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Kannur has few transport companies and a great many small fleets: pepper lorries off the Iritty ghat road, delivery vans working the coast, cars waiting at Thavakkara.
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The district's vehicles belong to businesses that do something else for a living. A dealer runs three lorries to fetch his own stock. A wholesaler sends vans out along the coast between Payyanur and Thalassery every morning. Hill traders bring pepper and rubber down to the markets. Each owner keeps the whole thing in a diary: who went where, how much diesel, when the permit falls due.
Fleet and dispatch management software on ERPNext holds each vehicle, its papers and its trips. Trips are planned against orders or bookings, drivers assigned, fuel and expenses logged per trip, maintenance scheduled by date or by kilometres, and insurance, permit, fitness and tax renewals raised as alerts well ahead. Trip cost and revenue reach the accounts without a second set of books.
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Diesel is the biggest running cost and the least watched. Recording every fill against an odometer reading gives a mileage figure per vehicle and per driver, and the outliers appear within weeks, so the conversation is about readings rather than suspicion.
A vehicle stopped with a lapsed permit costs a fine and a day's work. Every document's expiry held in one place, with reminders raised well ahead, turns a renewal into routine office work instead of a Monday morning emergency.
A lorry delivers towards Mangaluru or Kozhikode and comes back with nothing, because no one matched it to a load that was waiting. A board showing planned trips and open loads together lets the office fill more of those return legs.
An example
The lorry is loaded at the Iritty market before seven and the driver logs the trip start on his phone, with the weighbridge slip photographed into it. Diesel taken at the pump on the way down goes in against the odometer. By the time the load reaches the godown near Kannur town the office already knows the quantity, the freight and the fuel, and the purchase entry carries its transport cost without anyone working it out. On the same screen the dispatcher sees the vehicle free from noon and books it a return load of hardware going back up the hill. That evening the driver's advance, batta and expenses settle against one running account.
Fleet work is compact. We spend a day in your yard watching how a trip is given out and settled today, then configure vehicles, documents, expense heads and trip formats remotely. Drivers and supervisors learn three phone entries: trip start, fuel, trip end. Where trackers are already fitted we check whether their distance can be pulled in, so the figure does not depend on anybody's memory.
Discovery. Your vehicles, drivers, trips, fuel and maintenance, and how dispatch runs today.
Blueprint and fixed scope. A clear plan, the deliverables and the timeline, agreed in writing before configuration starts.
Configuration. Vehicles, trips, dispatch, fuel and maintenance logs, and trip costing.
Data migration. Vehicle and driver records, service history and running contracts.
Training, go-live and support. Your team tests on real data, we stand beside you at launch, then support continues under a plan.
The scope and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
Spice and plantation trade
Inward trips from the estates and the Kodagu border down to the market towns, weighbridge figures against each load, hire charges for outside lorries, and transport cost carried to the purchase it belongs to.
Retail and wholesale trade
Van routes planned from the godown, delivery notes and collections tied to the trip that made them, driver allowances settled the same evening, and cost per route set against what the route actually sells.
Tourism (Theyyam, beaches)
Airport transfers and day tours assigned to cars and drivers, duty slips printed for each booking, allowances settled per trip, and vehicle availability visible during the crowded season weeks.
Often it does, because a fleet that size has no transport manager and the owner carries all of it himself. If fuel, maintenance and renewals are genuinely under control on paper, we will say so. Usually one of the three is not.
The software runs trips, costs, maintenance and documents. Position comes from devices fitted to the vehicles, which can be integrated so that distance and location appear in the same place. If trackers are already installed we check first whether their data can be read.
Yes. Advances before a trip, expenses with bills, batta and any incentive all sit against the trip and settle together. Each driver has a running account, which ends the arguments that come from settling on loose slips at the end of a week.
After a first conversation about your fleet size, the trips you run and how dispatch and costing work today, we agree the scope and send you a written quotation. The price, the deliverables and the timeline are fixed against that scope before any work starts, so nothing grows without your sign-off.
You speak to someone who does this work, not a call centre. They ask about your fleet, how trips are assigned and where costs are hard to see. If it looks like a fit, we agree the scope and put it in writing, with the timeline, before any work starts. If it does not, we tell you.
Thavakkara Central Bus Terminal, Kannurtransport
city's main bus terminal near the railway station, built on a build-operate-transfer basis; KSRTC depots also at Payyanur and Thalassery
The town's main terminal, beside the railway station, is where hired cars and small operators start the day and where duty slips and driver settlements pile up.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThalassery Railway Stationtransport
class A station on the Shoranur–Mangalore line serving the Thalassery–Palayad industrial belt
Goods and passengers moving through Thalassery feed the Palayad industrial belt, so short shuttle runs between station, godown and factory go on all day.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIritty marketmarket
main marketplace for hill farmers selling pepper, rubber and cashew; gateway town for trade with Kodagu and Mysuru via SH 30
The gateway town for trade with Kodagu and Mysuru sends pepper, rubber and cashew down the ghat road, which is where load, freight and weighbridge records begin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPlaces and organisations are named for local context only. Acube Innovations is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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