ProvisionAi Takes 88,000 Trucks Off Road in 2023; Goal is 188K in 2024

ProvisionAi announced that companies using its AutoO2 load optimization solution removed 88,000 trucks from the road in 2023. The goal for 2024 is to remove 188,000 trucks, further reducing carbon emissions and helping companies meet their cost and sustainability goals.

"Using AutoO2, companies can fill trucks fuller so that fewer trucks are used for replenishment," says Tom Moore, CEO of ProvisionAi. "With 91% of all trucks underloaded, the time is now to max out trailers, keeping in mind that the loads need to be axle-legal and arrive without any product damage. Our clients increase payload by 5-10%."

There is a global interest in reducing carbon emissions across all manufacturing and distribution processes. In distribution, Scope 3 emissions are generally the largest and often the hardest to control. Two subcategories of Scope 3 emissions relevant to supply chain management are Category 4 and nine (respectively upstream transportation and distribution and downstream). These categories account for most emissions from the movement of goods and materials between suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, and consumers.

To meet ProvisionAi’s goal of removing 188,000 trucks from the road to reduce carbon emissions, solutions include:

Given the fragmentation in the freight industry and the small size of most of the providers’ fleets, requesting carriers change their operations may be wishful thinking. Switching modes may or may not be economically viable with todays’ requirements for high customer service.

One area that almost universally works is building bigger shipments by consolidating loads and optimizing the use of space in vehicles. This reduces the number of trips and the total distance traveled. Load optimization is a winner because it works in most environments.

AutoO2 from ProvisionAi, uses mathematics and artificial intelligence to convert shipping requirements into optimized, full loads, generating savings in carbon, and reducing transportation costs by 5-10%. This powerful technology gathers data from existing systems, for example, the supply planning system, to generate the optimized shipment configuration and the associated 3-D load diagram. AutoO2 also works with customer orders creating the correct grouping to meet the customer need date and maximize the payload or breaking large orders into optimized trucks.

Source: ProvisionAi media announcement