Improve your ETA accuracy with the CO3 Virtual Tacho

In the road freight industry, efficiency hinges on predictability. When a commitment is made to move goods with precision, uncertainty is the biggest obstacle. Our latest update is focused on delivering a new level of operational clarity, empowering your team to operate with greater confidence and accuracy.

The New Standard for Precision: CO3 Virtual Tacho

The inability to deliver an accurate Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) creates costly blind spots that affect the entire supply chain. We've introduced the CO3 Virtual Tacho to establish a new standard for ETA accuracy. This feature improves ETA accuracy for all of our customers, especially within timeframes of 2–12 hours ahead of arrival.

How the Virtual Tacho works for you:

1. Dynamic Detection: The CO3 platform automatically captures stops, breaks, and movements for every vehicle in your fleet in real time.
2. Intelligent Driver Logic: We build a real-time Virtual Tacho for each truck, outlining actual driving and rest periods over the last two weeks.
3. Compliance Check: The system checks this data against legal driving and rest time requirements to determine the remaining legal drive time.
4. More accurate ETAs: This crucial remaining drive time is factored into our proprietary ETA algorithm, ensuring predictions are significantly more precise than simple routing models and static drive time rules that fail to account for the operational realities and driver limitations.

ETA prediction where the breaks, shown to the right, are applied to the virtual tacho for improved accuracy

This improvement allows us to leverage break data from the past two weeks, resulting in significantly higher ETA precision compared to existing algorithm standards. In the graph below, each point represents the predicted versus actual break times — the closer the points are to the center line, the more accurate the prediction. As shown, the CO3 Virtual Tacho consistently delivers ETAs that stay closer to reality than any standard routing-based solution:

Actionable Intelligence: Real-Time Notifications

Clarity drives progress. With these highly accurate ETAs, you gain the ability to manage by exception and ensure your data leads to immediate action. Our Real-Time Notifications system supports this:

• Instant Alerts: Tailor alerts for predicted delays, verified arrivals, or any custom event critical to your workflow.
• Seamless Integration: Notifications are provided via API or integrated directly into popular messaging platforms (e.g., Slack and MS Teams).
• Proactive Operations: Use these alerts to proactively communicate, minimize manual tracking, and boost overall operational efficiency.

By connecting and communicating reliable data, these features clear the way for your teams to work smarter and deliver better results.

These two steps significantly strengthen our customers’ ability to deliver their customer commitments in terms of quality and reliability and are the first in a series of improvements to retain CO3’s status as the best-in-class ETA algorithm.

If you would like to learn more, please reach out to your respective account manager. We would be delighted to share a demo with you!

CO3. We clear the way.