Practical guides and evergreen insights on orders, drivers, trucks, documents and the daily organisation of road haulage. The Observatory also brings together industry analysis and updates.
Three tools, three different pieces of information: an initial proposal, an estimate for the run and driver hours. Here is how to combine them to read the Trip Plan better without taking control away from the dispatcher.
Read resourceA practical roadmap for digitalising a small road-haulage business without disrupting operations: processes, data, orders, planning, drivers, documents, security, GDPR and eFTI.
Read resourceWith around 10 trucks, users, changes, dependencies and data increase. Here is what needs to change compared with Excel: roles, a shared plan, history, drivers, KPIs and continuity.
Read resourceWhat a fleet of around 5 trucks really needs: orders, a daily plan, drivers, vehicles, communications, documents, data and what to avoid at the start.
Read resourceA practical method for choosing road transport management software: requirements, testing with real cases, costs, data export, GDPR, security, contract, migration and checklist.
Read resourceTransport management software or TMS? A practical comparison for SMEs of functions, complexity, implementation, integrations, costs and signs that it is time to move up a level.
Read resourceA practical guide to TMS: what it manages, which modules it may include, the difference from management software and telematics, organisational costs, data, integrations and eFTI.
Read resourceWhat management software should do for a small road transport business: orders, customers, drivers, trucks, planning, documents, statistics, and what must not be confused with compliance or telematics.
Read resourceMigrate from Excel to management software without stopping the fleet: data clean-up, master data, real-life testing, parallel run, privacy, backups, training and rollback.
Read resourceThe complete directory of evergreen guides from the TrucksOut Observatory.
