Car Delivery Network (CDN) is seeing a steady stream of trucking companies signing up for vinDELIVER, its market-leading ePOD software, due to OEM Ford’s requirement in the US that all service suppliers must offer ePOD capability.

According to CDN’s General Manager Derric Hicks, although Ford does not specify the software, an increasing number of trucking operations serving Ford are selecting CDN’s vinDELIVER because of its wider functionality.

“We’re proud to announce that our most recent new business gains include Yada Enterprises and Southern Trucking Enterprises, with a number of other transportation companies in the CDN pipeline,” he said. “CDN comes highly recommended by AT Advantage, who provide the transport management system (TMS) used by Yada, Southern and many others.”

Both companies are now live and expect to achieve ePOD compliance for Ford, as well as an easy transition from paper to ePOD for their drivers, which will streamline their process and reducing time and cost.

CDN’s cloud-based software, provides not just ePOD functionality, but is effectively an online TMS for carriers, with built in loadboards, API connectivity and network communications. Carriers can simply connect their existing transport management and logistics planning
systems to vinDELIVER and start collecting information electronically in real time from their drivers at the point of service delivery.

Information such as signatures, damage photos, AIAG damage codes, scanned paperwork, GPS locations, status updates and time stamps can be stored on the system and can be made available to the OEM’s system using a simple API or accessed via the web portal.
VinDELIVER is available as a free mobile app from Google or Apple, enabling drivers to collect pickup and delivery information on their tablets or smartphones; it can also be loaded onto fully rugged units.

Derric Hicks concludes, “We believe that there is real momentum towards ePOD in the marketplace, as more OEMs mandate carriers to adopt the technology. Also, carriers themselves are independently recognizing the benefits of increased visibility and control in the ‘final mile’ of the supply chain. Real time reporting has enabled significant improvement is customer service and satisfaction, delivering value-add competitive edge.”

Thousands of drivers are already using vinDELIVER. Currently, CDN has over 1330 registered automotive transport fleets across the U.S. and Canada, including some of the largest and best known operators, who between them service 10 OEMs.