One of the region's largest trucking and transportation companies has tapped a Pittsburgh-based software firm to manage the dispatching of 1,700 trucks and 25 service centers.
Pitt Ohio Transportation Group announced it plans to use the dispatching platform from Maven Machines Inc., the makers of a cloud-based and real-time fleet management platform for trucking fleets and operators, across its footprint.
As a result of this partnership, Pitt Ohio is anticipating it will be able to reduce fuel costs, improve its driver-to-dispatcher ratio and incorporate performance data garnered from Maven's software for use in driver and employee coaching.
"Our standards are extremely high, and Maven provides best-in-class technology for [less than truckload operations], allowing us to run a safer, more profitable fleet," Chuck Hammel III, president of Pitt Ohio, said in a prepared statement. "Maven is helping us improve the customer experience with reduced claims and a happy, safe fleet of drivers, and the benefits will multiply from here."
East Liberty-based Maven Machines closed on a $10 million Series A funding round in Q3 2022, one of the largest funding rounds obtained by a Pittsburgh startup that quarter. The company employs about 50 people.
