Technology
Forum Transport uses a state of the art Transport Management System. Our system designers have been designing Transport software for over 20 years and Forum is one of there longest standing and loyal clients. Forum spares no expense on technology, if there is a technological benefit to upgrade for either our clients or our staff, then we make it happen.
The system allows us to communicate directly to ALL of our drivers throughout Australia from just one location. Therefore eliminating our need to have allocation staff, operations and call centre etc in each individual state! This of course minimizes our over heads and enables us to continue to provide lower and more competitive rates to our clients.
The system enables us to have Online Bookings direct from this website as well as allows our clients to link your system to send jobs direct without the need to log on the computer or even pick up a telephone. To learn more about this call to speak to one of our Sales team today.
Other key features are:-
- Online POD'S in Real Time
- Vehicle Tracking via GPRS
- Live monitoring
- Remote Vehicle temperature control (for Chiller trucks)
- Print invoices direct for trucks
- Integrate our system with our clients systems
Pods
Real Time POD'S (Proof of Delivery) direct to our website!
90% of our fleet is using portable XDA'S with sign on glass capability! This means when your client signs for the goods their First Name and signature are electronically sent in real time to our server. The signatures are held on our server for a minimum of 3 years before being archived.
Whilst ever the signature is held on our server you can access it 24hrs a day 7 days a week online, by simply logging into our bookings area.
You will also notice that the exact Pick up and delivery times are stated for your convenience also. So there is no longer any need for you to have contact us and/or wait for a POD!
Tracking
Talcasoft Meridian integrates with our transport packages to provide accurate, real-time location tracking of vehicles and other assets. Each vehicle is fitted with a compact vehicle tracking module, which communicates with the Talcasoft Gateway using low-cost packet switched mobile telephone networks. Vehicle position updates can be recorded as often as 10 seconds, providing turn-by-turn and street-by-street detail of vehicle activities.
Vehicles are shown on a moving map in real-time. The maps cover all areas, including country towns and remote roads and tracks.
Vehicle tracking information can be displayed either on detailed state-wide or national maps, or printed in summary reports for quick analysis or record-keeping.
The reporting engine caches report details for instantaneous reports, which are used to explore the history of vehicles.
The journey panel shows the times during the day the vehicle was driven, stopped and parked. Each line shows a specific journey or stop. The times shown against each line are recorded from atomic clocks used in the global positioning system (GPS) satellites. The distance traveled and the starting and finishing streets and suburbs are also shown. The various parts of the screen can also be customized to suit the way you operate; Extra columns can be added to the journey list. For example if you require map references for insurance reports you can add them to the journey list. The list can also be sorted on any column, or filtered to only show some details.
Clicking on one or more rows in the report view displays the track over the ground of the vehicle. You can jump to any time to show the position of the vehicle using a scroll-bar.
The tracking hardware used by Meridian records positions every ten seconds, showing every turn and stop. The tracking hardware carefully packs the data to give highly detail information at low cost; also, if your operations require more detail, positions can be recorded even more frequently.
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