Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
Issue link: http://read.uberflip.com/i/699972
COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | JULY 2016 33 Using telematics data from its PeopleNet fl eet management platform, Estes has created a Performance and Safety (PAS) scoring system. Drivers receive a daily score and have used the information and coaching they receive to improve fuel effi ciency by 15 percent. The fl eet's average mpg is 7.1, up from 6 mpg three years ago. "That allows us to be competitive in the marketplace," Hupp said. To help prepare for what lies ahead in the future, Estes has an in-house incubator team of "whiz kids" that come up with new ideas. "Eighty percent of their ideas are crazy, but 20 percent are engaging and good," he said. The team is focused mostly on the e-commerce revolution, as well as technologies that could disrupt the supply chain such as 3D print- ing, which could reduce the need for transportation. "We've got to be aware of those things," Hupp said. "Developing our technology capability is going to be the difference- maker in the market." AARON HUFF is Senior Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal. E-mail ahu @ccjmagazine.com or call (801) 754-4296. MAKING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS WORK FOR YOUR FLEET BY AARON HUFF INTERESTED IN TRUCKING TECHNOLOGY? Scan the barcode or go to www.goo.gl/Ph9JK to subscribe to the CCJ Technology Weekly e-mail newsletter.