19.05 trucking has been in the transportation business since 2021 and has been using Mapon solutions from day one. We caught up with the company’s owners, Artur Dukalsky and Pavel Korol, to find out how our solutions have helped a young company grow and deliver quality services in a fiercely competitive industry.

Artur starts by saying that when he and Pavel founded the company, it was immediately clear that telematics solutions must be used. Both founders of 19.05 trucking had a positive experience with Mapon in their previous workplace, and they liked the platform’s logical, user-friendly interface and extensive functionality.

Now, as managers, Artur and Pavel continue to benefit from Mapon – their company uses almost all of the solutions we offer. Driver behaviour monitoring and fleet fuel management are particularly highly valued, as these solutions help quickly identify resource-saving opportunities, and for a young company, this is especially relevant.

In general, fleet managers first notice and feel the impact of high fuel consumption. Fuel monitoring and driver behaviour analysis are essential to improving this metric.

The former helps to tackle fuel waste and theft, while the latter detects a range of fuel-wasting driving habits.

19.05 trucking actively uses both solutions, so we at Mapon were particularly interested to hear what results our platform has helped to achieve.

All 19.05 trucking vehicles are equipped with fuel floats. This solution reassures all the company’s employees that their work is done in good faith.

Artur points out that drivers also appreciate this approach – even when the fuel floats were not yet installed, employees knew that the company was using sensors to measure fuel levels and respected this decision.

Artur recalls a case when someone tried to steal fuel from a vehicle while it was parked. After this incident, the company’s drivers themselves demanded a full fuel monitoring system with alarms.

Now 19.05 trucking employees can feel safe because their fuel is protected by an alarm system. This is also communicated by stickers on the vehicle – so criminals know the theft attempt is not worth it.

Mapon’s driving behaviour solution measures eight parameters – four risky and four safe driving patterns.

19.05 representatives point out that analysing grades for harsh braking or acceleration makes more sense in the long term, e.g. within one year. The impact of such driving behaviour can be detected during the annual vehicle inspection and repair.

But fuel consumption impacts a company immediately, so it is essential to identify drivers with inefficient driving styles. This is precisely why 19.05 utilises Mapon’s driving behaviour solution.

The company owners gave us a specific example of how driving behaviour analysis helped to identify and improve inefficient driving. Fuel consumption reports helped to detect the driver who was spending the most fuel, even though his overall driving style grade was not particularly bad.

Here is what Pavel says:

“I went for a couple of trips with the driver myself and realised that he drove the truck like a light vehicle.

We discussed the situation with the driver, and then I sent him information from Mapon at the end of each day. We had regular phone calls and talked about daily results. We experimented with where and how to turn and at what speed, doing this for about a month so that the driver could develop new habits.”

After this training, average fuel consumption dropped by 2 litres per 100 km, generating €300 in monthly savings.

Getting back to the driver grades, they were already good at 19.05 to begin with. The company explains this is due to only hiring experienced drivers. In practice, however, a good driving grade does not always mean low fuel consumption. This is why 19.05 stresses the importance of talking to drivers and educating them on how to save money by adjusting their driving style.

Pavel is responsible for driver training at the company as he has been driving for many years and continues to deliver cargo in Europe. He also maintains his YouTube channel, Pavel Korol Live, dedicated to the work of a long-haul trucker.

Both managers note that they are lucky with their role assignments at the company. Artur is more of an office person, working with numbers and looking at fleet management from an efficiency perspective, while Pavel keeps in touch with drivers and what’s happening on the road. That’s why he’s responsible for employee communication and training.

19.05 notes that feedback and suggestions from an experienced driver are much better received by employees than comments from an office specialist.

Talking to drivers in their language can achieve better results. The aim is not to control for control’s sake or to impose some driving norms but to show how to drive better using the data gathered by Mapon.

“Every day we check out what’s new, whether everyone has caught up. I have to say, there are some mornings when the first thing I do is look at the Mapon manager’s app and check that everything is as it should be.

Just as other people check Instagram, we in the transport industry check Mapon.

Thanks to comprehensive fleet monitoring, we provide a high level of service, and our customers are very satisfied, appreciating that there are almost no delays. But in the background of all this is our work, where we keep track of everything with the help of Mapon.”

– says Artur.

As 19.05 trucking transports goods across the European Union, it also actively uses the Tachogram platform to track drivers’ work and rest times. Another reason to opt for this solution was the need for a convenient accounting system, as the company has one person in charge of payroll: Artur.

“As the person in charge of working with data, I can easily obtain reports, round up travel allowances, and other financial matters.

It has become 100% easier to calculate payrolls, I don’t even know how I would have done it without Tachogram. It takes me up to one hour to calculate salaries for ten people because I already have a report ready to be sent to the accountant.”

Another equally important benefit of Tachogram is the possibility of easily complying with EU working and rest time rules. As not only drivers but also companies must comply with these rules, accurate records of working and rest times are essential. If Tachogram did not provide this transparency, the company would be at great risk of heavy fines.

“We no longer worry about reading cards and tachograph data within legal time limits – everything is automated. It’s one less headache for us,”

– points out Artur.

Pavel adds that drivers are now so used to Tachogram that they get very worried if the platform doesn’t work as it should. Once, Tachogram was unavailable because a tachograph had to be replaced, and the company card had to be removed. During those few days, the company received a huge number of messages and calls from drivers who were worried that Tachogram was not working.

The founders of 19.05 trucking have had the opportunity to see the advantages of Mapon as both employees and managers. Now, Artur and Pavel recommend Mapon to everyone working in the transportation industry.

“We are like Mapon ambassadors – we tell everyone we know about it and recommend it.

“I’ve heard people working for companies that don’t use Mapon complain about missing features or functionality. We always tell them that implementing Mapon would solve their problems entirely. Honestly, I’m not sure how we’d manage our operations without Mapon.”

– concludes Artur.

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