The company runs an all-temperature controlled courier fleet almost exclusively based on Mercedes vans and trucks for its customer base, which covers the UK and Europe, handling a variety of temperature-critical consignments.
PDQ’s business development manager, Luke Devlin explained: “Temperature is at the heart of everything we do at PDQ, all our deliveries are temperature-critical and the need for real-time perfect information is paramount. From day one of our business, we have specified Seven’s Transcan 2 temperature monitoring equipment and Cool Track remote tracking as standard equipment on every vehicle as we believe it is by far the best and most effective telematics system in the business.”
“Such is the variety and complexity of loads being carried that we require highly specialist vehicles. In the most recent batch of seven new vehicles, we have both dual and triple compartment bodies, as well as up to three independent temperature probes, in our quest to provide our customers with the highest level of information possible during transit. We ensure traceability throughout the delivery process and can log into any vehicle, at any time, all over Europe and this includes when they are on ferries too. The detailed analysis available via the Seven Telematics equipment will even monitor the length of time of every door opening during a delivery cycle,” added Devlin.
This Seven Telematics technology monitors the integrity of the supply chain, enabling PDQ’s customers, drivers and management to remotely track the GPS location and monitor the temperature of consignments on a minute-by-minute basis, throughout each and every journey. The data is securely stored offsite, with historical data made available for up to 12 months.
“This detailed approach to our business is critical to the success of the business, which is based on a growing fleet of dedicated high specification, added value trucks and vans. With an average vehicle age of just 1.2 years, our ‘almost brand new’ fleet runs on high mileage pan European operations with a vehicle life of three years maximum,” added Luke Devlin.