Whitepapers

We’re all aware of the great safety benefits of in-cab video telematics. However, in this MiX Telematics white paper we shift the focus to the many ways it can improve fleet efficiency, assist with driver training and reduce costs.

Download this simple, 7-step guide to learn: 

• How to vet ELDs for accuracy & reliability
• Key considerations for easy implementation and onboarding for both drivers and back-office staff
• Essential questions to ask for picking a device that will meet your business goals

This whitepaper provides a strategic blueprint and resources for asset-based companies to start and grow a brokerage. The opportunities in the market are ripe for companies of any size.

Logistics and supply chain research and consulting firm Armstrong & Associates estimates that net revenues for U.S.-based 3PLs grew by five percent in 2017 to hit $77.1 billion, and gross revenues rose 10.5 percent to reach $184.3 million. The firm predicted revenue growth in 2018 would continue at a similar rate.

Is your organization failing its customers with inefficient master routes that haven’t been updated? We’ll explore how best practices of continuous strategic routing and regular delivery network re-routes can boost distribution efficiency, reduce costs and most importantly, keep your customers happy.

In this MiX Telematics white paper, we discuss the large impact of fuel costs on fleets, how to measure fuel consumption, the factors that influence fuel consumption and 7 ways you can easily reduce fuel costs.

Fleet safety managers often face problems unique to their fleets; however, there are some unavoidable problems that every fleet faces at some point. Effective coaching strategies and best practices are the keys to tackling these issues head-on before they escalate.

Rising insurance rates can put pressure on your bottom line. Read how lowering your Inspection Selection Score (ISS) can make your company more attractive to customers, drivers and even insurance companies.

It’s often said in business that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. SmartIQ analytics help fleet managers to understand how their fleet is performing and answer key questions—not just about safety performance, but also driving and coaching performance, fuel consumption, idling, vehicle use and much more. 

The importance of driver training must not be underestimated. In this MiX Telematics white paper we discuss why it’s so vital, the roots of effective learning and how to combine psychology with telematics to get optimal training results.

As a carrier enrolled in the New Entrant program, you will, at some point experience a New Entrant Audit. This is the whitepaper for transportation safety professionals looking to gain insight into whether they will receive a Pass or Fail rating.

Banks are eager to compete for your business. These eight must-have attributes will help you evaluate and choose a partner that’s dedicated to providing you with the capital, relationships and technology your business needs to keep growing and thriving.

Choosing the right fleet maintenance provider for your national program can be a daunting task. Amerit’s CEO, Dan Williams, shares 5 essential tips for eliminating the risk and ensuring your success in choosing the right single source provider for your fleet.

If you have concerns about switching to biodiesel blends, hearing an experienced diesel technician’s opinion might help. After all, who knows diesel engines better? Read this white paper to hear from experienced techs on how well biodiesel performs for their fleets.

It’s not easy to get a trucking business moving. This guide will help you uncover tips to save money and be more efficient. Learn what investment capital and operating capital you need to get started and how to operate at a higher profit margin.

Discover how the ELD Mandate continues to affect over three million drivers and get the tools you need to start planning for the end of the automatic onboard recording device (AOBRD) grandfather clause.

Trucking companies using weigh station bypass transponders and apps save time and money. However, each system operates differently – what works well for one fleet, may not work for another. A whitepaper from PrePass helps determine which is best for you.

With the help of Bobit Research Services, MiX Telematics surveyed a range of US fleet professionals on ELD compliance. The survey focused on ELD adoption within US fleets and how the data from full-featured ELD solutions are being implemented.

The results are in! Our 3rd annual Transportation Management Survey findings provide an inside look at the growing importance of transportation management. Understand what top trends are affecting industry leader’s tactics and use of technology in relation to financial performance.

By December, you must transition from AOBRDs to ELDs. It’s crucial that you allow enough runway to research options and plan carefully to get the best result. Use this guide to prepare your organization and set up a smooth transition.

Whether you have one truck or one hundred, a fuel card can provide many benefits to your company. With so many fuel card options out there, it can be challenging to know how to choose the right one. When making your selection, you want to walk away knowing you’ve got the best card to meet the unique needs of your business.

In this white paper from MiX Telematics, we discuss why ELD compliance is so important, the consequences of non-compliance, how to choose the perfect vendor for your needs and the unexpected benefits of ELD compliance for your fleet

In this whitepaper, we provide actionable insights into how you can expand your driver recruitment pool, shorten the onboarding process to ensure your drivers make it to orientation, and identify and retain your best drivers for years to come.

