• Grand Island Express achieves efficiency and revenue gains with Optimal Dynamics

    Automation has allowed Grand Island Express to handle more volume with the same amount of office staff and drivers.
    Aug. 15, 2024
    2 min read
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    Grand Island Express achieves efficiency and revenue gains with Optimal Dynamics

    Optimal Dynamics, an AI provider for trucking companies, recently announced the success achieved by its customer, refrigerated carrier Grand Island Express. Within weeks of deploying the Optimal Dynamics platform, Grand Island Express achieved operational efficiencies and record-breaking results.

    Grand Island Express faced the challenge of managing precisely timed deliveries on irregular routes, especially for high-volume fresh and frozen boxed meat shipments. Traditional manual dispatching methods proved inadequate, leading the company to invest in Optimal Dynamics to solve its challenges. The platform automates load allocation and dispatching decisions to maximize network utilization and profitability.

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    The implementation of Optimal Dynamics yielded improvements via decision automation. When comparing year-over-year results for May, the first full month on the platform, Grand Island Express achieved the following:

    • 5.7% increase in linehaul revenue
    • 9.3% increase in load count
    • 13.6% increase in loaded miles
    • empty miles reduced from 13.5% to 10.6%

    "During the past two years, we squeezed everything we could out of our network, but there are limits to what humans can bring into their decision-making process," said Deen Albert, VP of operations at Grand Island Express. "This need to automate and optimize operations made us look into Optimal Dynamics. The real-time dispatching tool within the Optimal Dynamics platform is built for speed. It acts as a supercharger to McLeod."

    Automation has allowed Grand Island Express to handle more volume with the same amount of office staff and drivers. The platform's ability to automate routine planning decisions has freed up 80% of fleet managers to focus on high-value activities such as managing driver relationships and handling exceptions. 

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