Road haulage

Thanks a buoyant economy, road haulage companies are seeing significant market growth.

Key issues

You may identify with some of the following:

• Up to 30% of all miles are run empty.
• For 15 % of their time in towns HGV drivers are lost.
• Congestion is estimated to cost £20 billion per annum.
• Margins are only 3–4% and falling.
• A burst tyre can wipe out the profit on a trip.
• Smaller firms’ drivers leave on a Monday but have no idea where they will be on Thursday.
• The industry is 50 000 drivers short and the age profile is rising.
• Insurance costs are rising at 20 % per annum.
• 28 % of deliveries are made by foreign–registered vehicles that pay no UK commercial vehicle tax and buy their diesel abroad at up to half of what you pay.

Geographic intelligence can address many of these, delivering:

• vastly improved route planning
• improved deliveries
• easier measurement of transport efficiency
• improved security
• lower transport costs
• the ability to capture an extra load
• reductions in empty miles.

Distribution demo

This illustrates the calculations involved in choosing the optimum route for carrying a package from Winchester to Dublin. Within the demo, click on bulleted links to view animations.

Our offering

OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ Layer

An accurate, detailed and up-to-date digital map of Great Britain’s road structure, it comprises:

• The Roads Network – all navigable roads across Great Britain, from motorways to alleyways; and
• Road Routing Information – route information such as width, weight and height restrictions that will assist your choice of route.

OS Mastermap Address Layer 2

Containing the precise coordinates of over 29 million residential and commercial properties in Great Britain, as well as structures without postal addresses, this provides the most accurate and up-to-date link between any address and its location.

Points of Interest

Classifying nearly 4 million geographic and commercial features across Great Britain, providing a location for each of them and including postal addresses where applicable, with this product you choose what you see on screen, such as all banks within the TW3 postcode district.

Our partners

You will need specialist software, often referred to as a geographical information system (GIS), to gain maximum benefit from our data products. Our partners provide services ranging from licensing off-the-shelf software right through to building you a bespoke solution that embeds our products.

Interested? Please get in touch

We'd like to discuss your geographical information needs in greater detail. In the first instance, please email us and we'll get suggest how to take this forward.