b'TICKETING SOFTWAREE-ticketing software keeps all stakeholders informed of theWhether mateirals are being taken to a plant or jobsite, progress of a materials shipment at all timese-ticketing minimizes the need for repeat inputting Alkon: The tracking and information sharingthe final destination for the materials can behandle all that the industry needs in regard to featuresofe-ticketingsoftwarekeepallsent an electronic copy of the ticket, thuscreating an effective and efficient process for parties in a project informed on the progresseliminatingtheneedforrepeatinputande-ticketing and materials transportation. In of the shipment through to payments andminimizingerrors. my opinion, AI is going to play a significant other accounting steps. For example, whenfuture role in this process. AI will be used a hauler leaves a quarry with a shipment ofFUTURE to improve the technology in areas like risk aggregate, his ticket has already been sent toAs compliance and regulations that impactassessment and optimizing processes.him electronically; his truck is being trackedconstructionmaterialstransportation by GPS; and the jobsite or plant is notified[progress], the need for software that willThe bottom line is that e-ticketing software the shipment is on the way. effectively and strategically handle this processisbecomingthebaselineforbusinessesin has become mission critical for quarries andconstruction materials transportation, which LEAD-UP plants in the business, says Bhalla. Thereincludes members of OSSGA. It is only the Hoagland adds that in the past, haulers wouldisnoquestionthatthepandemicmovedstart of the journey, and companies in this arrive at the materials site, leave their truck tothe needle forward on the importance ofindustry need to get on the train before it verify who they are with the scale operator,materials transportation software. To say itleaves the station. and receive in many cases a coloured piecesimply, Pandoras box has been opened and of paper denoting the material and load tothe industry needs to embrace this technologyItsallaboutdigitizingthelogisticsof be picked up. The trucker then enters theas part of its future. construction materials to simplify the buying, loadingarea,andoncethematerialsare loaded into the truck and its weight verified,AccordingtoHoagland,Thesoftwaremovingandsellingprocesses.Thisisthe the trucker is given a paper ticket and headstechnologyishere,andautomationcandirection the industry is moving. Areyou?for the destination of the material. TheCOVID-19pandemicstarted changing this process, with the introduction of government-mandated health and safetyExtend tire life & measurestoeliminateasmuchhuman contactaspossible.Someinterimsteps,maximize uptime like remote printer boxes that would printwith onsite tire the ticket for the trucker, were successfully institutedduringthepandemic,butservice.ultimately, the e-ticketing software approach became the solution looking into the future.Throughput of data, haulers not havingCertified technicians and a toleavetheirvehicles,knowingwhataspecialized mobile service truckiscomingforbeforeitarrivesandfleet with 70 years of abettersystemtopreventoverloadingcommercial experience.orunderloadingareimportantfeatures ofthesoftware,saysHoagland.TheEXPERTISE THATKEEPS YOU ROLLINGticketingprocessisprobablyoneofthe constructionprocessesthatfitsperfectly into an automated approach. Whether theCommercial.KalTire.com materials are being taken to a plant or jobsite, FALL 2023AVENUES 31'