Faversham, UK: Harrier Express has upgraded its refrigerated trailers with Orbcomm’s temperature management telematics.
Longhurst Refrigeration, one of Orbcomm’s UK distributors, fitted 60 refrigerated trailers with the telematics hardware. This provides two-way reefer control, maintenance scheduling, temperature compliance data and real-time alerts.
Harrier Express has visibility, management and control of its unaccompanied trailer fleet as it travels through multiple points and handlers in the Cross-Channel supply chain, Orbcomm said.
Harrier Express moves frozen food across the English channel. Brexit prompted a shift to unaccompanied trailer freight and a doubling of the number of trailers operated.
“Working with Orbcomm has eliminated the risk of disruption to our business at multiple points of the supply chain,” said Simon Wilkinson, owner, Harrier Express.
“We have saved ourselves from many potential claims, reduced time spent tracking trailers manually, helped improve maintenance scheduling and added remote control of the refrigerated units which we did not have before”.
