Huttig Building Products

"We basically run an all-leased fleet of tractors and purchase our trailers," says Erik Nagli, general manager at Huttig. "Right now, we have eight new model 386 Peterbilts and eight older 387's. It is important to me to make sure that our equipment reflects our company's top-of-the-line image. I suppose we might be able to save a little per month going to another truck, but it is just not worth it to me. We have a full-service lease agreement, including maintenance."

"PacTrac allows us to automate our driver logs and to monitor critical elements of each driver's performance, including miles per gallon, over-speeding, excessive speed, over RPM, and idling for long and short periods," Nagli explains. "It also calculates the fuel burned at idle. The system even lets us assign a performance score to each driver based on their metrics and produces a report listing drivers in rank order from the top performer to the poorest performer."

"Before PacTrac, we had four drivers who were getting 6 mpg or better, now we have 11 drivers doing that. We were also able to drop from 18 trucks at this location down to 17 because of better productivity. That alone saves us $115,000 per year total," says Nagli.

"We save about half an hour per driver per day just on filling out log books," he adds. "We used to have time cards, but we had no visibility concerning when a driver actually left the yard as opposed to when he or she clocked in. Now drivers are paid off their logs, too. That saves us another two hours a week of administration time because a clerk does not have to reconcile time cards to logs anymore. Everything ties together, which means we absolutely know that we are compliant, and administration errors are one more thing I don't have to worry about."