Our difference

WHY CHOOSE US

We bring together several disciplines

ANALYTICS

Our 'cause & effect' analysis e.g. for poor truck turnaround helps to inform action steps. 

SMART SENSORS

Real-time 'states' insights e.g. "truck empty" can improve service, and truck-filling. 

MODELLING

This is at the heart of what we do.  We have predictive economic matching models ready to deploy.

DATA-DRIVEN MATCHING

Our plan has always been to build an integrated app.  This is on pause, for reasons that you can read about next.

THE PROBLEM

Unreliability

Early in our development we developed a diagnostic technique to measure supply chains and ran a couple of projects, but from the very start, our plan had been to build an interoperability platform, where Shippers and Carriers can share and match Jobs and Trucks.

The appeal for this solution is easy to see, and explains why we started.

The hard fact, we recently realised (Jan 25) is the industry is not ready for increased interoperation, because it lacks a commitment to precision, and for interoperation to be successful, all the enterprises and the individuals working within them need to have a shared commitment to being reliable.

Catalysing this change will not be easy because in numerous complex ways, the status quo rewards, or at least does not penalise, unreliability.

At this moment, we are unsure if / when the industry-wide evolutionary change to greater cooperation will happen.

Shown below is the hidden cost to the haulage industry of unreliability.

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too many trucks are on the road

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is the annual cost of this wasted capacity

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this equates in miles

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tonnes of carbon

THE OPPORTUNITY

Reliability

As a consequence of our experience we have reset our sights from facilitating cooperative load matching and pivoted back to our early focus of helping enterprises foster a reliability [max productivity] culture. For this we are focussed on Productivity Analysis and Productivity Prediction. [The latter uses components of our freight matching solution.]

The opportunity is for freighting companies or networks to grow their own productivity by introducing a culture of reliability.

Both of our tools have had some field-trials, and we are now inviting  enterprises to use them, as they develop their own business applications, with Tetro supplying the analytics.

This low-cost partnering, we believe, represents a real opportunity for both companies to experiment with the development of AI in the logistics space, whilst also solving real life issues of productivity and profitability.

Quality does not cost more, it costs less, but, of course there will always be black-swan events, which no amount of training in reliability will prepare for. Nonetheless the principle remains; where there is a high degree of reliability there is lower cost.  

This lower cost is durable: In that market prices may move, but reliable enterprises are always in a position to be competitive, because they can better use their assets whatever the trading conditions, be that more contracting, advertise more, etc.

PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS

Click HERE to be taken to a more detailed explanation.

PRODUCTIVITY PREDICTION

Click HERE to be taken to a more detailed explanation.

Shown below is the hidden opportunity for hauliers. Probably the Shipper opportunity is probably £3-5 billion or £20m a day.

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Daily running cost of a single truck

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of trucks drive empty most of the time

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of 66,000 haulers in the UK have fewer than 15 trucks

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of annual revenue loss per truck due to driving empty

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