MANSIO provides a logistics platform that utilizes a trailer exchange system, allowing trucks to operate more efficiently by minimizing empty miles and reducing fixed costs through optimized route management. This approach addresses the rising operational expenses in the transport industry while enhancing delivery speed and safety, ultimately enabling companies to offer new regional services without the burden of return loads.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
The trucking industry faces increasing operational costs, particularly due to empty miles and underutilized assets, which reduces profitability for transportation companies. Drivers also spend considerable time searching for parking and are often away from home for extended periods.
Solution
MANSIO provides a software platform that facilitates relay trucking, enabling carriers to optimize routes and minimize empty miles through a trailer exchange system. The platform matches transport requests across different companies, allowing trucks to operate more efficiently by handing off trailers at designated relay points. This approach reduces fixed costs by enabling more intensive utilization of trucks and improving driver work-life balance, as drivers return home after each shift. MANSIO's system also enhances delivery speed and safety by keeping goods in transit and reducing the need for parking along highways.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes freight carriers and shippers seeking to reduce transport costs, minimize empty miles, improve truck utilization, and enhance driver satisfaction.
Features
- AI-powered algorithm for matching transport requests and optimizing routes across multiple carriers
- Real-time data integration for dynamic tour optimization and trailer handover management
- TMS interface for seamless integration with existing transport management systems
- Driver app for managing handover processes at relay points
- Automated financial settlement between relay partners
- Support for ring exchange via hubs, bilateral exchanges, and long-distance relay via "Stafettenverkehre"
- Integration of alternative drive systems through optimized route planning