BeyondTrucks launched its Trailer Yard Module, a new functionality designed to provide private and specialized fleets deeper visibility into trailer location and status, as well as advanced real-time trailer pool management capabilities to help improve utilization.
“To ensure high service levels, private and specialized fleets have a tremendous amount of capital tied up in trailers,” says Hans Galland, CEO of BeyondTrucks. “Improving utilization is extremely valuable both financially and operationally, and it starts with better information, by knowing where trailers are, their current status, and whether they’re suitable for a specific activity. “
“Our Trailer Yard Module aggregates real-time data from dispatch activities, trailer tracking technology and physical yard checks to streamline coordination, and feeds into the AI-enabled optimization capabilities of our platform to manage both costs and service levels,” Galland adds.
Key takeaways:
· The Trailer Yard Module is delivered as an integrated capability within the BeyondTrucks platform. For customers without an existing yard management solution, it provides essential yard and trailer visibility. For larger fleets with an established solution, the BeyondTrucks platform complements and interfaces directly with the existing system to improve the load planning, dispatch, and back-office operations.
· Key capabilities include location visibility to compare last dispatched location, physically tracked location, and yard check location, and alert both dispatchers and yard teams to discrepancies; trailer status visibility to provide real-time granular trailer state updates collected by drivers or in physical yard checks; driver and yard workflow integration to initiate wash, maintenance, repositioning, or pre-loading activities; driver decision making for leveraging alerts and validation with BeyondTrucks to prevent drivers from making the wrong trailer choices; dispatch decision making for leveraging compatibility checks and alerts within the BeyondTrucks dispatch portal to streamline processes and avoid dispatch errors; and load planning optimization for users of the BeyondTrucks optimization solution to incorporate real time granular trailer state, location and availability data into the load planning process.
“With real-time visibility, specialty and private fleets can assign the right trailer with confidence,” says Natasha Martinez, head of fleet success at BeyondTrucks. “The BeyondTrucks Trailer Yard Module addresses long-standing gaps between yard and traditional transportation management systems by connecting real-time operational data directly into our platform, enabling dispatchers to make faster, more accurate decisions.”
