Transportation: How We Can Help
As the owner of a trucking or transportation company, you need to assure your business’ future through management tools that work. IDS can help you fix your company by implementing or enhancing the following: sales and marketing techniques, administration procedures, merchandise control, space utilization, equipment repair and maintenance.
Sales/Marketing
- Full knowledge of company capabilities
- Customer identification
- Targeted marketing
- Using directories to pre-qualify
- Focused advertising
- Advertising effectiveness feedback
- Sales planning and sales activity monitoring
- Public relations and customer awareness
- Customer follow-up
Administration/Management
- Management authority and responsibility clearly defined
- Organizational relationships that facilitate efficient operation
- Well-defined operating procedures
- Profit-based decision making
- Profit-based manager’s compensation program
- DOT requirements
Merchandise Control
- Computerized scheduling of trailer loading
- Cargo load control for damage reduction
- Computerized cargo tracking
Financial Planning/Management
- Cash flow planning and management
- Flexible budget planning
- Establishing overhead costs
- Establishing breakeven levels for total company operations and for each profit center
- Developing pricing policies
- Establishing credit and collection procedures
Space Utilization
- Reduction of deadhead
- Purchasing control system
- Material and supplies monitoring and control
- Effective management of personnel
- Job descriptions and duty lists
- Manualized policies and procedures
- Systematic and effective communication
Equipment Repair/Maintenance
- Scheduled preventive maintenance
- Driver and equipment operator training
- Maintenance records
- Assigned responsibility for operators and for managers
- Drug-free drivers/operators
