The loading address is Waalhaven 12, not 8, and Kees is already on the road.
Linders Transport in Venlo is an example company. It has six lorries, two planners and an office waiting for the CMR.
Kees is already on the road. Nobody knows whether he knows.
The temperature is a WhatsApp message and the CMR is a photo.
Four and a half hours since 09:14. The planning board does not know, and neither does the customer.
The original travels back in the cab, and the invoice has to wait for the paper copy.
The planning board is in Excel or on the wall. The planner works out driving and rest times, waiting hours and any change from the customer in their head.
One planning board for trips, drivers and lorries, showing where everyone is and how much driving time each driver has left.
No signed original, no invoice. The trip comes from Excel, the surcharges from the day sheet, and everything goes into Twinfield by hand.
A CMR that the driver completes in the app, with photos, and that is attached to the invoice straight away.
The customer phones for an arrival time and the planner phones the driver. The temperature comes in on WhatsApp.
A customer who can see the arrival time and the temperature themselves, so nobody has to phone.
Costs are rising faster than rates. You only see what a customer brings in once waiting hours, tolls and empty runs are known for each trip.
The cost and margin per trip and per customer, from the on-board computer and the planning board.
We read positions and driving times from the on-board computers, and the invoice goes into your accounting with the signed CMR. If you use Transpas or MendriX, we start by looking at what already works well.
Then we build it so they get home sooner, with the CMR done in a few taps and no more day sheets. They do not have to fill in anything the tachograph already knows.
Then the gap is usually in between, in the hours, the CMR and the invoice. We build that part, on top of what is already there.
That is exactly the risk. We record what they know, so the company keeps running when they are off sick or on holiday.
Yes. In general haulage and international work, the CMR, driving and rest times, tolls and a return load for the way back all count. In distribution and groupage, it is about the order of the stops and what happens at each one. In refrigerated transport, the temperature log belongs with the trip, just like the CMR.
One fixed price, agreed after the design. It depends on where we start, whether that is the planning board, or the CMR in the app and the link to the on-board computers as well. We only start building once you agree.
We spend a morning with your planners and, if we can, ride with one of your drivers for part of a trip. Afterwards you get a short report on what we would build, and what comes first.
Fixed price, agreed once you approve the design. The code and data are in your name.
How those weeks go