ISAAC HORIZON – a dual success in 2024
Our User Conference this year was a roaring dual success. It featured our first-ever trucking technology conference in the heart of the US in Dallas, Texas, alongside the French version at our HQ in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec. In this article, we bring you the top five ISAAC HORIZON 2024 highlights.
1. ISAAC’s Safety & Compliance Playbook : a concrete how-to for carriers
A kind of recipe book, a collection of cheat sheets, a reference guide… ISAAC’s Safety & Compliance Playbook is all these things. It was designed by ISAAC’s experts to help our clients fully leverage the ISAAC Platform in addressing their challenges as carriers. Not sure how to reduce unsafe driving behaviors? Flip to page 6 to learn why you should address them, which ISAAC tools to use, and what to do specifically.
This Safety & Compliance playbook covers everything clients need to quickly deal with challenges, from driver fatigue to speeding, vehicle maintenance and more.
2. Professional Services: more bang for your buck
Fun fact: none of ISAAC’s clients use all of the ISAAC features available to them for optimizing their operations. Starting now, they can call on our Professional Services team to analyze their fleet’s challenges and opportunities and deliver tailored, efficient solutions.
This team of experienced ISAAC experts with deep trucking expertise knows how to approach a problem from all angles—not just the technological side.
Another fun fact: fleets with an average size of 250 trucks that increase their ISAAC Coach scores from 75% to 90% across their fleet can achieve average yearly fuel savings of $800,000. That’s entirely feasible with the right deployment of our platform!
3. ISAAC Analytics: empowering fleets like never before
ISAAC Analytics is a new fleet analytics tool within the ISAAC platform that empowers ISAAC’s clients to make strategic decisions based on data—not gut feelings.
With Business Intelligence (BI) empowered by AI, ISAAC Analytics keeps you on top of operational costs, fuel efficiency, asset utilization, and safety and compliance statistics. It provides 360° insights and easy-to-use dashboards that visually explain the data, helping fleets act on emerging trends quickly thanks to actionable fleet management insights.
Data metrics include ISAAC Coach scores, miles-per-gallon, and asset utilization, as well as engine idling, hours-of-service violations and critical events like hard braking. Clients can review two years of data to focus on year-over-year and month-over-month trends, and they can view results by terminal, driver, or driver manager.
Read more about ISAAC Analytics in our whitepaper.
4. ISAAC’s 2024 innovations and 2025 roadmap
In 2024, we introduced many valuable features to help carriers run safer, more efficient operations. For ISAAC users who missed these due to busy daily operations, the recap at the conference is a perfect way to get caught up!
We also shared what’s on our 2025 roadmap with our clients. That presentation has the audience wide-eyed every year, as users discover what they can look forward to in the year ahead. That’s all we’re saying about the 2025 roadmap in this article, as only conference participants are in the loop. 😉 Let’s just say, exciting things are ahead!
2024’s innovations are public news, so here’s a peek at some of the latest benefits ISAAC users are enjoying.
Safety & Compliance
- ISAAC’s latest on-board camera series that covers every angle, leaving practically no bind spots
- Extraction of longer videos and real-time diagnostics for ISAAC InView cameras to ensure cameras are always up and running
- Improved management of unassigned driving time to help managers quickly identify and resolve these segments for better compliance
Driver Experience
- The new ISAAC Scan: better image quality, and driver-friendly features such as automatic document detection and blurry image warnings to help drivers perform quality scans on the first take, reducing back-and-forths with the office
- ISAAC’s new M Series tablet dock featuring an optional plug-in speaker that helps drivers hear tablet messages loud and clear in a noisy truck
- Clearer, easy-to-read instructions to drivers on their tablet, thanks to added styling features for dispatchers to use
Operational Efficiency
- The just-released ISAAC Analytics, which uses BI and AI combined to boost our clients’ decision-making power like never before
- Enhanced licensing management for integrated systems like CoPilot, Drivewyze, and SpeedGauge
ISAAC’s Open Platform
- Over a dozen new API options to support seamless and efficient system integration
- New trailer-tracking partners for system integration, to help fleet managers track their assets directly from the ISAAC InRealTime portal
5. Engaging roundtables, panels, and workshops
Clients had the chance to roll up their sleeves with ISAAC experts and their peers and tackle top-of-mind challenges in friendly discussions and expert panels. Here’s a glimpse of that buzzing activity.
- Peer-to-peer roundtables, namely the Safety & Compliance roundtable led by Mélanie Simard, our VP of Safety & Compliance & Technical Support, was very popular. The hot topic of this year: unassigned driving management.
- Our trucking expert panel on the top industry issues and economic outlook, featuring Rebecca Brewster (ATRI) and Bob Costello (ATA) was a highlight as usual. During this panel, they shared the latest trucking research and economic data.
- A panel featuring real-world results from early ISAAC Analytics users had the audience paying very close attention. The fleets sharing their experience were Challenger Motor Freight and Tucker Freight Lines at the Dallas conference, and Molson Coors and Groupe Guilbault at the conference in Quebec.
“The biggest benefit I see from this platform [ISAAC Analytics] is the consolidation of the rich data ISAAC has. ISAAC Analytics transforms and cleanses all of the data points and puts it into a one-stop shop. That alone is super powerful.”
Matthew Campbell, Manager of Transformational Excellence & Analytics, Challenger Motor Freight
- Our Safety & Compliance expert panel is always a treat for conference participants, as peers share their field experience and the concrete solutions they find for the challenges they face. Kriska Holdings, Leonard Express and Quality Carriers were our guests at the Dallas event, and Groupe Loyal Express and Groupe Nadeau took the stage at the Quebec event.
“We work hard to coach our drivers with the ISAAC information. Their data integrity is high, and we’re able to use harsh braking and speeding information. We can coach our drivers in a timelier manner because we have notifications right away when someone is speeding or has an hours-of-service violation.”
Katie Griffin, Director of Fleet Safety, Leonard’s Express
- Our workshops offered practical tools and tips on subjects like overcoming driver resistance, using the ISAAC Coach Safety Report for in-cab coaching, and exploring ISAAC Analytics dashboards. Attendees left with actionable insights to maximize their tools and improve operations back at work.
Over the two days of peer-to-peer roundtables, expert panels, and workshops, attendees had many opportunities to connect, ask questions, and find creative solutions to their most pressing problems.
ISAAC HORIZON – a must for forward-thinking fleets
And these are the ISAAC HORIZON 2024 takeaways in a nutshell! Of course, we didn’t mention the moments of laughter and connection, the countless hallway conversations, and the vibrant atmosphere in both Dallas and at our Quebec headquarters this year.
ISAAC HORIZON is a must for ISAAC clients who want to stay ahead of the curve with trucking industry innovations and connect with like-minded professionals. All leave with a truckload of actionable insights for their fleet.
Want to join us? Become an ISAAC client, and then stay updated on registration for ISAAC HORIZON 2025!
