TruckStops Case Studies
At MapMechanics we help our customers to collect and deliver milk and fresh produce, deliver bottled water, plan and coordinate doorstop visits and deliveries, allocate leads and make sure that the right people are in the right place at the right time, including getting prisoners to courts. We also provide strategic analysis, through either software packages or consultancy, optimise the placement of depots for access to transport and customers, investigate the demographics of an area for the suitability of a new franchise or examine your market penetration in an area to see if a new site is viable.
Here is a selection of case studies that show how we have helped our customers to achieve their goals. Contact us to find out how we can help your business.
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 Scotts Distribution, a relative newcomer to the UK’s milk distribution market. 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
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
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 traveled by its agents. 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
French newspaper group streamlines home deliveries
Sud Ouest, one of France's leading regional daily newspaper groups, has successfully increased the number of home deliveries of newspapers its agents can make, and made its deliveries much more efficient, by introducing StreetServicer, an advanced route optimisation system from MapMechanics 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
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
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
