Webfleet sharpens trailer fleet efficiency at Alcaline Transport

The Kent-based company specialises in just-in-time delivery for the automotive and aviation sectors, including iconic luxury brands like Rolls Royce, Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin. Alcaline’s team of HGV drivers transport urgent parts and stock from all over Europe to the UK, with the most urgent stock flown in by helicopter.

“Time really is money when you’re manufacturing cars,” said Andrew Jerome, transport manager at Alcaline Transport. “It can cost eye-watering amounts to stop an automotive production line even for short periods of time and major delays in vehicle delivery, so it’s imperative that we deliver on time every time. Knowing exactly where all your trucks and trailers are at any given moment has a key role to play.

“We have 200 trailers scattered across Europe but with Webfleet, we can now pinpoint exactly where they are, making us far more agile and quick to respond to clients’ constantly changing and often last-minute demands.”

The Webfleet solution includes truck and trailer tracking, tachograph management, vehicle safety checks and camera integration – and will shortly be amalgamated with Alcaline’s routing and scheduling software.

Drivers use the Webfleet driver app to carry out walk round vehicle safety checks, with any alerts automatically appearing on the location map and sent straight to the workshop planning team to resolve.

The software has also been integrated with axel weighing functionality so the team can see if any trailers are overloaded, while EPBMS highlights any brake performance issues and keeps Alcaline compliant with last month’s new DVSA quarterly brake test requirement for trailers.