Coyote Logistics launches Dynamic Route Optimisation

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Coyote Logistics has announced the expansion of its Dynamic Route Optimisation programme that aims to streamline supply chain operations and reduce uncertainty for carriers by maximising the efficiency of their fleets and delivering load consistency through optimised weekly routing plans.

Dynamic Route Optimisation builds suggested weekly route plans to direct drivers to and from their domicile location by taking numerous parameters into account, including driver’s hours provided by the carrier, load attributes, average load and unload times, market cost, mile per hour bands by region, home base city, among others and layering them over Coyote’s open and available loads.

Nick Shroeger, Chief Network Solutions Officer at Coyote, said: “Dynamic Route Optimisation helps drive efficiency to carrier networks and delivers benefits to all members of the supply chain, offering drivers confirmed rates and loads, while providing more dependability to shippers.”

Carriers using the solution receive consistent weekly miles, even in times of volatility, in a range of 2,100 to 2,700. With weekly planning covered, carriers can instead focus on strategically building out their fleets with the assurance of confirmed weekly rates and truckloads. In the process, it also supports the reduction of carriers’ carbon footprints by mitigating empty miles. Coyote manages the process from start to finish to make the experience simple.

“Inconsistent load volume, rates and schedule gaps are significant sources of stress that are exacerbated by market volatility,” said Eric Lewis, VP of Operations at Ed Lewis Trucking. “Dynamic Route Optimisation has helped us remove uncertainty from our weekly operations by strategically stringing shipments together so we can keep our fleet full and moving, while providing our drivers the number of miles per week they were promised.”

Source: UPS