Rather than leaving drivers to calculate their own route between stops, as with some transport planning and management systems, which produce an optimised schedule for deliveries, Navevo’s Line of Route technology allows drivers to follow a route produced by their transport planning software, ensuring the actual driven route is an exact duplicate of the one created by the job planner. Even if the driver comes off the planned route at any time, the navigation software is able to recalculate a route that gets the driver back to the original planned route, ensuring that it is closely followed throughout the entire journey.
According to the company, this could save HGV fleet operators an average difference of eight miles per driver per day, cutting fuel costs by over £1,100 per year per vehicle.
Navevo adds that the system has been designed to work in a range of operational environments including event-based transport operations.
Line of Route technology is available on all of Navevo’s ProNav range of dedicated HGV navigations systems (that also offer dedicated large vehicle routing with height, weight, width etc.), as well as in a software only version for integration with other fleet technology solutions.
As part of the launch, Navevo has teamed up with 121 Systems to offer a complete end-to-end Line of Route solution. 121 Systems has developed an extension to its Roadnet Transportation Suite to allow fleet operators to upload routes directly from Roadnet into Navevo’s ProNav HGV navigation system. This helps job planners ensure that their optimised routes and delivery schedules are closely followed by drivers.
Navevo’s CEO, Nick Caesari, said: ‘In partnering with 121 Systems we believe our combined solution will help operators significantly reduce waste and environmental impact, as well as time spent on the road.’