New Application Offers Fuel Management Capability in Real Time

27th January 2017

Logistics BusinessNew Application Offers Fuel Management Capability in Real Time

Europe’s hauliers and road-transport companies can now monitor and manage their entire fleet’s fuel consumption in real-time – or at least, that’s the promise of new technology from IDS. The company claims it represents a win for logistics firms as they seek to be more fuel-efficient and achieve greater security in their own resource management, while potentially also benefitting Europe’s manufacturers and retailers with lowered freight costs and helping the overall environment via reduced emissions. Oil price volatility over the last decade has only heightened hauliers’ desire to have the best possible technology for monitoring their fleet’s fuel performance.

iAccount now provides IDS customers with that technology, the most advanced solution in the fuelling industry. From a simple online dashboard, a haulier’s depot team can access a library of real-time information about their trucks’ current movements and fuel performance around the continent. It works by sending all actions immediately over the whole network, thereby giving head-office teams not just control over card usage but complete peace of mind: Precision management and top-class security, all in one package.

As one of Europe’s leading fuelling-service providers, IDS already supplies its haulage customers with electronic payment cards for drivers – redeemable for diesel at 600 filling stations across major road routes on the continent. Now, with iAccount, IDS customers can not only remotely control the provision and usage of those cards by drivers (blocking and unblocking cards from headquarters, controlling card volumes, adjusting limits across the fleet, and much more) but also monitor and manage their usage in near-real-time. Actions undertaken on iAccount are sent immediately across the whole network. With a unique level of security offering complete reassurance, headquarters teams can ‘open’ and ‘close’ allowed filling stations, monitor transactions almost as they are being made, plan optimal fuel-efficient routes, pull up financial information, pricing history, credit details and much more besides.