Always setting the pace of technology development for the management of road freight transport businesses, Freight2020 became one of the first transport management systems in the world to offer real-time driver interactivity with live freight bookings via a free mobile app with the release of Freight2020 Driver Mobility for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch in 2014.

Since then, Freight2020 Driver Mobility has been adopted by a large number of Australian trucking companies, starting with one of Victoria’s freight leaders, Asixa, the company which produced a corporate video on its instrumental role in the development and road-testing of the app, and the benefits of being able to do away with paper consignment notes and slow notification systems.

Free download from Google Play

CMS Transport Systems, the long-established Australian technology company behind the Freight2020 transport management system, recently released an Android version of Freight2020 Driver Mobility and this new app is now available as a free download from the Google Play store.

The features of Freight2020 Driver Mobility for Android are just as powerful and user-friendly as Freight2020 Driver Mobility for iOS app including driver shift logging and vehicle safety and condition checks, driver booking allocations, live interaction with pick-ups and deliveries, sign-on-glass proof of delivery, customised instant automatic email notifications and updating of online track-and-trace information, full integration with the Freight2020 transport management system, and much more.

You don’t need to be a current Freight2020 user to explore the power of Freight2020 Driver Mobility for free, as CMS offers an unlimited demo with trial data download and instructions for evaluation purposes. Simply complete a Freight2020 Driver Mobility test-drive request for instructions on how to download and unlock the trial data, or book a free personalised demonstration.

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A standard feature of Freight2020 since the official announcement of its release in December 2013, Item-Level Tracking is being used successfully by a growing number of transport businesses with diverse operational requirements.

Rob Mullins, managing director of CMS Transport Systems, explained how customer needs were met by the development of Item-Level Tracking.

Item-Level Tracking functionality explained

“While some companies and their customers need only to track whole consignments, this consignment-based approach does not provide sufficient detail or control in every freight situation. For example, what happens when a load is picked up as one consignment but then split into separate pallets, cartons, or individual items for delivery to customers in different locations, or consolidation into warehouse inventory? Developing the seamless management of these complexities within Freight2020 was a fine achievement for the CMS technical team, and a real breakthrough for many organisations using Freight2020 right around Australia,” Rob said.

Sample of Freight2020 custom-branded Item-Level Tracking barcode label

Custom-branded barcode labels printed in batches or on-demand

Freight2020 Item-Level Tracking can begin with the printing of a custom-branded barcode label to be applied to each trackable item or trackable unit of freight within each consignment. From this point, a separate record is created in the Freight2020 system for each barcoded item. Each of these barcoded items will remain electronically trackable even when no longer physically associated with the rest of its original consignment.

Online track-and-trace of individual pallets, cartons, or items within consignments

Scanning devices are used to track the movement of the barcoded items or freight units in transit, through to receipted customer delivery with sign-on-glass via the Freight2020 mobile app or an integrated ruggedised mobile device, or delivery into the warehouse or cold storage where scanning will add the item, carton of items, or pallet-load of items to the customer’s 3PL storage inventory.

At every scanned waypoint or event in the journey, the Freight2020 system is automatically updated so that freight customers can monitor the progress of their consignments, and individually-barcoded items within consignments, in real-time via the Freight2020 Online Customer Portal.

For completely hands-free customer service updates, Freight2020 has a system-wide Auto-Email Notifications feature which authorised users can set to automatically notify freight customers via email whenever there is a significant freight-tracking event, from initial pick-up and transit through legs of the journey to the automatic sending of final proof-of-delivery to the customer, or receipt into storage. When the all-important invoice goes out to the customer, all of the charges pertaining to freight movements and changes to stored inventory are pre-validated.

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