In today’s post ELD Mandate world, every minute can make a difference in productivity and profitability. Learn how a simple app can save time, boost driver retention and get added back end office benefits, including real time weigh data.

Banks are eager to compete for your business. These eight must-have attributes will help you evaluate and choose a partner that’s dedicated to providing you with the capital, relationships and technology your business needs to keep growing and thriving.

Technology plays a major role in fleet safety as well as driver retention. It has the ability to facilitate better communication between managers and drivers, gather insights and record metrics regarding fleet performance, and help support drivers make informed decisions about driving conditions in real-time.

Billions of everyday objects connect over the web to improve our lives in the Internet of Things (IoT). See how the technology is evolving in our industry – and how that technology can help you reduce costs.

In this white paper from MiX Telematics, we look at the unique challenges service fleets have to overcome and the specific ways in which a telematics solution can fix these.

As the leading nationwide provider of fleet maintenance programs, Amerit has extensive expertise in overcoming the challenges and pitfalls of vendor consolidation. Amerit’s experts have broken down the process into three levels, providing thoughts on the benefits, how to’s and challenges.

A Learning Management System (LMS) positively impacts driver onboarding, safety, and your bottom line. This comprehensive eBook explores various orientation approaches and content types, the impact of an integrated solution, factors to consider when evaluating an LMS, and more.

Coaching drivers – with video – is the best way to improve safety in your fleet. Not only will you experience fewer collisions (and near collisions), but you’ll experience savings throughout your fleet and an improved safety culture.

What is biodiesel and how could it benefit you? Get straight answers on how biodiesel is made, its affect on fleet performance, how it reduces emissions, and the business advantages of using biodiesel blends to fuel your fleet.

With high quality, reliable and structured data, fleet executives have a competitive advantage. With impactful and actionable information, they can zero in on problems that have the biggest impact on asset utilization and performance. Read Three Great Ways to Use Decisiv Analytics to learn more.

This MiX Telematics white paper examines the complex subject of machine learning and how it’s changing the telematics reporting landscape. It also looks at practical examples of how it is already improving fleet management’s ability to meet specific business needs.

Transportation professionals are being challenged to operate more efficiently, consequently embracing real-time capabilities of freight visibility for improved performance. To realize the maximum value from their investment, top-performing companies look to these best practices for implementing a visibility tool.

Do you know what is involved in (DOT)/FMCSA compliance audits? Do you know if you’ll be selected for an audit? Are you ready for one? This whitepaper helps answer those questions and shows the benefits of conducting a mock audit.

Over the past decade, despite a number of technological advances, commercial driver retention has not improved. Here are 6 steps for fleet managers to consider when building an “engaged” driver environment- that will set fleets up for keeping drivers long-term.

Trucking companies using weigh station bypass services save time and money. However, each system operates differently, meaning what works well for one fleet, doesn’t automatically work for another. A whitepaper from PrePass helps fleets make this important decision.

Of all the costs associated with vehicle ownership, maintenance is probably the highest. The latest MiX Telematics white paper explains how to drastically reduce these maintenance costs by simply utilizing the reporting and automating capabilities of a full-featured telematics solution.

The operating cost of a work truck can far outweigh the acquisition cost based on maintenance, repairs, fuel economy, and more. Knowing where vehicles are in relation to customers’ needs is vital.

Interline payables processing is easily one of the most important and time consuming processes your business will try to manage. We break down the three biggest speed bumps in the process and ways to avoid them altogether.

Tracking is a well-known telematics feature, but it’s just the start of what telematics can do. In the latest white paper from MiX Telematics, we’ll explore how monitoring and analyzing driver hours can drastically improve a fleet's safety, efficiency and compliance.

One of the hardest tasks fleet’s face when initiating a safety culture – or even a safety policy – is ensuring buy-in from throughout the organization. Download Selling Safety and learn how to “sell” your safety message to executives, managers and drivers.

Driver-facing apps offer drivers insight into the telematics data that their day-to-day tasks rely on. This white paper from MiX Telematics explores why these types of apps are important. It also looks at the benefits of using certain features, like task management and trip classification.

Learn how to take advantage of real time analytics and route optimization tools, new trends in driver behavior analysis to enhance safety, and how location data and services can position your business as the fleet and logistics solutions provider of choice.

