Driver&Load: Optimize Load Combinations

To make sure you have the best possible combination of drivers and loads, you need to see across your entire global network. You want to know which drivers are available and which can be redeployed to minimize empty miles and increase the productivity of your drivers and utilization of trucks.

Manhattan Associates' Driver&Load® helps you match specific drivers to the best possible load combinations by updating driver status and load information in real time. Optimizing your loads helps you use your primary assets to the greatest advantage, while increasing driver and customer satisfaction.

Driver&Load:

  • Optimizes your entire fleet
  • Improves on-time pickup and delivery to boost customer satisfaction
  • Decreases dwell time and deadhead miles
  • Reduces out-of-route miles
  • Improves utilization

Improve Performance by Combining with Other Solutions

As part of Manhattan's Carrier Management Solutions, Driver&Load integrates flawlessly with:

  • Drop&Swap®: Improve efficiency by evaluating all potential drivers and load combinations to determine optimal swaps. Receive alerts and monitor changing estimated time of arrivals to identify emerging problems and avert service failures.
  • Fuel&Route®: Determine optimal routing and fuel recommendations while balancing driver requests and preferences. Reduce out-of-route miles and costs for fuel, taxes and tolls.
  • Load Analyzer: Respond to load requests, solicit freight in markets with surplus capacity and create the optimal repositioning plan in anticipation of demand.
  • Profit Analyzer: Assess the long-term value of each shipper, each lane and each shipment in your freight network. Capture and optimize the key factors affecting profitability, including freight revenues, network balance, driver utilization, fixed equipment costs, overhead allocation, deadhead and dwell time.

Explore the Transportation Lifecycle Management process - click the diagram below for an interactive approach to understanding Manhattan's solution.

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Contact Information: To learn more about Manhattan Associates' supply chain solutions, simply complete the information request form, and we will contact you. For North & South America, call +1 877.596.9208 or e-mail info_americas@manh.com. For global inquiries, call +44 (0)1344 318000 or e-mail info_global@manh.com.