TECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN CONSTRUCTION


HCSS Brings New Technology Solution to Trucking Sector


By Carol Eaton


construction industry over the past couple of decades. As cloud-based technology solutions have gained real traction and mobile platforms have become the norm, even the more tradi- tional, paper-driven market sectors like heavy haul trucking have begun seeing the benefits that digitization brings to the bottom line. Tis year, leading technology


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provider HCSS officially rolled out a digital solution for contractors in the heavy construction sector that allows them to manage their trucking opera- tions more efficiently. More than three years in the making, the new “HCSS


echnology adoption has been a slow but steady process for the notoriously change-averse


Trucking” system delivers a ground- breaking, easy-to-use technology that benefits not only HCSS’s heavy construction contractor clients but also owners, independent brokers and drivers themselves.


Software + Hardware Solution


Te HCSS Trucking solution


eliminates the paper ticket process for hauling materials, which can be inefficient, slow, and an easy target for fraud. Instead, it offers a combination of simple, cloud-based software apps combined with low cost, easy-to-install hardware. Contractors are able to manage brokered and company-owned trucks with ease. Te system features a mobile app for ticket writers in the field to record trucks entering and


exiting the job site and create paperless tickets, sending load and dump events to the office. Managers can see cycle times in real time to spot herding or request additional trucks, optimizing and improving operations immediately. Te hardware portion of the HCSS


Trucking system comprises Bluetooth- enabled “iBeacon” receivers that drivers keep in their trucks, allowing them to be recognized by the app in the field any time they are in range. “LoadBots,” or unmanned ticket taker devices, can be set up at job site entrances or dump sites to record trucks automatically. Te iBeacons send out pings to


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Josh McDonald, R&D product development manager, HCSS


The cycle visualizer enables users to review their truck cycle. www.AGC-CA.org Associated General Contractors of California 13


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