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Mark Jones, Fleet Director at AMCO, has been with the business for ten years, initially engaging with the organization as a customer. Over the course of his tenure, Mark has seen AMCO grow exponentially, overcoming a multitude of macroeconomic challenges along the way.
“ With the right strategy in mind, we’ ve grown massively over the past decade,” he affirms.“ The main issue for us is that, like in all industries, we’ re battling increased costs coming from multiple sources. It’ s impacted on the freight industry significantly; it’ s quite difficult to ensure that you remain the best of the best if costs keep increasing, and you can’ t increase your costs to your customers. The best that we can do is look at all options to support our operation, and we ensure that safety comes first, our compliance is legal, and that we run with various technologies to help us maintain our status.”
A core part of AMCO’ s philosophy is its continued investment into its operations, be that its valued people, strategic partners, or technology that enhances safety, efficiency, and performance. By adopting innovative digital solutions across its fleet and day-today operations, for example, the company has been able to maintain high service standards, improve visibility, and support both drivers and customers more effectively.
“ In the last 12 months, we’ ve put new forward-facing and driving-facing cameras into our vehicles to assist in potential road traffic accidents,” Mark elaborates.“ We use technology as much as we can, which helps us to measure and monitor the performance of our fleet. We capture data from vehicles as well as trailers, such as tire pressure, brake effectiveness, and load weight. We have developed an in-house control tower that tracks loads against milestones so we can
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