Thermo King partners Dot Transportation to implement technology solutions

Advanced technological solutions help ensure performance, reduce engine runtimes, and better manage maintenance costs. Thermo King partnered with Dot Transportation Inc., to implement advanced telematics solutions to help optimise DTI’s refrigerated fleet operations.

For product integrity through cold chain, companies are looking for ways to improve efficiencies and increase the freshness of products delivered to customers. With a focus on digitisation, the DTI team turned to Thermo King for their expertise in providing connected solutions that enable fleet optimisation and the safe, efficient transport of valuable food.

Thermo King’s TracKing® Pro telematics is a game-changer for the company. The technology converts data into information that provides actionable fleet insights into trailer units.

Dominic Hand, Vice President Digital, Thermo King Americas, said, “We value each customer’s mission, supporting them throughout the cold chain with quality products, service, data and analytics, and cost management solutions. We feel proud to lead the industry in enabling fleet optimisation that delivers freshness and leverages data and insights to respond quickly if needed. Customers like DTI fuel our passion to make an impact across the cold chain.”  

Solution

TracKing® Pro telematics is a premium digital offering that harnesses the power of cutting-edge algorithms to estimate fuel consumption, electricity usage and opportunities to enhance uptime. TracKing Pro telematics also includes a benchmark analytics dashboard that allows customers to compare fleet energy usage and operations against best-in-class fleets to discover what is possible to achieve.

Thermo King worked closely with DTI to implement and optimise TracKing Pro telematics by activating subscriptions and demonstrating how data insights can boost operational efficiency and prevent the potential for load loss incidents. DTI quickly saw the benefits of telematics when used to monitor their Thermo King Precedent® multi-temperature TRUs.

John Ourth, Director of Planning at Dot Transportation, Inc. said, “The value of a reliable connected solution and proactive monitoring that TracKing Pro telematics offers has yielded proven savings for our organization. It is a service that allows us to operate more efficiently, protects our valuable loads and ensures the food we haul arrives safely to the communities we serve.”