Cheetah Software aims to help truckers cope with fuel costs

In the transportation industry for more than 20 years, Cheetah Software has served small, medium and large carriers.

The Trucker News Services

8/4/2008

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — According to the American Trucking Association, carriers will spend over $135 billion for fuel in 2008, up a staggering 18 percent from 2007. As a result, carriers are realizing they have to evolve and become more efficient or risk going out of business.

Regional LTL carrier Ward Trucking says it evaluated its largely manual processes and recognized that automation was the means to greater profitability.

“We needed to figure out how to break the back of escalating fuel costs by boosting driver efficiency and slashing costs,” said Greg Confer, vice president of asset management for Ward Trucking.

Ward engaged in an exhaustive study of the LTL logistics software market, the company said. And their search identified Cheetah Freight from Cheetah Software Systems Inc. as offering a unique approach to dramatically reducing fuel costs and improving margins.

“We researched about twenty vendors and Cheetah came out on top,” said Confer. “Cheetah provided us with a one-stop solution that contained the same or advanced functionality, compared to alternatives that would have cost us ten times as much.”

Cheetah Freight helped Ward intelligently optimize routes and respond quickly and effectively to in-route events. The result: Ward increased its number of stops by 10 percent while reducing miles driven by 6 percent.

According to Confer, “Cheetah helped us save over $1,500,000 per year in fuel and labor.”

In the transportation industry for more than 20 years, Cheetah Software has served small, medium and large carriers.

“We know trucking and transportation like no other software company. With our proven systems, a dispatcher can quickly determine the most efficient routes and update them, on-the-fly, in real time, to make meaningful reductions in miles driven and thus, fuel usage,” said Stephan Karczag, vice president of Cheetah Software. “We are gratified that we have helped Ward revolutionize their speed of service, and save money doing it.”