WABCO Fleet Solutions supports TIP Trailer Services

WABCO, the world’s leading supplier of brake control systems and other advanced technologies for improving the safety, efficiency and connectivity of commercial vehicles, and TIP Trailer Services, one of Europe’s leading equipment service providers, have announced the launch of their innovative collaboration. By networking the fleet, TIP’s digitization strategy is to be implemented.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, TIP operates a fleet of 70,000 trailers available to customers in the transportation and logistics industry for full-service leasing and rental in 16 European countries and Canada. Customer-specific maintenance contracts and other additional service agreements ensure that TIP’s customers and their goods continue to move throughout Europe and Canada.

The agreement with WABCO includes equipping TIP trailers with advanced telematics and digital fleet management systems. These offer the best solutions for the different trailer types of TIP. This includes not only track-and-trace capabilities, but also advanced remote diagnostics capabilities of trailers and safety features such as tire pressure monitoring and cold chain management that are leaner,

“With our full-service contracts, we offer the highest level of safety and efficiency for our trailers on the road. These include service planning, maintenance, replacement of wear parts, and uptime management, “says Bob Fast, CEO of TIP Trailer Services. “By linking our fleet to Telematics, IoT and Connected Services through WABCO’s entire offering, we have the opportunity to implement a fleet-wide platform suitable for all our assets and brands. This will enable new data and analytics services that will further increase our value for fleets, “adds Fast.

“WABCO is pleased to partner with TIP, which is helping to bolster TIP’s success through improved asset management and digital transformation,” said Peter Bal, WABCO’s Business Leader Fleet Solutions EMEA TIP’s new, advanced connectivity capabilities will bring new opportunities for growth and innovation, and by sharing our technology and business expertise, resources and data analysis capabilities, WABCO and TIP will jointly develop an innovation roadmap for building world-class, fleet-centric and big data Bal “, concludes Bal