TruckStops Press room
About the TruckStops Press room
This press room provides news about the products and our customers. TruckStops is a complete range of routing and scheduling software and associated products supplied by MapMechanics. Established for over 20 years the company specialises in logistics and using map-based technologies to help businesses derive real business benefits. MapMechanics own the TruckStops and OptiSite products and are distributors for major mapping agencies such as Ordnance Survey and the AA.
Press contact: Katy.McKenna@MapMechanics.com, telephone 020 8568 7000. More about us
MapMechanics’ enhanced road and street mapping adds precision to analysis
Significant enhancements have been made to three different street-level map data sets offered at www.allmapdata.com, the online digital data store from MapMechanics. These road and street-level maps are widely used in geographic information systems and logistics solutions for processes such as route-planning, drive time analysis and navigation. Read More
MapMechanics helps Australian producer achieve major logistics savings
Goodman Fielder, Australasia’s leading listed food company, has made far-reaching improvements to the way it distributes bakery products throughout Australia by introducing a package of planning, mapping, routing, scheduling and optimisation resources from a UK company, MapMechanics. Goodman Fielder’s national supply chain business analyst, Paul March, describes it as “a quantum leap” in helping to control cost. Read More
Red routes and car park data now available from MapMechanics
Where can you park in the UK… and where must you not park, or in many cases even stop? These two fundamental requirements often arise in routing, scheduling and navigational applications, and both are tackled with invaluable new data sets from UK-based mapping and logistics specialist MapMechanics. They are now available through www.allmapdata.com, the company’s fully transactional web site. Read More
Vertical street information in postcode data for Northern Ireland from MapMechanics
Organisations using postcodes for delivery planning, mobile workforce scheduling, leaflet drops and similar activities in Northern Ireland can now make use of a very precise geographically-based data set from MapMechanics, one of the UK’s leaders in digital mapping and related data. Read More
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water cuts sludge transport costs with VSc/MapMechanics solution
A wide-ranging transport resource management project mounted jointly by VSc Solutions and MapMechanics for Dwr Cymru Welsh Water is producing major savings and efficiency gains in the planning and scheduling of sludge movements between processing plants across Wales. Read More
Neighbouring Postcode Sector lookup table streamlines ‘first-cut’ delivery planning
Transport and logistics organisations doing resource planning or analysis at postcode sector level can now run queries to find adjacent postcode sectors without needing specialised mapping software or data. Instead, they can use a new data set called Neighbouring Postcode Sectors from MapMechanics, the UK-based specialist in logistics planning and optimisation systems, and in digital mapping and related data. Read More
Which vehicle routing and scheduling system should you choose?
With judicious use of an appropriate vehicle routing and scheduling system (VRS), transport operators can typically make costs savings of 10 to 30 per cent, and can cut planning time by 40 to 50 per cent. But how do you decide which system to use? Read More
NAVTEQ map data helps Celtrak monitor speeds and build bespoke speed zones
NAVTEQ digital mapping and road speed limit data supplied by UK-based mapping and logistics software specialist MapMechanics have become key components in the fast-growing range of driver performance and safety products offered by Celtrak, an international telematics and GPS vehicle tracking company based in Ireland. Read More
TruckStops scheduling supports fast growth for free milk delivery specialist
Using the TruckStops vehicle routing and scheduling optimisation system from MapMechanics, a leader in logistics and network planning solutions, has proved a key factor in supporting extremely fast growth at a leading milk delivery specialist, that is a relative newcomer to the UK’s milk distribution market. Read More
ITIS speed data renamed and enhanced following INRIX acquisition
The popular ITIS road speed data used in drivetime and vehicle routing and scheduling software, is now known informally as INRIX data. The change follows the acquisition of ITIS Holdings plc by INRIX Inc. MapMechanics markets the data under the brand name GB Speeds. Read More
Powerful mapping, geographical analysis and routing optimisation
The future of digital mapping, geographic analysis and logistics planning and optimisation is one of interactivity and out-of-the-box accessibility, combined with increasing power, sophistication, sheer range of potential applications and ability to present data in a vivid, easily-understood graphical form. Read More
