Rivigo Launches Relay-as-a-Service (RaaS) For Fleet Owners And Truck Pilots
Rivigo, a technology-enabled logistics company, has launched Relay-as-a-Service (RaaS). With this, the company aims to bring benefits of its relay trucking model to millions of fleet owners and truck pilots in India. This service is based on Rivigo’s patented technological capability through which it has been operating relay for the past five years.
RaaS will be offered to fleet owners using its technology, pilots and countrywide network of relay pit-stops. Relay Trucking is an operating model where drivers change over after every few hundred kilometers of driving through a network of relay pit-stops and then get rostered back to their home base to return to their families every single day. It offers advantages over traditional trucking like air equivalent transit time, higher asset utilization, four times safer than industry and more importantly pilots return home every day.
Commenting on the launch Gazal Kalra, co-founder, Rivigo, said, “With RaaS, we aim to offer the benefits of relay trucking to millions of fleet owners in India and bring inefficiencies in the logistics industry while directly addressing one the biggest challenges of the chronic truck driver shortage. In addition to the relay network, technology, and pilots, we will be making our fuel, maintenance, cashless payment solutions also available to fleet owners in the country through RaaS. Rivigo’s mission is to make logistics in India humane, more efficient and offer better service. Offering Relay-as-a-Service to fleet owners in the country is a significant step in that direction.”
Mr. Ramratan Singhi, the owner of Sure Cargo Logistics, a fleet of 70 Bharat Benz trucks and who have signed up for the RaaS program, said, “We achieved 25-30% extra running per month per truck through RaaS, compared to using our resources. Hub-hub TAT was excellent, and the use of tech in all aspects of operations (fuel, maintenance) is helping us see the areas of concern in our trucks. It frees our management time and resources on getting more business while our trucks are operated by RIVIGO Relay pilots. ”
