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Forty trucks, three carriers and no one who could explain the bill
By the Telecom Agency advisory team
The fleet grew by acquisition. Each batch of trucks came with its own tracking units, its own data plan and its own carrier, and the monthly statements now run to dozens of pages.
What a consultant changes
A Telecom Agency audit lines up every device against every charge and finds the ones billing for trucks that were sold. The advisor then brings the fleet onto plans that pool data across vehicles. A broker sees how several carriers price the same fleet, which is information no single carrier will volunteer.
How Telecom Agency shops the market for trucking companies
- The advice
- An advisor inventories every tracking unit, logging device and phone, then compares carriers on nationwide coverage and on plans that pool data across the fleet.
- The price
- With a fleet, volume is leverage. Carriers bid against each other for the whole account, and lines billing for sold trucks are cancelled first.
- The service
- Units are activated and retired as trucks join and leave. The advisor reconciles the bill against the fleet list on a regular schedule.
- No fee to you: providers pay the advisor
- Every provider compared, none favoured
- One contact for every carrier
- Reviews and support after the install
An illustrative scenario based on situations common among trucking companies. It does not describe a specific client.
