The RHA’s 10th National Lorry Week is all about skills and careers. At GoMetro we recognise drivers and operators’ invaluable role in UK logistics.
UK logistics is worth £185bn annually, with 89% of all freight moving by road. That makes the UK’s 275 000 HGV drivers so valuable – something worth celebrating during National Lorry Week.
Bridge builds your virtual fleet
All employees value data management to derisk and enhance their working environment. Using the best technology to safeguard and secure your drivers and vehicles is crucial to a profitable and sustainable transport business. GoMetro’s Bridge platform is a telematics aggregator that helps transport operators create a better working environment for drivers and subcontractors.
Bridge integrates all your fleet’s valuable telematics into a single screen, creating powerful real-time awareness and oversight with digital response tools.
We know the challenges of being an HGV driver: traffic delays, weather hazards, crime zones, and information gaps during those crucial last moments of a collection or delivery.
Drivers value the power of data and technology. The lorries they operate have supplicated powertrain management systems, and active/passive safety features. No driver would ever want to venture out on a job without a lorry in excellent service conditions, with all its mechatronics, electrics, hydraulics and fluids working exactly to specification.
During National Lorry Week, it’s worth reflecting upon the value of data integration and digital fleet management. Operating the best lorries with committed drivers can be enhanced by integrating all those assets into a virtual fleet, consolidating all your vehicles’ valuable telematics data to a single screen.
Bridge empowers drivers by making vehicles more transparent and visible to fleet managers. Real-time alerts and single-screen oversight for fleet managers, mean drivers can focus on road conditions instead of worrying about routing or ETA issues.
Digital makes the difference
Bridge has several features that reduce risk and enhance operational safety for drivers. Geofence allows fleet managers to create virtual boundaries and alert zones where they’re needed.
Deploy the Bridge Geofence around a warehouse to know exactly when vehicles have entered or exited a collection or delivery zone. No more dropped phone calls or frantic callbacks to if a collection has been loaded, or delivery unloaded. Or if it’s pending.
With Bridge’s Geofences, you can shape alert zones exactly where they are needed around warehousing or distribution centres, and know exactly when vehicles are in the last few moments of their approach journey, to collect or deliver.
The Bridge Geofence feature is not just about virtual zones alerts for better ETA awareness. It’s about reducing driver risk and exposure to route delays. Developing high-risk crime areas or vulnerable flood or windage zones during a storm can also be proactively Geofenced, triggering alerts that help fleet managers keep their drivers and subcontractors safer. And avoid having them venture inadvertently deep into risk areas.
Dealing with dwell times
Extended loitering creates delays and increases scheduling pressure on drivers. With Bridge’s Geofence Dwell Alerts, fleet managers can customise area specific dwell time thresholds and be alerted when vehicles are idling away for too long. The Geofence Dwell Alerts feature helps drivers know that their fleet managers are alerted and aware of dwell time issues and can get ahead of the issue, before it become a severe delay problem.
The Bridge Replay feature can evaluate all journeys with an easy-to-use mapping interface, customised to specific time frames. That means better data collection and planning, improving future routes.
Replay is an excellent incentive for drivers to be route-compliant and avoid disputes with inarguable data. Incentivising better driver behaviour and keeping your fleet or subcontractors disciplined, is easier with Replay – which delivers the exact mapping journey data history you need, to reward and retain great drivers.
GoMetro’s Bridge fleet management and telematics integration platform. It’s the digital transformation you need to build a virtual fleet and realise the full potential of your lorry drivers.
