must have a firm grip on the vehicles plying across the areas. Especially if you have operations spread across state lines and even international borders.

Instead of making phone calls checking drivers’ position, pinpointing which driver has completed runs, and which ones have not. AVLView allows you to better utilize operating vehicles, without relying on words from the driver.

For the vehicles plying in a particular region, you can assign a group name of your choice.

Adding vehicles to a group helps the staff in charge of a particular region to be fully in control of the vehicles plying in that area.

In the following example, the vehicles are grouped according to drivers in charge of vehicles plying in a particular region.

In the case below, the staff who handles the group Malappuram can have access to anything related to that particular group.

You can filter and view all the vehicles belonging to a particular group over a map.

You may group vehicles according to vehicle type such as Vans, Cranes, Double Crown Trucks etc.

Issue 2 - Struggling to keep up with the current location of the trucks

It`s all about useful information regarding your fleet readily available to you — not just any data, but the data that is timely and accurate.

AVLView’s data is refreshed every 5-10 seconds providing each vehicle’s exact position on the map. With arrows showing the route that any chosen vehicle has taken.

The screen is auto-refreshed so that you can follow your vehicle’s movement hands-free. You can also zoom to view a higher detailed map, including street address, along with the current status of your vehicle.

And the updates can be shared so that your customers can track the real time location of the vehicle until delivery.

Alternatively you may pull the ‘Vehicle Current Status’ report with the current location, group, driver and current status of the vehicle (Engine idle, off or moving).

In addition to the current location, historical data of the fleet is available for over one year with the possibility of viewing past vehicle tracks data for 30 days at a time.

The past tracks cover details of routes through which the vehicle travelled for the previous 30 days, the date of journey, time, group, driver etc.

Issue 3 - No control over fuel theft

Truck owners often complain of fuel pilferage as the number one issue they face as it results in an adverse impact on their profitability.

The one sure solution is the use of fuel sensors.

Fuel rod sensors, digital ones, are used as a standard fuel level sensor or as an additional sensor to be used with tank monitoring systems, vehicle tracking systems or fleet automation systems like AVLView.

It helps to

• to obtain reliable information about current fuel volume in the vehicle tank;
• to define the vehicle fueling volume;
• to detect possible fuel theft from the container;
• to carry out the remote tank monitoring;
• to determine fuel consumption.

It is useful for fuel level measurement in vehicles such as Trucks, Lorry, Bus, Jcb where the fuel tank is separate/external or below the driver`s cabinet.

To monitor fuel theft, you can set conditions on AVLView platform according to your requirement.

See below; the user has set the condition to be alerted if the quantity of fuel drained is more than 5 litres.

You may as well specify the staff to notify in case of fuel drain.

You may opt to receive notifications via SMS, Mobile (Push notifications), Email and Pop-up window on a web browser.

In case of a fuel drain, you will be alerted immediately.