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Facilitating the check-in process of the truck driver

TruckerCheckIn.com is a portal for international drivers with the task of "Facilitating the check-in process of a truck driver"

What to Pack for Your Truck Driver Before They Leave and How to make an online check-in

An international truck driver does not have a simple life because of the stack of CMR documents, often thick like a book. Drivers spend most of their time filling out documents, scanning CMR, registering at the office, and checking in in foreign languages. Even for the most intelligent drivers, the registration process is complicated because they do not speak the same language, so it loses a lot in translation. Office workers and security personnel do not provide all necessary information on registration, understandably. Office staff after a long time of work falls into a routine and does not understand the truck driver who is registering his visit to the location for the first time. This is the reason for delays in transport. I personally experienced problems with registration in large factories in Germany and France. Every driver should get a printed map of the factory and move according to the map. Unfortunately, there were no maps, and I had to improvise. I did not get information about which gate to enter and which to leave, where the truck weight is located, where offices, toilets, and shower are located. The loading registration forms in Polish, English, and German have also finished; then the light bulb above my head came on - and to put all the necessary information on one website to which every driver will have access for 24 hours. So, in a nutshell, I can summarize the origin of truckercheckin.com.

Truck and container registration :

We are currently working on a system for assessing truck driver visits to locations. At the time of writing this article, you can comment on around 30,000 locations, mainly in the European Union but also in the Americas. To place reviews of your experience as a driver, log in to the site, then by clicking the magnifying glass icon in the upper right corner will open the "search for location" window, enter the name of the location you are looking for, e.g. Amazon Wrocław and press enter or click the magnifying glass icon.

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A good example of how evaluation and review of experience looks like is by clicking this link

https://truckercheckin.com/europa/16-francja/33499-roquette-lestrem

Currently, our visit experience evaluation and review system comprises the following criteria:

1) VISIT:

Loading
Unloading
Przepinka
Container retrieval
Container sentence

2) LOCATION

logistic center
warehouse
shop
sea terminal
railway terminal
container terminal
factory

3) VISIT TIME

Up to 30 min
Up to 60 min
Up to 2h
Up to 3h
Up to 5h

4) REGISTRATION TIME

up to 5 min
up to 15 min
up to 30 min
up to 45 min
up to 60 minutes

5) AMOUNT OF RAMP

0
1
from 2 to 5
from 6 to 10
from 11 to 50

6) PARKING BEFORE THE COMPANY

No
for 1 truck
for 2 to 5 truck
for 6 to 10 truck
for 11 to 20 truck

7) PAUSE PRESENT / IN THE COMPANY

45min
9h
11h
Can not
Mandate

8) VISION ON TIME

before advice
just in time
I waited for 1h
I waited until 3h
the next day

The following questions can be answered YES or NO: DRIVER'S WC, DRIVER'S SHOWER, DRIVER'S ROOM, RESTAURANT, COFFEE ACCESS. In addition, information useful for drivers is KEYS DURING A VISIT (always carry with you, hand in unloading, shower) and ENTRY DEPARTURE (same gate, different gate). The rating system comprises the following criteria: Loading, Unloading, Access from the main road, Access to the toilet, Advising on time, and Staff culture; for each of these criteria, we assign ratings from 1 to 5. You can also place photos (see photo below) that will be visible to other drivers.

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Photos can show how an access road, entry or exit gate looks, road signs for drivers, and photos of maps, forms, and information brochures. Experienced truck drivers value information about the geographical coordinates of the entrance gate. In my career so far, I personally had several addresses at which there was no entrance gate for trucks, only for passenger cars. I remember when in the industrial zone near Paris I had to get to the address stated in the CMR documents; it turned out that it was not an entry for vans; I had to go to ANOTHER ADDRESS. The entrance gate was located a kilometer from the passenger car gate, however, to reach it you had to go through a traffic jam, and the journey time to extend the customer by 30 minutes. After entering the address on google map there was no information about a separate gate for passenger cars and trucks. In large logistics and distribution centers there are various parking lots for entry and exit gates, often separated by a few kilometers. The truck driver needs access to location information at all times, not just when shipping.

Valid registration: cargo container; truck

We encourage all truck drivers to log in to truckercheckin.com and post reviews and assess the experience of visiting as a truck driver. Thanks to publishing your visit to the website, your colleague who goes to the address for the first time receives the information so that his work becomes more understandable and less stressful. You won't get first-hand information from your boss or forwarder, you'll find it at truckercheckin.com