ATC-Onlane Continues to Drive Online Transportation Business Forward With New Features From CarsArrive Acquisition
MENLO PARK, Calif.--ATC-Onlane, the leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles, today announced that it has integrated the transportation capabilities from its acquisition of CarsArrive last October, and is now offering new features from the combined technologies. As a result of the acquisition, ATC-Onlane offers the industry’s most comprehensive suite of transportation logistics, tracking and distribution tools for carriers, dealers and sellers.
Based on the smooth integration of CarsArrive, ATC-Onlane is already bringing forth new features from the marriage of the two companies, including a bulk upload tool that provides sellers moving a large volume of vehicles the ability to easily upload vehicle information. Without the hassle of manually entering information for each vehicle separately, ATC-Onlane now enables sellers to simply upload any file format containing details of all the vehicles that need to be shipped. These vehicles are then made available to a carrier network of over 4,500 companies representing approximately 30,000 trucks.
In conjunction with the new bulk upload tool, ATC-Onlane’s sophisticated system intelligently groups and displays combined company loads together so that vehicles can be bundled more efficiently, resulting in lower overall costs for shippers. ATC-Onlane’s consignors can now find out how many unique carriers have viewed their load and then adjust pricing accordingly.
In addition to extensive Web-based tracking and inventory features, ATC-Onlane’s system enables vehicles to be exposed to a trusted network of nationwide carriers. Efficiently consolidating shipments for the carrier network greatly reduces cycle time and provides carriers with full visibility of available supply. Using Web-based tools, carriers can extract loads and provide notification of pick up and drop off from their cell phones. All data is collated in real time to provide full visibility to shippers with a consolidated view of all their vehicles. Utilizing this data, including current truck routes and locations, ATC-Onlane can channel the load to the closest available qualified carrier.
"Quite simply this is the best transport management system on the market today. It is easy to use and the notifications and automated paperwork mean that we can focus on hauling vehicles efficiently,” said Wayne Penta, president, Penta Auto Transport, Inc. and Penta Auto Logistics, Inc. “Shipments are intelligently grouped together so our trucks are able to plan their routes more effectively and make sure vehicles get delivered within our committed timeframes.”
In a number of cases, vehicles are being made available to carriers before they are even grounded at the pick-up location. By giving visibility of available freight to carriers in advance, vehicles are efficiently consolidated, providing carriers with an anticipated date of their arrival, greatly reducing cycle time.
“Since the acquisition just 90 days ago, we’ve been working diligently to integrate the CarsArrive system with our technology. Since our systems were so complementary to each other, the transition was smooth and enabled us to quickly provide our customers the immediate benefits of our innovative transportation system,” said Warren Schewitz, vice president of strategic development at ATC-Onlane. “With new features like the bulk upload tool, sophisticated optimization and tracking capabilities, as well as the expansive carrier base we now have access to, our customers have complete control over their transportation needs, as well as a more time and cost efficient means of getting vehicles from one place to another.”
About ATC-Onlane
ATC-Onlane, Inc. is the leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles. The company offers proven, end-to-end auto remarketing solutions to auto manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease and daily rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale auto auctions throughout the United States and Canada. Since 1999, ATC-Onlane’s products and services have enabled customers to reduce cycle times, costs, and achieve greater profitability. For more information, please visit www.atc-onlane.com or call +1 (866) 969-0321.