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Avishai Geller, Founder & CEOMaven Machines’ plug-n-play mobile solution leverages real-time data to streamline communications and automate workf low between drivers, dispatchers, managers, shippers and receivers. The real-time and dynamic solution enables carriers to manage large numbers of drivers with route planning and optimization, real-time data for dispatching, and insightful reporting for the entire f leet operations. Maven ELD not only performs electronic logging for trucking operations but also helps them to swiftly adapt to the regulatory changes without additional investments or compliance and safety managers. “The system automates the business, enabling workers to focus on their core business of trucking,” explains Geller. The feature that clients like the best is the solution’s ability to integrate with any backend system. The three key benefits of Maven Machines’ solution include a low cost of ownership, a user-friendly mix of the latest technologies, and a fast low-effort installation process. Designed with driver productivity in mind, Maven Machines’ app can be used—with no/ minimal training where success is expected on day one —as a replacement for siloed transactional systems.
Overcoming the operational challenge of underutilized capacity, assets, and technology, Maven Machines aims to help businesses get the most out of their resources and improve their operational efficiencies. “It’s all about data and information visibility and actionability, so that when the real world inf luences planned business operations, clients can adapt instantaneously and automatically, ensuring that they are operating at optimal efficiency,” says Craig Campbell, VP of Marketing, Maven Machines. “To that end, we bring a platform that produces the right data at the right time for the right task. The result is business operating more efficiently with greater visibility.”
A unique capability of Maven Machines’ IoT-powered solution is that it allows drivers to perform real-time image capture of shipping documents, freight integrity, and vehicle inspections.
Its geo-fencing capabilities enable companies and their truckers to track the shipment, monitor real-time ETAs, and log detention time for accessorial charges. In addition to its technological prowess, the software solution from the company boasts of a low cost of ownership by eliminating the need of expensive hardware installations, and provides updates and added functionalities without disrupting the client’s entire business. Adding to that, Maven Machines’ solution is highly user intuitive, and engages and empowers carriers to focus on improving organizational efficiencies.
Serving the entire spectrum of trucking, the company’s fleet management solution enables shippers and carriers to increase on-time performance, optimize miles per shipment, and increase driver satisfaction and retention. For example, Maven’s real-time mobile document scanning enables companies to process billing significantly faster, and automate route optimization. The company’s solution possesses detailed reporting capabilities such as business, route, and driver performance that allow clients to optimize their internal operations. Maven Machines’ clients also leverage information such as lift gate usage and excessive detention time to impose assessorial charges on their customers, adding significant revenue to their business. In addition, the solution’s real-time capabilities provide unparalleled visibility into accurate shipment status and ETAs.
Maven’s platform produces the right data at the right time for the right task
Many US-based fleets, including Central Freight Lines, have adopted Maven’s low profile, wireless, coin-sized ELD technology to run electronic logs across their entire fleet. Maven ELD’s simple self-installation process greatly speeds deployment of this small but powerful solution. Additionally, a majority Central Freight Lines’ California-based drivers use Maven’s software platform to take their required breaks in compliance with California Labor Law with the help of accelerometers, GPS, and other mobile sensors.
Being an advanced technology company at its core, Maven Machines is currently investing in blockchain and autonomous technologies to fuel the future needs of fleet management. “We are currently looking at partnerships with various technology companies working on autonomous vehicles with our aim to be a management platform for those fleets,” adds Geller. The company’s platform can serve multiple businesses, and currently, is being used by various smart manufacturing and logistics industries for taking in data from machines and other processes to optimize their existing operations.
Company
Maven Machines
Management
Avishai Geller, Founder & CEO and Craig Campbell, VP of Marketing
Description
Unlocks opportunity and value for a wide range of transportation use cases through the fusion of IoT sensors and devices, machine learning, and cloud computing
PITTSBURGH - Maven, announced that PITT OHIO is deploying Maven's unified P&D dispatching, driver workflow, line haul, and ELD/telematics platform across PITT OHIO's LTL fleet of over 1,700 trucks and 25 service centers.
After an extensive review, PITT OHIO determined that Maven provides a significantly better dispatching experience with grid and map interfaces and productivity-enhancing tools, allowing dispatchers to quickly rearrange stops and message drivers. PITT OHIO also expects to improve the driver to dispatcher ratio, use less fuel, and utilize Maven's performance data for driver and employee coaching.
Drivers and customers will benefit from Maven's accurate location data and geofencing, and PITT OHIO anticipates gaining a better understanding of costing data, stop times, and route deviations. The easy-to-use app with HOS tracking, document imaging, and P&D features like automatic lunch breaks will improve driver safety and compliance, simplifying the driver experience so that drivers can spend less time on their devices.
Chuck Hammel III, President of PITT OHIO, says, "Our standards are extremely high, and Maven provides best-in-class technology for LTL, allowing us to run a safer, more profitable fleet. Maven is helping us improve the customer experience with reduced claims and a happy, safe fleet of drivers, and the benefits will multiply from here."
PITT OHIO, a leading North American LTL freight carrier in North America, provides 97% plus on-time service. Maven's next-generation platform combines extensive input from PITT OHIO's dispatchers and drivers with efficiency-boosting AI/ML technology, benefiting PITT OHIO and other carriers across the industry.
Says Brad Caven, Vice President of Operations at PITT OHIO, "Maven's modernized LTL platform is providing PITT OHIO's employees with instant access to crucial information, enabling quicker and better decision-making. Drivers and dispatchers are thrilled with Maven's easy-to-use and dependable solutions, and deployment and adoption have been quick. The next group of users are very excited to go live."
Scott Sullivan, CIO/CFO of PITT OHIO, adds, "Maven understands LTL. Maven's data-rich platform is helping us provide more accurate shipment updates and ETAs for an exceptional P&D experience for drivers and customers. Other anticipated benefits from Maven include improvements in communication, HOS management, asset utilization and tracking, and intuitive dispatching for more optimal routes and pickups per day."
US Special Delivery and US Cargo, PITT OHIO affiliated companies, have been deployed on Maven since 2019. Maven serves multiple PITT OHIO partners and other carriers, and the PITT OHIO deployment will be completed in 2023.
"We're proud to provide PITT OHIO with a premier P&D software platform to improve compliance, safety, and operations," says Avi Geller, CEO of Maven. "We're seeing strong interest from other top LTL fleets who are ready to offer their employees a modern P&D and line haul experience to automate repetitive work for smarter, faster exception management and enhance dispatching, routing, and the driver experience."