CCJ Innovators profiles carriers and fleets that have found innovative ways to overcome trucking’s challenges. If you know a carrier that has displayed innovation, contact CCJ Chief Editor Jason Cannon at [email protected] or 800-633-5953.
A robot remotely controlled by an employee who could not attend a GP Transco (CCJ Top 250, No. 163) meeting makes its way into the board room in Illinois to take a look and say hello.
It’s this kind of unique embrace of technology that strives to put people at the center that led GP Transco to emerge early on with their own Transportation Management System (TMS).
OpenRoad TMS first hit the road five years ago and has since yielded an impressive ROI of roughly 480% for the dry van carrier while improving driver retention and building trust among customers.
“Over the past five years, we have spent $2,300,000 on the development and maintenance of the system, and the system brought $11,200,000 to the company,” said Sergey Bort, GP Transco’s vice president of marketing and strategic business development.
“To put this into further context, we save roughly 1.7% per every dollar of revenue due to OpenRoad TMS, at the current level of development,” Bort continued.
Cody Von Stein, logistics coordinator and carrier compliance manager at Westside Transport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Westside Transport
