CSI Logistics equips Trailcon trailers with tracking solution

BURNABY, B.C. — WebTech Wireless has signed a distribution agreement with Trailcon Leasing, allowing customers to track the location of parked trailers as well as goods in transit.

“The demands of our customers are the demands of their own customers, and they continue to increase. To stay ahead, we constantly innovate, with proprietary software and outsourced solutions, to ensure our customers are as productive as possible and the trailers operate at capacity,” says Stuart Innes, IT manager at Trailcon Leasing.

According to ABI Research, there are about 5 million trailers in North America and only about 10 percent have been outfitted with tracking devices.

The in-vehicle GPS/GPRS device transmits all field data via GPS or GPRS networks to a web-enabled user interface, the Quadrant Portal. Every trailer location is provided on a web-enabled map accessible to the dispatcher. Further, a geo-fence feature raises an automatic alarm when a trailer that is not scheduled to move leaves its location, notifying the dispatcher to act.

Trailcon customer, CSI Logistics is currently using the WebTech Locator devices in 200 of its trailers.

“Previous to installing the WebTech Quadrant solution we had to process our trailers by hand. Today, we’ve moved to an automated dispatch system that we expect will increase our efficiencies by 10 percent,” says Craig Cottrell, President of CSI Logistics.

“To give you an idea of the efficiencies we’ve already gained, we recently had to bring a driver back to a yard as we had mistakenly assigned him the wrong trailer for delivery. We fixed that problem within five minutes of the driver leaving the yard. With our former system we would have to physically go into the yard to find the right trailer once we’d learned the wrong delivery had taken place,” Cottrell adds.