Improve Your Bottom Line with Digitized Trucking

Putting shippers in the driver’s seat

Rising transportation costs, a growing driver shortage, new federal regulations, continued growth in e-commerce along with changing consumer expectations are converging to make transporting freight pretty difficult for truckload shippers these days.

Add the coronavirus to the equation, and you wind up with a challenging transportation environment that’s creating multiple pain points for logistics, supply chain, and transportation professionals.

The Answer: Digitized trucking and logistics.

Taking truckload transportation management to new heights

Guaranteeing new levels of capacity, rate transparency, real-time data analytics, and tracking, digital freight matching platforms like Convoy are taking truckload transportation management to new heights in today’s capacity-constrained freight environment.

“Digitized trucking platforms aren’t brokerages…In fact, many asset-based carriers use brokerages to fulfill their loads. Digital freight capacity isn’t a broker, and it isn’t an asset carrier. Digital freight capacity is the third type of provider.”

Anheuser-Busch uses digitized trucking to explore opportunities to optimize its vast transportation network

America’s leading brewer uses digital freight providers such as Convoy to optimize its transportation network, gain new levels of visibility, and improve the driver experience.

Ready to improve its distribution approach while gaining better levels of shipment visibility, Anheuser-Busch learned that companies like Convoy were using technology to match shippers with trucking services in a reliable, transparent, and efficient manner.

Focused on creating a better integration with its driver-carrier network, while also developing a more efficient network overall, the company started using Convoy’s digital freight matching platform amongst other partnerships.

Fighting the capacity crunch with a digital freight capacity platform

Convoy helps Southwest Traders, Inc., create a more efficient, streamlined transportation network for its 5-state operation.

Along with the speedier freight procurement times, Southwest Traders’ logistics team has also saved money and been able to save its energy and time for more important tasks. In the midst of several organizational changes right now, the company plans to expand its use of the Convoy platform in the near future.

Digitized trucking and logistics

When shippers use digitized trucking and logistics to offset the truckload capacity crunch, everyone wins.

Using Convoy’s digital tools, shippers gain realtime visibility into their shipments’ locations that, in turn, translates into higher reliability and better synchronization with carriers (e.g., knowing where a vehicle is going to be within a 15-minute timeframe).

This helps shippers shorten appointment windows, extract better efficiencies from their warehouses and docks, and turn trucks around faster.

Is your transportation network a “black hole”?

If you're using email, phone calls, spreadsheets, and clipboards to run your organization’s transportation network it’s no wonder that network has become a sort of “black hole” within your operations. With truckload capacity crunches, driver shortages, and changing government regulations impacting the industry, the time has come to replace those antiquated systems - along with the belief that there are only two types of carriers (asset-based or non-asset-based) - and bring your shipping operation into the future.