ITS DROPFLEET CASE STUDY
Delivering Flexibility and Efficiency through ITS DropFleet — a Dynamic Trailer Pool Solution
A top ten automotive manufacturer needed a unique trailer pool solution, allowing them to store trailers on site to accommodate lengthy loading and unloading times. By taking advantage of the ITS DropFleet solution, the auto manufacturer could pre-load on their own schedule, avoiding the supply chain challenges of live loading.
While many logistics companies were willing to supply trailers for specific, dedicated lanes, this manufacturer also wanted the flexibility to universally assign trailers to any destination.
Solution
Over the partnership, ITS DropFleet provided:
- An extensive trailer pool with over 200 trailers allocated across 16 facilities nationwide and more than 70 daily lanes.
- A dedicated solution that included ITS asset drivers and close network carrier partners.
- Modified trailers specifically tailored to meet the company’s requirements.
- A flexible and efficient solution with a 98% on-time delivery rate.
Having ITS-owned trailers on site gave the customer greater control over loading schedules and allowed drivers to drop and hook. ITS also improved the customer’s supply chain visibility through technology integrations, providing improved supply chain visibility for all ITS trailers, both idle and moving. This arrangement enabled the customer to pre-load trailers, eliminating live loading and providing drivers with a more efficient drop-and-hook process.
Based on the success of the initial solution, the customer expanded its partnership with ITS to cover more of their network. As of Q1 2025, ITS routinely provided the customer with access to over 200 trailers, covering more than 70 daily loads across 16 nationwide facilities.
In addition to trailers, ITS also provided a dedicated solution using ITS asset drivers and close network carrier partners, ensuring reliable on-demand power to meet demand. This combination of trailers and on-demand power delivered an efficient solution with a 98% on-time delivery rate, exceeding the customer-service metric requirements and allowing the customer to quickly scale the solution.
Results
The customer achieved greater operational flexibility and efficiency through ITS DropFleet trailer pools, on-demand power, and high-level service. In less than two years, ITS became integral to the customer’s nationwide supply chain, delivering flexible, reliable service and becoming one of the customer’s top five provider partnerships by volume.
ITS’s DropFleet solution provided the customer with reliable capacity, cost-efficient dedicated trailers, and the flexibility to maintain a streamlined supply chain solution despite complex production schedules and long unload/load times.