Background information about subcarrier management:
If you are contracted by one of your customers (main carrier) to execute a transport for another party, on Visibility Hub we call it 'being a subcarrier'.
In order to provide the end customer with real time visibility for the transports, it is crucial that :
your fleet is connected on Visibility Hub (via a connection to your telematics provider) (see how to do that here )
you 'enable' the visibility of a transport by 'allocating' a license plate to the transport (see how to do that here)
As Subcarrier you do not see the customer's transports automatically. The reason is that in many cases, main carriers do the 'allocation' of a license plate for their subcarriers. That is why we also give them the option to select your license plate during the allocation process for their customer's transports. This is what we call 'granting vehicles'.
What does this 'granting vehicle' function do ?
It gives the main carrier the possibility to allocate your license plates for you. However, this alone will not make your truck visible to the end customer. We detect when the truck of a particular transport drives to the loading place. Only then, will we switch real time visibility on and only during the duration of this specific transport.
What does the 'sharing vehicle location' function do ?
You can decide if the main carrier is allowed see your whole fleet or only some vehicles 24/7. For example, in order to figure out the next best transport to give to you.
You are free to choose if this functionality is valuable for your partnership.
Important : If you decide to share your vehicle positions with one of your partners or more, these locations will not be shared with anyone else. Shippers will continue to see vehicle locations only from loading to unloading point of a transport and only if a truck license plate has been allocated to it.
This functionality can easily be enabled in our vehicle management tool :
