Huffman Trucking Case Study

Huffman Trucking GPS Tracking System
BSA/310
August 20th, 2011

Huffman Trucking GPS Tracking System
Background
Huffman Trucking has mobile assets that include 800 road tractors, over 2100 trailers, and 260 roll-on/roll-off units. Huffman employees 925 drives and 425 support staff across several states. The lifeblood and backbone of Huffman is the efficient and timely pickup/delivery of goods, and keeping their trucks rolling on the road fully loaded for the outbound/return leg of the trip.
GPS Tracking Information System
Huffman recognized several years ago the inefficiencies of manually tracking their vast fleet of trucks, not knowing the exact location of their fleet at any given time, and accurate time of pickup and delivery to the
Embedded mapping of vehicles on Huffman website so customers can track their orders online. * Enhanced map data by Google Enterprise Maps span most of the U.S. and the world with easy-to-use features and a familiar setup. * Truck tracking system includes cellular and pure satellite. * Location of equipment and trailers are at all times that allows for better planning equipment delivery from site-to-site. * Trailer Tracking enables dispatch to match trailer and equipment types, so to eliminate equipment and driver downtime. * GPS equipment tracking enables maintenance personnel to efficiently find and service at vital maintenance intervals (25,000 miles), reducing equipment wear, maintenance costs, and increasing profits.
Fleet Tracking