Smartphone app provider launches cloud-based platform for truckers

Trucker Tools, a freight matching and visibility provider, has launched a cloud-based platform called Smart Capacity for use in conjunction with its smartphone app.    Trucker Tools, maker of a driver smartphone app and automated load matching solution Load Track, has launched a cloud-based platform called Smart Capacity.
   The platform combines instant carrier-driver connectivity and analytics to “continuously aggregate capacity and predict when and where it will become available for third-party brokerage and logistics providers (3PLs),” the company said in a statement.
   The platform connects to Trucker Tools smartphone app and the company states it “went to great lengths to ensure data privacy and protection for all parties” were ensured within the app.
   “Smart Capacity gives 3PLs and carriers a more efficient and accurate freight matching process than anything they have previously experienced,” said Prasad Gollapalli, founder and chief executive officer of Trucker Tools. “By using the platform, 3PLs and carriers can secure capacity and loads as soon as they become available, days in advance of their competitors, to aggressively grow market share.”
   Smart Capacity utilizes online dashboards and integrated workflow to provide driver-load recommendations to users and enables 3PLs to grow revenue by identifying additional capacity they can offer to customers.
   “Smart Capacity is going to give us visibility to more capacity and help make our internal carrier salespeople more efficient by talking to trucks they know are in a particular region,” said Geoff Turner, president and chief executive officer of Choptank Transport, which utilizes Smart Capacity. “Besides making our process more efficient, the technology will help carriers reduce deadhead miles and give us visibility to trucks that we may not have had visibility to before.”