To efficiently handle our volume of business, Allied employs some very sophisticated systems. To deal with over 1000 vehicles making over 30,000 deliveries daily, Allied has installed a proprietary
route-management system to manage this volume of traffic.

The process begins with knowing the exact status of our fleet via GPS tracking and Mobile Data Terminal. Unlike our competitors, Allied’s system checks, or ‘polls’, the entire fleet every two minutes to ascertain location, direction, destination and priority level of jobs on board. Moreover, the system will also factor in vehicle capacity, type; even the level of experience of the driver in search of the best
selection to satisfy a job.

The moment a job comes in, the system offers the optimum vehicle to take the job with two optional vehicles as back- ups based on the previous poll’s information. All this data is constantly refreshed to enable us to keep pick-up and delivery times to a minimum and to extract the greatest possible productivity from our available transport resources.

For local and national distribution clients, the management system also looks at fleet optimising by matching the specifics of a clients freight requirements to vehicle types and numbers. In this way, transport resources are neither over- or under-allocated and the best, most cost effective fleet ‘mix’ is assigned to service the clients needs.

By utilising these system tools and by constantly developing new ones,we are able to make the best use of the available fleet and to continue to offer a high level of service to our clients.