MapMechanics’ wide-ranging transport resource set helps cope with the games
Although most organisations likely to be affected by travel and transport restrictions during this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games now know about the challenge they face, many have still not determined how best to cope with it. Read More
Nightfreight narrows home delivery time windows with TruckStops scheduling
Nightfreight, the national express delivery and supply-chain specialist, has enhanced the service offering of its Deliver2Home two-man home delivery service significantly by introducing the TruckStops routing and scheduling optimisation system from MapMechanics. Read More
Dukes Bailiffs transforms efficiency with MapMechanics' planning solution
Software from MapMechanics has enabled the Dukes Bailiffs to take on 30 to 40 per cent more work. The system has also enabled Dukes to reduce journey planning time radically, and has virtually removed the problem of neglected “out of area” calls. In addition, it has cut down the company’s fuel bills significantly. Read More
Latest TruckStops routing and scheduling system ‘works the way you do’
Version 12 of TruckStops vehicle routing and scheduling solution introduces a variety of new features to enable users to modify details of its behaviour. TruckStops version 12 can conform more closely to existing business practices, or can reflect the user's knowledge and experience of on-the-ground operating conditions. Read More
TruckStops underlies efficiency drive by UK carpet firm
The TruckStops vehicle routing and scheduling optimisation system from MapMechanics is one of the key resources underpinning a major logistics efficiency improvement drive by Cormar Carpets and its logistics contractor Wincanton. Read More
More precise planning with enhanced Territory Manager 2.0
Organisations planning or modelling geographical territories and allocating resources to them can handle the task with much greater precision, flexibility and control with the new version 2.0 of Territory Manager from MapMechanics, the specialist in map-based analysis. Read More
Bailiff planning solution cuts mileage by 50%
Collect Services, one of Britain's leading firms of enforcement agents (generally known as bailiffs), has rolled out the latest version of Collections, the specialised planning and scheduling system developed by MapMechanics under the company's guidance, and says it is saving up to 50 per cent of the mileage travelled by its agents. Read More
GeoXploit Logistics ready-to-go map-based analytical power
MapMechanics has launched a new product, GeoXploit Logistics – a powerful and fully-featured yet easy-to-use geographical analysis package tailored specifically for the needs of the logistics market. Read More
TruckStops 11 puts more power in the hands of fleet operators
TruckStops, the popular and powerful routing optimisation solution from MapMechanics for scheduling vehicles and people, now offers more flexibility for users to reflect the subtleties of their own fleet operations. The new features are introduced in TruckStops version 11, which is now available from MapMechanics. Read More
TruckStops triumphs, even for company with no trucks
You can benefit from using the TruckStops vehicle routing and scheduling optimisation system from MapMechanics even if your company runs no vehicles of its own at all. That's the verdict of Cheshire-based PDQ Transport, which specialises in delivering plants to garden centres nationwide. Read More
MapMechanics Acquires TruckStops and OptiSite
MapMechanics is pleased to announce its acquisition of TruckStops and OptiSite from MicroAnalytics, Inc., US-based developer of the systems, which MapMechanics has distributed in the United Kingdom for nearly 20 years. MapMechanics has acquired all rights to the products, and has been assigned all existing user licenses worldwide. Read More
MapMechanics' GeoConcept drives routing engine for PARIS container transport planning system
The GeoConcept geographic information system from MapMechanics has been used by Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd, the developer of the widely-used PARIS container transport planning system, to streamline the product's ability to calculate journey times and distances in real time.Read More
TruckStops VRS helps cut Fenland fleet
Workwear rental and cleaning specialist Micronclean from Fenland Laundries Ltd, has achieved major efficiency gains in its collection and delivery system by harnessing the resources of MapMechanics' TruckStops VRS routing and scheduling optimisation system - reducing fleet strength by. Read More
TruckStops VRS version 10 offers new functionality at reduced prices
MapMechanics' TruckStops VRS, one of the UK's leading vehicle routing and scheduling systems, is now more intuitive in the way it displays routes on screen maps, more convenient to use for multi-solution modelling, more precise in the way it finds call points and more attractively priced. A more. Read More
