BeyondTrucks recently integrated its AI-powered, multi-tenant transportation management system (TMS) with Breakthrough’s sustainable fuel and freight solutions.
Through this new integration, BeyondTrucks fleet customers will be able to seamlessly secure the fuel amounts calculated by Breakthrough’s Fuel Recovery solution for invoicing purposes with their mutual shipper clients, the TMS provider reported.
“Traditional fuel surcharge calculations that rely on national or regional average fuel prices often result in significant discrepancies between actual carrier fuel costs and benchmark rates, leading to inaccurate load acceptance decisions and potential over and underpayment by shippers,” BeyondTrucks CEO Hans Galland said in a news release. “Breakthrough’s Fuel Recovery solution provides market-based fuel reimbursement calculations based on exact prices, timing, taxes, and geography of freight movements. This integration allows BeyondTrucks fleet customers to simplify compliance with a shipper’s fuel pricing requirements, making fleets more attractive partners.”
Integration eliminates the need for carriers to perform manual lookups when handling transactions with shippers. Utilizing Fuel Recovery ensures BeyondTrucks customers who partner with Breakthrough shippers can reduce invoicing errors and speed up payment cycles by streamlining the fuel-cost management.
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Modern Transportation, a leading tank truck carrier, initially applied fuel calculations generated by Breakthrough Fuel Recovery manually for about 50 shipments per month. The 330-truck BeyondTrucks customer now is using the new integration on hundreds of transactions each day, BeyondTrucks said.
“With one of our largest shipper customers using Breakthrough Fuel Recovery, manually incorporating fuel amounts in shipments on a large scale was simply not sustainable,” said Dan Benacquista, Modern vice president of strategic operations and planning. “With the BeyondTrucks integration we’re saving hours per week and we’re producing error-free invoices.
“Our customers benefit at the same time from more timely invoicing, and ultimately our cost savings.”