{"id":3868,"date":"2015-05-01T15:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2015-05-01T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:39:17","slug":"startups-aggregating-mini-trucks-in-indias-local-delivery-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/startups-aggregating-mini-trucks-in-indias-local-delivery-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups Aggregating Mini-trucks In India&#8217;s Local Delivery Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3870\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yourstory-LOTrucks-InsideArticle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3870\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3870\" alt=\"Some of the mini-trucks and owner-operators part of the LOTrucks.com network.\" src=\"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yourstory-LOTrucks-InsideArticle2.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yourstory-LOTrucks-InsideArticle2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yourstory-LOTrucks-InsideArticle2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yourstory-LOTrucks-InsideArticle2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the mini-trucks and owner-operators part of the LOTrucks.com network.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LOTrucks.com, an Indian startup, is using technology to aggregate the highly fragmented local delivery market in the country. Major cities such as Bangalore employ a hub and spoke delivery system where the last mile is handled by mini-trucks and other vehicles driven by owner-operators. The problem has been connecting the large number of owner-operators with potential clients in an efficient and cost-effective manner. LOTrucks joins similar companies such as??The Porter, Blowhorn and Shippr who are operating in Mumbai and Bangalore. LOT stands for Logistics, Optimization and Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the founders &#8220;When we noticed some important issues like large idle time of vehicles, no standard pricing, customer-driver communication gap and billing problems, we thought this can be addressed using technology.&#8221; LOT has reduced the time from order booking to processing to 30 minutes, implemented a standard mileage based pricing system to eliminate negotiating and trains drivers for communicating in the diverse city. An online payment system using a mobile is in the works. LOT currently has over 500 trucks including the??LOT MINI, aTata Ace with 800kg capacity, and the LOT MAX , a Tata 407 with 2.5ton capacity. The founders plan to perfect their system in Bangalore before expanding to other cities. ??<a title=\"Startups Aggregating Mini-trucks In India's Local Delivery Market\" href=\"http:\/\/yourstory.com\/2015\/04\/lotrucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more: Yourstory.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOTrucks.com, an Indian startup, is using technology to aggregate the highly fragmented local delivery market in the country. Major cities such as Bangalore employ a hub and spoke delivery system where the last mile is handled by mini-trucks and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/startups-aggregating-mini-trucks-in-indias-local-delivery-market\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,16,26,27],"tags":[1904,1906,1902,1903,1905,1270],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization","category-market-trends","category-mini-trucks","category-technology","category-utility-vehicles","tag-bangalore","tag-hub-and-spoke","tag-inida","tag-lotrucks","tag-shipping","tag-tata-ace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}