Asset & Trailer Tracking Solutions Combat Heightened Fuel Costs

Rising fuel costs in the United States are now a top concern for companies that are moving freight and involved in logistics journeys across all industries. GPS trailer tracking solutions, such as CallPass products and services, provide companies with premium security and management capabilities powered by real-time asset tracking devices and equipment that can help combat this fear.

For most trucking companies, fuel costs are their second-largest expenditure behind employee wages, representing 24% of overall company costs. While larger freight carriers can negotiate better rates to deliver goods, smaller logistics coordinators are not often afforded this luxury. Now that fuel prices are soaring, many companies are forced to watch their profits shrink.

While this issue affects the transportation trucking industry, it can truly impact any business with multiple assets in motion. Let’s examine how GPS asset and trailer tracking software relieves the burden of increasing fuel costs.

With ever-growing modern technology, Organizations of all sizes are constantly looking for solutions to improve their operations and give them another edge over the competition and combat volatile market factors such as heightened fuel costs.

A solution that does just this is the CallPass’ LANA™ Asset advanced asset tracking solution, which delivers real-time access and visibility to each asset in an organization’s fleet. With customizable alerts and notifications, reporting, and more; LANA^TM Asset has raised the bar for asset visibility, utilization, scalability, analytics, and wireless sensing.

Asset tracking solutions such as LANA™ Asset, specialize in trailer tracking and can help organizations understand where to focus their efforts. It allows every department (dispatching, accounting, sales, or service) to review their entire operating system. A wide range of industries can benefit from LANA™ Asset tracking by using it to analyze data regarding their cargo, including how to lower costs and protect drivers.

Similarly, CallPass’ LANA™ Fleet dashcam video platform includes cloud-based technology using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize any commercial fleet. Features of this dashcam include long battery life and scheduled alerts that function in extreme hot and cold temperatures. Without a doubt, these dash cams keep operations moving smoothly. Track vehicle collisions and any nearby movement 24/7 for real-time footage in the event of a critical accident. The LANA™ Fleet dashcam can be used as video evidence in a court of law.

Built specifically with trailers in mind, the dynamic duo of LANA Asset x LANA Vision, a trailer tracking and cargo monitoring solution, is the ultimate tool for achieving the highest performance levels in transportation. With clear cargo visuals, you can ensure a half-filled trailer never leaves your yard by capitalizing on the extra floor space by notifying the driver along its initial route to pick up a load to maximize carrying capacity and revenue potential. A far more time and cost-efficient way to manage freight operations as compared to not recognizing the opportunity at hand and redeploying another truck and trailer full of high-priced gasoline.

Choose The Most Efficient (fuel-saving) Routes.

Oftentimes your drivers must drive to unfamiliar and even remote locations when transporting trailers they should be provided with efficient routes to ensure less time on the road and less fuel consumed. On top of trailer tracking, you can also implement a commercial fleet dashcam

solution for your trucks to help optimize their specific routes for when trailers are detached. These dual HD dash cameras provide much more than simple GPS Tracking and live video. With advanced ADAS technology you can view the number of times a vehicle stops, starts, idles, and more… all of which have an enormous effect on the amount of fuel it’s burning. In fact, idling is one of the biggest fuel drainers.

Program Maintenance Alerts For Optimal Trailer Management.

A well-maintained trailer can help you get better gas mileage. Due to hectic scheduling and delivery timelines, prioritizing vehicle maintenance can often go to the backburner. Advanced asset tracking allows companies and drivers to program maintenance alerts ahead of time for each trailer in their fleet. Easily program alert notifications for either email or SMS to be notified when a specific trailer is ready for new tires and an inspection based on miles driven.

Never Forget/Misplace a Trailer Again Forcing More Fuel Used Utilizing Another

Real-time GPS tracking allows companies to locate every available trailer in their fleet and utilize the closest one to complete a specific job, saving priceless time and effort. Surprisingly one of the most common issues for companies managing large trailer pools is simple misplacement or lost trailers. Trailers are unloaded and left at a yard, job site, etc then completely forgotten about by both the company and the driver. Used trailers = money lost. A trailer tracking system enables you to keep an eye on every trailer all the time ensuring every trailer is kept tabs on and you never waste valuable resources of time and fuel costs on tracking down a trailer or going out of the way when would is close by.