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1. Stop making safety personnel copy/import data into fragile spreadsheets.
2. Use location info so dispatchers and managers can see their entire fleet's real-time positions directly from Kamion's truckboard.
3. Be reminded automatically about safety alerts via HoS info.
4. Automatically massage mileage reports and location breadcrumbs into instant IFTA report sheets.
What is Kamion?
Kamion is an intelligent truck management software to help dispatchers optimize driver’s time on the road. All your carrier operations in one place: accounting, billing, safety checks, fleet visibility, tracking, reporting, and more. All brought together to maximize your business.
EASY PLANNING
How often do you book loads last minute? Monitor how many trucks you have empty so you know exactly where and when you need loads, and automatically get matched loads to those empty locations.
ZERO EFFORT TRACKING
How often do customers ask for ETAs?Share real-time updating tracking links for every load, giving your customers unparalleled and full visibility over their loads with zero back and forth.
NO MORE SAFETY HEADACHES
Compliance standards get stricter every year Track existing documents and receive automatic reminders when you need a safety or maintenance check and are on the verge of a costly oversight.
Kamion.Io is a new and innovative digital carrier platform that focuses on SAFETY, Dispatch and Accounting modules. It can be integrated practically with everything that you use in your day to day operations.
What we like most about our new partners is that they care about your safety and have created a module that integrates with your log book provider, fuel cards, factoring, our data, DAT and of course Quick books!
If you are our inhouse client you will experience first hand how their software works and how beneficial it can be to your company.
Mention our name and get a month free and a significant discount!
Put your ELDs to work & take back time for your back-office
The ELD mandate, which became mandatory at the end of 2017, was greeted by a chorus of resentment from across the country’s truck drivers. The flexibility that trucking had allowed for many drivers seemingly vanished overnight, leaving many unsure if they could support their families. Today, an echo of this sentiment remains: drivers hate ELDs. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
When used correctly, ELDs actually create more flexibility than before, automating manual tasks that take way too much time and better informing your decisions on how you manage fleets and fill trucks. The key is organizing the ELD data and connecting it seamlessly to the areas of your business that can use it, like safety and dispatch.
This, however, is easier said than done, which is why many negative feelings still exist today.
Kamion is a digital carrier platform, a multidimensional tool that creates connections between many parts of the business. Now, the data your ELD data tracks in a truck can more easily be connected to your back-office, dispatchers, and more.
Here’s How
An ELD monitors a vehicle’s engine to capture data on whether the engine is running, whether the vehicle is moving, distance driven, and duration of engine operation. With seamless access to data points like these and others, carriers can save time and money by ensuring compliance with several norms including Hours of Service (HoS) and fuel tax reports (IFTA).
Knowing the location of your fleet also helps dispatchers predict and act on potential downtime more accurately. Additionally, customers tend to call carriers multiple times per load cycle to request tracking information.
Looking for New Equipment:
U.S. trailer orders dropped below 17,000 in October, according to industry forecaster FTR, far below a year ago when orders reached almost 55,000.
The supply chain remains clogged and labor availability is restricted due to well workers not wanting to work.
The challenge for many trailer makers is not to acquire more backlog but to manage the backlog they have, so many are not taking any orders.
What happens is that we are now experiencing unseen costs of old trailer sale. So if you have an old trailer and you want to make a lot of money, now is the time to SELL SELL SELL.
Currently old 2015-2016 trailer are going for the exact same sales price as brand new 2023 trailer.
Who is FTR?
FTR is the industry source for Transportation Intelligence. From freight demand to system capacity to equipment production, FTR adds over 270 years of industry experience into business decision-making. Our subscribers rely on FTR’s freight forecasting trends for improved forecasting in shipping, trucking, rail, intermodal, equipment, and financial communities.
According to FTR, Fleets need lots of new trailers; however, the manufacturers are being careful about how and when to slot these commitments into the build schedule. Monthly order numbers continue to understate the true demand.
What are OEMs doing?
Companies held back waiting for more clarity on the supply chain that has fostered a new operational model for managing uncertainties, Frank Maly, ACT’s director of commercial vehicle transportation analysis stated.
One trailer maker creating an hourly bonus if workers show up for a full work week — to ensure the manufacturer had a consistent staff level. Even with that, they still have issues with people showing up five days in a row, Maly said.
The broad shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic’s early days has forced people to redetermine what is most important in life. Employees are wondering what’s really important to them and how much money they really need.
At the same time, notions about what a basic trailer is and what it must have on it are changing to emphasize the equipment’s intelligence. The focus on smart trailers, is guided by operational improvements, emerging food safety regulations and the advances of the autonomous trucks.
“The pandemic just slowed down some of the transitions in technology. They haven’t stopped,” FTR said. “The pandemic and the supply chain issue right now have just overridden a lot of that.”
Where are the trailers?
Hyundai Translead
Has recently opened quotes and orders for 2022.
“We anticipate that we will fill quickly for 2022,” said Sean Kenney, chief sales officer at Hyundai Translead. “It is highly doubtful that the industry will be able to produce enough equipment to meet the demand for the year.”
He agreed the supply chain remains very challenged on multiple fronts.
Stoughton Trailers
Stoughton continues to pass on price increases and although customers do not like this, “none of ours have walked away,” said David Giesen, vice president of sales at Stoughton. “As a matter of fact, our customers keep asking for more trailers, even as we hand them a price increase.” He said Stoughton does not have an “order board open for all” simply because there still is too much uncertainty in costs, availability and labor.
Great Dane
Great Dane has the order board open for a portion of the year, said Chris Hammond, executive vice president of sales at Great Dane.
“Customer demand continues to be above capacity for all trailer manufacturers.” He added: “I think employee retention is a concern for anybody in the U.S. doing business and we are not immune to that situation.”
Great Dane sees six trends that will define the future of truck and trailer connectivity:
Increased use of electronic control units in trailers.
Advances in edge computing
Autonomous vehicles will command how connectors are designed.
Changes in the physical shape of trucks and trailers will determine the needs of the new units.
There will be deeper collaboration between truck and trailer manufacturers
Improvements in manufacturing and implementation will help scale these new technologies and help bring them to market.