Understand the challenges that roadblock Transport & Logistics companies and develop software that will revolutionize fleet management. Enable fleet operators to make faster decisions, that can lead to superior customer service, increased revenues, and reduced costs to the business.

The value of safety should be woven throughout the culture of every transportation organization. In this white paper we explore historical trends, current processes, best practices, and the use of technology to support a safety-based culture.

Knowledge is power - ELD connectivity gives fleets the information they seek to make data-driven business decisions, minimize the cost of operations, and maximize profits. In this whitepaper, KeepTruckin dives deep into the importance of big data for fleet managers and motor carriers, and how they can utilize the information and analytics to improve their business operations.

The telematics industry is moving towards self-service in an effort to improve customer experience and the sometimes long-winded implementation process. This MiX Telematics white paper explores this trend and the many benefits it can provide to customers and telematics companies.

Recruiting new drivers is hard. That’s why many trucking companies make it their primary mission to retain the drivers they already have. And, with so many retention program options, it’s imperative to know what’s working and what’s most effective.

Features offered by telematics technology – like driver behavior monitoring, live tracking and reporting – are very important. However, your telematics partner must be able to provide supporting services and guidance that extend beyond the technology to help your fleet achieve business objectives and maximum return on investment. This white paper explores why Service for Life is a critical component in the success of your telematics journey.

Tracking and locating your most valuable assets can increase security - that’s a given. But did you know that asset management software offers many additional benefits that will make your fleet safer, more efficient and compliant?

The best-run fleets are using their data-driven reward program as a differentiator to attract and retain quality drivers. Learn why encouraging safe driving with a data-driven rewards program can be far less expensive than paying for risky driving that results in collisions and claims.

We’ve changed service management forever. But don’t take it from us. Read real-life stories about how manufacturers, dealers, call centers, service networks, managed maintenance providers, and fleets are using Decisiv Service Relationship Management (SRM) technology to improve asset utilization and performance.

This Descartes benchmark study identifies the key trends, tactics and technologies impacting logistics service providers (LSPs) in 2018. We’ll explore the strategic importance of transportation management technology and how its value is measured today and for future investment.

MiX Telematics surveyed 145 fleet professionals across the US in 2018. The aim of the survey was to see the telematics concerns of fleets and the ELD mandate’s impact. This white paper gives an in-depth overview of the results.

This white paper provides an overview of machine learning, and how machine learning is impacting and improving the trucking industry now and in the future.

Incentivizing safe driving helps attract new drivers, retain current drivers and ensures a safer fleet. To do so, many fleets have adopted a data-driven driver incentive program and are seeing great results. Find out how by downloading the new eBook, Paying for Safety: Incenting Drivers to Increase Retention.

Maximum route profitability and compliance. Accurate equipment, load and route matching. Understanding your results and finding spots to improve is the route to final mile success. Learn to boost your final mile with key BI metrics and 7 steps for success.

Find out how MiX Telematics’s in-cab video solution helped a well-known oilfield services company become ELD compliant while giving them the perfect opportunity to recommit to their promise of safety.

CAT Scale's Weigh My Truck app allows drivers to pay for and receive their weights right from the cab using a smartphone or tablet; saving up to 30 minutes per weigh. Fleets have access to valuable back end data and payment control.

In today’s competitive market, using the right transportation provider is essential. Working with intermodal transportation providers with owned assets will help shippers gain reliable, predictable and even increased capacity from an end-to-end asset-based solution – keeping shipments moving and costs in check.

Learn how Swift Transportation uses INFORM Safety software to identify specific safety score issues and trends, and then develop safety programs to improve their operation. One result of their safety programs was a 20% reduction in inadvertent weigh station bypass events. Download now!

CAT Scale's Weigh My Truck app allows drivers to pay for and receive their weights right from the cab using a smartphone or tablet; saving up to 30 minutes per weigh. Fleets have access to valuable back end data and payment control.

When implementing a telematics solution, an in-depth telematics policy goes hand-in-hand with achieving driver buy-in: it defines why telematics is necessary, how the system works, and why drivers must use it. MiX Telematics recommends these essential elements to ensure the success of your telematics policy.

What does it take for drivers and assets to be worthy of your company’s name? After all, they represent your company in a highly visible way every day they are on the road as your moving billboards. Fleetworthy believes the only way to safeguard your business – and the public’s safety – is to operate at a higher standard. To insist on not just meeting the minimum standard requirements, but exceeding them.

