Skip & Vehicle Tracking
Your collection operations digitised. Every vehicle journey, skip movement, site visit and job automatically captured. Tracked skips matched to your individual customer contracts.
- Visibility of every skip at customer, depot and 3rd party locations
- Each skip at customer matched and synchronised to your specific contract ID
- View skips moving around your network in real time
- Every vehicle journey digitally captured and analysed
- Every job recorded and classified – Delivery, Exchange, Collection, Tip & Return, Wait & Load
- Alerts generated when vehicles go off route, journeys or jobs take longer then expected
- Single click investigation through to street level maps and location summaries
Skip Tracker
The world’s first skip tracking device, built for the rigours of the waste industry.
- Low power & low cost
- 10-year battery life
- Made from super-strong, fibre-reinforced resin
- Position updates every few seconds
- Fitted at customer and depot sites by our expert team
Vehicle Scanner
Discreetly fitted behind the dashboard, the PIN Vehicle Scanner enables the live tracking of your collection operations.
- Live GPS tracking to street level
- PTO connection, generating a digital signal when the lifting mechanism of the vehicle is engaged
- Pinpoints the exact location where a skip is delivered, exchanged or collected
- Identifies failed jobs and jobs carried out at unauthorised locations
- Analyses vehicle productivity and empty running
Project Delivery
PIN locates and tracks every skip in your network, quickly and efficiently, without any disruption to your operations. This is an essential component of the service we provide, enabling our customers to start reaping the benefits of digital visibility within a short number of weeks.
Our expert team and tech-enabled process supports you from day 1 until the job is done. A dedicated project manager owns the process, supported by our experienced fitting and back office teams.
We work with your existing data to create a deployment plan, visit every site, reconcile your existing data to real world and oversee the project to completion.
The system then takes over, monitoring your operations to identify and locate the skips you have lost visibility of. Follow up field visits ensure we have captured 100% of your skip fleet.
Automated Intelligence
Once the vehicle scanners are installed, the system starts the process of monitoring your operations.
- Every location visited is digitally mapped
- Virtual boundaries are set around each location, enabling the automated capture of journeys, site visits and jobs as skips and vehicles enter or exit these predefined zones
- Individual journeys and site visits are precisely measured
- New locations are automatically added
- Journey delays and deviations from expected routes are alerted
- Unauthorised locations pinpointed
- Untracked skips are identified and monitored for follow up tracking visits
Over time the system builds a deep understanding of your operation, evolving into a powerful tool to oversee performance.
- Monitor the completion of the daily plan
- Oversee driver and vehicle activity – routes, journey times, customer site visits, turnaround times at depot and 3rd party tipping locations
- Delays en-route or at site are automatically alerted, enabling real time intervention to investigate problems and optimise productivity
- Identify slow moving skips and under-performing contracts, facilitating action to speed up your operations and increase collection volumes
Combine with:
Skip & vehicle tracking technology combined with unique asset tracking software to deliver best-in-class asset & operational visibility.
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- Live monitoring of inventory
- Easy to navigate software
- Route deviations & delay alerts
- Supported by dedicated Account Manager
Customer Success Stories
PIN helped Enva, a leading provider of recycling and resource recovery solutions, unlock full visibility of their skip fleet which enabled them to maximise efficiencies, target slow-movers, increase sales, and improve service. A video case study is now available to view on the PIN YouTube channel showing how PIN has transformed Enva's operations - you can hear directly from the Enva team by watching it now.
PIN helped one of the leading waste management companies in the UK, The NWH Group, transition to the first fully digital RoRo operation in Scotland. First rolling PIN out across their Newcastle depot, The NWH Group were so impressed by the results and data they chose to implement PIN's skip and RoRo tracking solutions across their operation.
Before implementing PIN, Angus Council was facing multiple challenges to do with skip visibility in their operations. PIN worked with them to develop a solution, deploying an innovative real-time visibility system to improve the management of their HWRC network.
Sims Metal initially trialled PIN at their Hartlepool depot, and after seeing the results and value PIN brought, quickly decided to roll out PIN all across their operations. Matt Bumford, Sims' Transport Manager, talked about how easy to use the software is along with how Sims can proactively target slow movers now that they have 100% container visibility.
Testimonials
★★★★★We’ve increased sales through existing customers by £35,000 per month.
★★★★★We are able to oversee our transport operations much more, easily optimising miles and routes. The investment in PIN will pay for itself many times over.
★★★★★With the visibility that PIN gives us, we have been targeting slow movers more aggressively. We have been able to both increase our collection volumes and create capacity for growth, without having to buy more skips.
★★★★★PIN provides an essential underpin to the service we provide. We have reduced slow movers by 70%.
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Skip & Vehicle Tracking FAQ's
How long do the skip tracking devices last?
PIN’s unique skip tracker sends a signal every few seconds and has an expected battery life of 7-years. After which they will be replaced.
How robust are the skip tracking devices?
The trackers are made from super-strong, fibre-reinforced resin, built to withstand all weather conditions and operational environments.
Who fits the tracking devices to my skips?
PIN’s team of operational experts will work with you to understand where your skips are located, we build a project plan and our expert fitters track every skip at your depot & customer locations. We do this quickly, without operational disruption.
How quickly can I be up & running?
This depends on the size of your fleet and geographical footprint. We have tracked up to 800 skips in a week and typically will seek to deliver your project within 2-3 weeks. This includes the tracking of the skips, the configuration on your dedicated software platform, and user-training.
Can your skip tracker tell us when our skip is full?
PIN tracks the location & movement of every skip and shows how long each skip has been on site with customers since the last service. PIN solves the very significant industry problem of not knowing where skips are or how quickly they move.
PIN will show you how frequently the skips are serviced but will not measure its fullness.
How does PIN locate my skips?
We work with you to extract a download of your system, showing where your skips are located. We understand that this data will only be partially accurate. We visit every site that your system believes a skip is located and expect to capture 85% of your total fleet in the first visit.
We then monitor the other sites that your vehicles are visiting to identify and capture the skips that are not visible on your system.
We allow 2 return visits to capture 100% of your skip inventory.
Does PIN protect against container theft?
Whilst skip theft is a growing problem across the industry, our customer data shows very clearly that the much bigger opportunity lies in improving operational visibility and performance.
PIN comes in two broad configurations, one of which specifically identifies and tracks the movement of skips by unauthorised 3rd parties.