vHub, a collaborative trailer repositioning and sharing marketplace, announced that fleet telematics and trailer tracking systems can be integrated with the vHub platform to provide an exact GPS-based location of available units and actual mileage.
“It benefits fleet or trailer owners and renters, and their drivers, when our new integration capability with any telematics system provides exact trailer locations in the vHub platform,” said Francis Roy, vice president of vHub. “Having a high level of confidence about exactly where trailers are located allows owners to keep track of assets they are making available for repositioning and sharing. It also helps eliminate time spent searching yards for trailers and lets fleets and drivers enhance their ability to use available hours of service productively.”
Using telematics systems to identify trailers that are not in use can also help owners generate revenue from under-utilized equipment, the company says. That inherent capability presents new opportunities to list units on vHub where they are instantly available for rent by users.
The automated, accurate, and faster process of telematics integration in the vHub platform also leads to improved transparency for billing based on detention time and distance traveled. With the telematics system connection to vHub, the trailer repositioning and sharing marketplace uses actual per axle mileage without requiring driver interaction.
Designed to work with any industry trailer tracking system, the vHub integration only requires that trailer owners enter a unique ID when listing equipment in their vHub account. vHub then accesses the trailer’s GPS location via an API with the telematics system provider’s cloud-based solution. After a trailer is reserved in vHub’s web portal, its location information is available to the driver on a mobile app.
“Regardless of the telematics system they are using, trailer owners remain in complete control of the units they are making available in the vHub collaborative sharing platform,” said Roy. “This capability adds to the value of the owners’ investment in tracking solutions. It also builds our trailer sharing community that helps the North American trucking industry get the most productivity out of its fleet.”
A growing community with over 10,000 registered trailers, vHub cuts repositioning costs and turns unused trailers into revenue generating equipment by making them available to short term renters in a secure, trusted, digital platform. Launched in Canada one year ago, vHub is now available in the U.S. and continues to grow its Canadian transportation operations.
