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Watch Tower · For owners and operations managers at refrigerated carriers
Watch Tower for cold-chain and reefer carriers
The goal: Deliver every temperature-controlled load at the agreed temperature, with the records to show it, and keep reefer units out of the shop.
Open the free demo A fictional company in your industry, opened in the Console. No card needed.
Four jobs we set up with you
Work trackerA work tracker for cold-chain and reefer carriersEvery action behind a goal as a card with an owner, a due date and the asset it touches.Read more Asset register and mapAn asset register and map for cold-chain and reefer carriersEvery site, vehicle and machine in one register, on one map of the United States.Read more Goals and KPIsGoals and KPIs for cold-chain and reefer carriers, with the assumptions written downThree to five goals, one KPI each, with the record, the period and the assumptions behind every number.Read more Weekly briefA weekly operations brief for cold-chain and reefer carriersGoals, KPIs with their assumptions, options with guardrails and a 30-day agenda, reviewed with you every week.Read more
Rules and facts for cold-chain and reefer carriers
- When a written contract makes the carrier responsible for sanitary conditions, the carrier must pre-cool each mechanically refrigerated cold storage compartment as specified by the shipper and, if the shipper or receiver asks, show that it kept the operating temperature the shipper specified during the trip.Source: 21 CFR 1.908(e), Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food
- A property-carrying driver may drive at most 11 hours, within a 14-hour window, after 10 consecutive hours off duty.Source: FMCSA, Summary of Hours of Service Regulations
Founding 10
$2,000 for setup and the first 3 months of Watch Tower, then $250/month. Ten places. We set up your team, goals and KPIs, asset register, map and work tracker with you, then review it with you every week.
Hardware implementation is quoted separately. Start with the demo; you can order from inside it.Open the free demoDoes Watch Tower read our reefer units directly?
Not today. It works from the temperature downloads and logs you already pull, and puts them next to your loads, units and goals.