MapMechanics helps MVA refine greener, more cost-effective modelling
"Real-world road speeds without the need for expensive data collection" – that is how MVA Consultancy sums up one of the key potential economic benefits of the NAVTEQ mapping and travel data sets it has licensed through MapMechanics. Read More
TruckStops Focus to Shift to UK Market
MapMechanics is pleased to announce a major shift in focus and emphasis for the TruckStops UK vehicle routing and scheduling system. After the acquisition of the North American division of the TruckStops product line by another US firm, MicroAnalytics (its originator) will be focusing on the United Kingdom as a primary market for the TruckStops product. Read More
Solaglas on course for significant savings with MapMechanics' mobility solution
Solaglas, one of Britain's largest processors, distributors and installers of glass and glass systems, make significant savings with a vehicle loading, routing, scheduling and mobility management solution from MapMechanics. Read More
Map data from MapMechanics underpins CCS's mission-critical software
Digital mapping and address data supplied and configured by MapMechanics forms key component in transport planning software developed by Cleric Computer Services (CCS) for ambulance services, health authorities, local government and private-sector organisations. Read More
Routing and scheduling from MapMechanics helps HIPPOBAG service get greener
The HIPPOBAG™ waste collection and recycling service has become even 'greener', and more cost-effective, with TruckStops from MapMechanics.Read More
MapMechanics helps plan third-party distribution expansion for UniChem
Routing and scheduling with TruckStops, the specialist application from MapMechanics, has played "a fundamental role" in a major expansion programme undertaken this spring by UniChem, the pharmaceuticals and healthcare distributor and wholesaler in the Alliance Boots group. Read More
Collections uses MapMechanics tools to set standard for agent travel planning
"Collections" is the brand name now being used by Collect Services, one of Britain's leading firms of enforcement agents, for a software package it has built up in association with MapMechanics for planning the movements of its agents round the country from day to day. Read More
Spicers gains more from TruckStops
Since introducing the TruckStops routing and scheduling system from MapMechanics over twelve years ago, office products wholesaler Spicers has saved "in excess of one million pounds" in its transport and logistics activities. So says Richard Slade, logistics manager in the company's logistics management team Read More
Thomson Directories streamlines distribution with help from MapMechanics
In support of a programme to streamline the door-to-door distribution of its famous, blue directories, Thomson Directories has invested in the GeoConcept mapping and geographical information system from MapMechanics, along with some specialised routines developed by MapMechanics for this application. Read More
Wincanton switches to 'milk industry standard' routing and scheduling
Since introducing TruckStops from MapMechanics, which it considers the "industry standard" routing and scheduling system for bulk milk collection and delivery, Wincanton Logistics' industrial division says it has achieved significant improvements in operational efficiency, as well as gaining insights that help the company in planning for new business. Read More
TNT Express streamlines network planning with MapMechanics' OptiSite
Planning and fine-tuning the parcel delivery network operated by TNT Express in the UK has been made quicker and easier with the use of OptiSite, the network optimisation system from MapMechanics. Read More
TruckStops halves scheduling time for timber supplier and adds flexibility
Decorative timber supplier Richard Burbidge Ltd has halved the time it previously took to plan delivery routes from day to day, whilst at the same time gaining unprecedented power to ensure that priority loads are allocated automatically to its own in-house transport fleet using TruckStops vehicle routing and scheduling. Read More
Routing and scheduling exercise clinches milk contract
A one-off routing and scheduling exercise, performed on a project basis by TruckStops supplier MapMechanics, has proved a vital component in helping haulier G Easton & Son to secure a revised and enhanced bulk milk collection and delivery contract in eastern England. Read More
Scheduling more efficiently in a fraction of the time
Milk processor and haulier Robert Wiseman Dairies has significantly increased the number of milk collections it makes, and the company has paid tribute to the essential role played in the planning process by the TruckStops routing and scheduling system,which was supplied by MapMechanics. Read More
