Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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n P A R T N E R S O L U T I O N S / N A T I O N A L C A R R I E R E X C H A N G E Driving profits NCX offers free fleet management system S ince its launch, the National Carrier Exchange has continually added more features to its free platform. Today, NCX provides free tracking, electronic dispatch, scheduling, operations, reports and invoicing to carriers across North and South America. Now, they have included a line of fully telematic electronic logging devices to the mix — with no recurring monthly fee. What's more, they are giving up to 50,000 ELDs to the small fleets that need them most. Upcoming features to NCX include GPS-Certified IFTA Fuel Tax Reports, free remote engine diagnostics and a maintenance history log system for their ELD users via their Engine Insights platform. In this article, we revisit NCX to take a deeper look at their free platform and its many benefits. Darrell Benvenuto, co-founder and CEO of NCX, says the company was founded to help emerging trucking companies become more profitable despite daunting odds. Almost 85 percent of all new trucking companies wind up bankrupt within their first two years of operation, Benvenuto says. "We wanted to make a difference by putting a set of powerful, free tools in the hands of these new trucking companies and help them become more efficient. We wanted to level the playing field — to give them a chance to compete professionally with long-established companies by offering their dispatchers total location awareness of their fleet, dramatically reduced numbers of check calls, live tracking numbers, professional-looking invoices and much more," Benvenuto says. "We wanted to help small trucking companies survive – and even thrive – in an ever-more challenging environment." Working closely with its users, NCX has added free driver scheduling, income reports and driver profiles. Carriers using NCX say they have reduced their call volume by at least 50 percent in their first week of use. By putting that now-free phone time into sales calls, they have achieved better capacity utilization and revenue. Darrell Benvenuto answers your questions about NCX: Q One of the most time- consuming tasks of dispatch is driver check calls. How dœs NCX create scheduling and load efficiencies? A The electronic dispatch portion of NCX's platform is a great time- saving tool for fleet dispatchers when it comes to check calls. Because drivers directly receive all of the instructions for their loads – pickup numbers, purchase order numbers, appointment details, loading dock details, hours of operation, temperatures, even where barriers need to be set up in reefers – drivers don't