In this episode of Get a Load of This podcast, Cameron Pechia, Owner of Valley Trucking Insurance, and Stacey Steen, Customer Experience Coordinator over at vHub discuss tools for asset owners to increase profits!
Cameron and Stacey go over the ability to get paid repositioning of trailers for brokers, carriers, and owner-operators. vHub allows folks to offer their trailers for rentals, reposition trailers, and have a platform to find trailers in all regions.
Episode Highlights:
Stacey shares that she has been working in the transportation sector for the last eight years and that she got her start in the business working for Ryder truck rental. (3:21)
Stacey discusses the one aspect of working in the transportation industry that really sticks out to her. (7:18)
Stacey explains the role that vHub plays in the marketplace as well as the distinctions between vHub 1.0 and vHub 2.0. (10:44)
Stacey discusses their current onboarding process and how they want to enhance it in the future. (16:47)
Stacey explains what vHub does for compliance to guarantee that the carriers picking up the trailers have the right insurance and protections in place, and shares what vHub Protect is. (21:00)
Stacey discusses some of the important takeaways from the latest vHub release, as well as what's in store for 2023. (27:25)
Stacey explains their platform's Load-out and Towaway features of vHub. (34:20)
Stacey shares that problem solving and addressing a need was the original motivation behind vHub. (35:36)
Stacey explains how she plans her goals as a highly driven and organized person. (39:05)
Key Quotes:
“vHub is really a tool to re-engineer flexible capacity solutions. So you know, offering rentals, load-outs, repositioning. That's what it's all about.” - Stacey Steen
“The way we're going to protect the user, regardless of what the asset owner or the renter is, we're going to have carrier validation in vHub 2.0…Carriers, or whoever it is, will have to upload their proof of insurance, and that will automate in our system.” - Stacey Steen
“I am organized, I like being organized. If I'm not organized, I feel just very out of tune. ” - Stacey Steen
Resources Mentioned:
Stacey Steen LinkedIn
vHub
Cameron Pechia
Thomas Comstock
Ryan Young
Valley Trucking Insurance