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Non-Compliant Routes Slashed by 30% with EROAD Cold Chain Solution

The EROAD cold chain solution enabled a national retail brand to achieve significant, sustained gains in food safety compliance and fuel efficiency across a company-managed cold chain distribution network.

A refrigerated semi truck on a highway through frosted trees
  • 10,000+ Stores delivered daily
  • 3,800+ Routes tracked weekly
  • 1,000+ Vehicles
  • 38 Distribution centers
  • 7 Service providers

The EROAD solution

CoreTemp continuously monitors actual product temperatures. Route scoring data empowers fleet managers to identify and address operational shortfalls to improve efficiency.

Core results

  • Non-compliant routes reduced by 30% sustained for more than six years.
  • Year-to-year summertime performance gains due to better delivery SOPs revealed via route scoring.
Chart: six years of sustained cold chain compliance. The network rate of compliance rose from about 71% to above the shippers' 95% goal in the first year and has held there, apart from a dip each summer.

EROAD route scoring unlocks additional gains

Investigation into low-scoring routes often reveals operational issues: bulkheads left open, failing door seals, doors being left open too long. Carriers report that fixing these issues has improved energy efficiency and reduced fuel costs.

Operational practices that lead to extra fuel burn often cause low scores in CoreTemp. Most carriers in the network have reported using route-based scoring data to achieve a significant increase in efficiencies across their reefer fleets.

Travis RossEROAD senior solutions engineer

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