Founded in 1936 with a single tractor-trailer, Huffman Trucking (Huffman), a national transportation company, is located in Cleveland OH. Today, Huffman has over 1,400 employees, 800 tractors, expected revenue to surpass $600,000,000 and is still privately held. Huffman has hubs located in Los Angeles, CA, St. Louis, MO, Bayonne, NJ with the central maintenance facility located in Cleveland OH. Their working contracts are primarily with the US Government, automotive parts industry, electronic consumer products, raw materials, and any special customer accommodations.
Huffman’s vision is to become a model company to its stockholders, employees, customers, and stakeholders, while the mission is to be a profitable, growing, adaptive company in an intensely competitive logistical services business environment.
While Huffman Trucking has stayed on the leading edge of technology in most departments, one area still lacks in automation. Huffman has continually overlooked the automation of the fleet maintenance records and put this project on the bottom of the priority list for far too long. Now that most of Huffman’s trucks are between 10 and 18 years-old, mechanical breakdowns are occurring more frequently.
Maintenance costs have soared recently and based on the lack of information available, lost paperwork and receipts, and misfiled maintenance documentation, senior management has finally made the decision to take action. “Pen and paper” record keeping is no longer making the grade here at Huffman Trucking. The maintenance facility located in Cleveland OH needs to adopt automation and the need for a Fleet Truck Maintenance Database Management System has now become “top priority.”
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