Track and Trace- when will the struggles ever end?

MadGaines Live! By Cassandra Gaines

Track-and-Trace Struggles - will it ever improve?

It’s 2021 and the industry still has shippers and brokers calling truck drivers for truckload locations. Customers want to know where their shipments are located--why is it so hard to automate this process? Other topics of discussion:

-best practices;
-best tech;
-what annoys drivers;
-how to make customers happy;
-why customers are so obsessed with it and do they go overboard?

• Guests:
  • Peter Coratola, President of Ease Logistics
  • Chris Jolly, “the Freight Coach” CJolly Freight Consulting
  • Vitaly Bekker, Senior Transportation Specialist at Aritzia
  • Adam Wingfield, Managing Director at Innovative Logistics Group LLC
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Kapitel

1. Why do shippers want tracking 24/7 (00:06:45)

2. broker v carrier visibility differences (00:08:49)

3. Why do carriers fight tracking? (00:15:00)

4. shippers want confirmed tracking (00:20:04)

5. set expectations up front (00:21:51)

6. track and trace is abused at times (00:25:17)

7. what is so wrong with calling the trucker? (00:28:26)

8. ELD data (00:38:21)

9. customers want verbal confirmation (00:42:50)