Real-Time Railcar Tracking You Can Slap On + Forget
Only 1 in 40 railcars in North America has telematics that reports where it is right now.
Source: Telegraph.io
The other 39 go dark when they leave the yard.
You're left guessing where a car is and when it'll arrive. If it's late, someone calls the yard to find it.
By then, it's already costing you.
What Dark Railcars Cost You
- →Hours chasing cars. Calls to the yard, emails to the railroad, and someone's whole afternoon spent tracking down one car.
- →Idle cars. A car sitting in the wrong yard isn't moving your material.
- →Late fees. A car sits too long, and you find out when the bill shows up.
- →Customer trust. When you can't say when material will arrive, your customers can't plan either.You don't need a new system. You need real-time railcar tracking to tell you where it is.
You don't need a new system. You need your railcars to tell you where they are.
Meet Slap-N-Track
Slap it on. It starts tracking.
- →No external power needed
- →No shop visit to install
- →Battery life of up to 10 years (~10,000 pings)
- →Reports every time a car leaves or arrives at a yard, plus check-ins on a schedule you set, whether the car is moving or parked
Know when a car is stuck
SNT logs every yard departure and arrival, so you always know how long a car has been sitting. That means you can:
- →Catch a car that should have left the yard but didn't
- →Give your customers a real arrival time, not a best guess
- →See the stalled car before the bill hits, not after
SNT 1.2 In the Field
On Railcars:
When a railcar doesn’t leave the yard on time, an American bulk materials and concrete solutions company would find out only when the train showed up without the shipment. With SNT, now they can see where it’s at in real-time and call the rail company to get the car moving again.
Telegraph:
Tracking data only helps if it shows up where you already work. Telegraph's Rail Operating System (ROS) helps manage shipments, ETAs and demurrage.
Telegraph integrated SNT 1.2 into its ROS. Here's why:
- →SNT 1.2 slaps right onto the railcar.
- →The car reports when it leaves or arrives at a yard, plus check-ins on a schedule you set.
- →That data shows up in Telegraph, next to your shipment data and arrival predictions.
You don't have an extra screen to check or a new tool to learn.
“Our job is to make it easy to get reliable data from the physical asset.”
Ryne DeBoer, President and CEO, Morey
39 out of 40 railcars are still in the dark.
Light up yours, and you'll see what most of the industry can't.
Let's see what your railcars have been keeping to themselves.