These enhancements are documented in full detail in our monthly release notes, and across the first quarter of 2024 our efforts have focused on delivering improvements in a few key areas:

Ensuring your drivers comply with existing driving time restrictions is crucial for maintaining a safe and efficient fleet. Our Drivers Hours page offers a comprehensive grid view, and now includes improved filtering features like pagination, allowing you to sort and filter your drivers’ activities over the last day to quickly review your drivers’ status and access the information you need to make informed decisions. Additionally, the enhanced Remaining Driving Time panel on the map screen displays tacho data from your fleet’s daily activities has been updated with clearer labelling.

With this data at your fingertips, you can easily assess your drivers’ workweeks and identify those with sufficient duty time remaining to take on additional journeys without risking non-compliance. This level of visibility empowers you to stay flexible and responsive in the face of changing business conditions, while maximising your fleet’s productivity and adhering to working time directive regulations.

Read more: Managing Driver Hours With Remaining Driving Time

It goes without saying that safety is a primary concern for all road transport operators, and our latest update combines the video feeds from your on-board vehicle cameras with a geographical map to provide additional context about the road conditions at the time of an incident, alongside an overview of the vehicle’s key data such as speed, brake, and accelerator positions.

Integrating all of this data into one easy-to-understand view makes it easy to quick assess your drivers response to an incident, attribute liability quickly, and decide how best to coach the driver involved towards safer practices to avoid limit the risk of a similar incident occurring in future.

Keeping track of your unpowered trailers and safeguarding high value assets during transit are essential for all operators interested in boosting their efficiency and maintaining a high standard of customer satisfaction.

Our newly introduced Proximity Beacons provide a simple, low-cost solution to these challenges, using an interconnected mesh network of bluetooth hardware to help you maintain visibility of your high-value assets and trailers to help prevent theft and to improve asset utilisation across your business.

Additionally, we have launched two new in-cab mobile hardware options: the ruggedized Zebra ET-45 – a perfect fit for all your ePOD needs, and the Microlise Drivetab 5, the optimal solution for displaying blindspot camera feeds and app notifications like in-cab hazard alerts for your drivers. Both devices are covered under our comprehensive warranty, and come supported by a full range of peripherals.

Efficient route planning is an important part of making sure your journeys are optimised to deliver the best experience for your consumers, while allowing your drivers to stay safe, limit fuel expenditure, and maintain optimal turnaround times on deliveries.

Our latest enhancement displays height, width, and weight restrictions on the map view, allowing you to plan route overrides while accounting for potential obstacles such as high-traffic areas or long-term roadworks. This feature empowers you to provide your drivers with safe and efficient routes and minimise delays.

We have also introduced more granular control for manual planning adjustments on the map and timeline screens in our Planning & Optimisation tool, which now supports multi-compartment vehicles when considering vehicle capacity –  including support for multi-temperature control across these compartments, which will help to streamline the inventory management process when creating plans.

By simply altering the master data files before optimising a plan, the compatibility of products with the different temperature-controlled compartments on a vehicle can be imported and manipulated in bulk, making the planning process and any required manual adjustments for exception handling much more efficient overall.

Learn more: Is effective Route Planning & Optimisation the best way to reduce operational costs?

Managers can now more effectively search and sort their driver information in the refreshed Driver Performance Management application, making it quicker and easier to review the drivers that they are interested in, ultimately improving the process of identifying both which drivers need more support and what areas they need guidance in to empower safer, more fuel efficient behaviours when on the road.

Moreover, we have introduced a new onboarding process for first-time users, providing a guided walkthrough of the app’s features. This initiative aims to increase driver engagement and understanding of the valuable feedback the app offers, ultimately promoting safer and more efficient driving practices.

Want to learn how to get the most out of these latest enhancements, or just find out more? View the release notes in full on our Knowledge portal here, or contact us to speak to the experts in our Customer Success Team.