{"id":2305,"date":"2021-04-20T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2021-04-20T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:27:28","slug":"andrus-accelerates-final-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/resources\/2021\/04\/20\/andrus-accelerates-final-mile\/2305\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrus Accelerates Final Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many drivers waste away waiting to unload cargo. In the Los Angeles area, the average wait time is about 3.2 hours. For these drivers, it is no different: time is money. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/truck-driving-jobs\/company\/andrus-transportation\/inys8q5Xwf\/\">Andrus Transportation Service, Inc.<\/a> is ahead of the curve, tapping Baton to handle the &#8220;final mile&#8221; of deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baton was able to cut that 3.2 hours wait to 30 minutes in a recent pilot project. This company is solving some of the industry&#8217;s oldest problems with a tech-enabled network of drop zones and a plethora of local drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idle time is a major problem for all companies, especially trucking companies. In this unprecedented time of driver shortage and higher driver salaries, every hour wasted can cost more than\u00a0$100\u00a0in lost revenue. This does not account for unhappy drivers, which can further dent productivity and increase turnover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baton estimates its software can increase a trucking company&#8217;s asset utilization by up to 50%. This company is already used by each of the industry&#8217;s top 10 companies. It only operates in Los Angeles currently, but will soon expand to three other huge cities: Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many drivers waste away waiting to unload cargo. In the Los Angeles area, the average wait time is about 3.2 hours. For these drivers, it is no different: time is money. Andrus Transportation Service, Inc&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[402,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}