Fleet rightsizing — it’s a task many organizations have had to deal with in recent years. If your fleet includes trailers, rightsizing should include these expensive assets. Learn more about the techniques to trailer rightsizing and how it benefits fleet operations.

Blockchain has already disrupted industries like financial services and it can be an important next step for IoT in transportation telematics. Learn the benefits of blockchain and understand its potential applications in transportation in this new white paper.

Gamification can play an instrumental role in improving driving behavior by engaging and incentivizing your drivers. Our guide will provide you with the knowledge and ability to successfully implement gamification in your fleet today.

How Asset Owners and Service Providers Use Their Data to Drive Asset Performance and Value  - Data holds the promise to unleash unrivaled asset performance and utilization--but only if it’s collected, analyzed, organized, and presented in a useful fashion. Check out these 3 ways fleets and service providers are using data in the Decisiv Service Relationship Management (SRM) platform to drive improved service event management.

Best-run fleets are using their data-driven rewards program as a differentiator to attract and retain quality drivers. They use monthly or quarterly driver scorecards based on comprehensive safety, fuel and operational data to develop and retain quality drivers.

Energize your recruiting strategy with practical steps that pack a punch in battling the driver shortage for your carrier. Want to know more? Read on … we promise not to waste your time.

This white paper provides an overview of cybersecurity for connected fleets and outlines frequently-asked questions and answers about data security, wireless vulnerabilities and considerations for carriers seeking the most secure fleet management technology.

From rating and billing to optimizing operations and business processes, Blockchain applications are poised to have a significant impact for transportation and logistics companies. To start understanding what Blockchain technology will do for your company’s business, and how it can create competitive advantages, download our guide.

The ELD Mandate went into effect last December and it included a grandfather clause, a two-year period to convert AOBRDs to ELDs. Read this white paper to understand the grandfather clause and learn how leading fleet Crete Carrier Corporation is navigating it. 

From grasping basics to applying Blockchain technology in the transportation space, Tim Leonard, Hortonwork’s 2017 data visionary of the year demonstrates how building your Blockchain system will give you a clear competitive edge to conducting business successfully.

As many in the industry know, driver retention has historically been an issue – with no clear solution. In this whitepaper, we provide insight to driver demands and the strategies and tools carriers can implement to reverse the driver turnover trend.

Although they’re undoubtedly experts in the trucking industry, the folks at E.M. Tharp/Golden State Peterbilt admit they weren’t so great at credit and collections. Find out what happened when they entrusted accounts receivable management to Interstate Billing Service.

With the ELD Mandate deadline looming, fleets are understandably focused on ensuring they’re compliant. But many fleets are planning to minimally comply – for them, ELDs will always be a cost center. For fleets taking a long-term view, however, ELDs can mean profit.

Crafted by Hortonworks' 2017 Data Visionary Tim Leonard, this whitepaper is the authority on how big data can supplement your analytics and help your company now. Make faster, more informed decisions at the operational and strategic levels to drive innovation.

This report illustrates the results achieved by three different companies when they questioned whether it was better to lease or own their fleet. How did their decision affect not only their transportation costs, but how their business runs?

In this new white paper, learn how innovative technology provides new and more comprehensive ways to keep vehicles and people safer, as well as ways to avoid the risk and high costs that unsafe transportation practices create.

Escalating costs are causing fleet owners to take a closer look at their total cost of ownership (TCO). But when doing so, many don’t take into account all the factors that make up their TCO and make generic comparisons that can be misleading. In this report, you’ll learn all the components that need to be calculated for an accurate TCO, and how a tool developed by Ryder helps fleet owners understand their costs, while saving money on their transportation spend.

Having the right fleet for your business can give you an advantage over the competition and lower transportation costs. The question is: Should that fleet be private or dedicated. Learn how you can answer that in this report.

To stay in top shape, your fleet needs to be well maintained. But that in itself can pose challenges – from managing several local providers to paying inconsistent rates and not being able to get your truck in the shop at a moment’s notice. 

For the past decade and a half, those who predicted the driver shortage have offered their advice on curbing the shortage. While an abundance of information like this exists, it lacks one of the main insights companies can use to overcome the shortage and high turnover – the voice of truck drivers.

A plan for Unique Electronic Identification devices to be on most commercial vehicles would allow law enforcement to identify and monitor the condition of trucks and drivers on the highways. This raises concerns about privacy and the costs and benefits.