Cox Automotive on Wednesday (August 5) launched Security Vehicle Transfer, a new digital tool that will help verify the correct carrier picks up the correct vehicle at the correct location.
Cox partnered with Central Dispatch for the pilot program that, for now, is available to select dealership pickup locations and carriers in the Ready Logistics network.
For context, the new tool is intended to help shippers and receivers trade phone calls, notebooks, pens, and pencils during the handoff verification process, closing gaps that bad actors know how to exploit, the companies said in a release.
How it works: The assigned driver receives a digital credential in the Central Dispatch Carrier app, the same app carriers already use for inspections and pickups.
Each credential is unique to a single VIN, an authorized carrier, and one pickup location. It can't be copied, forwarded, or captured by screenshot, and it's revoked automatically in real time if authorization changes.
Within five miles of the pickup location, the person releasing the vehicle scans the credential using the Secure Vehicle Transfer app, creating a documented record of the handoff.
The verification process takes about 90 seconds, from credential confirmation to vehicle release.
What they’re saying: "Today's transportation landscape requires new layers of verification, accountability and control at the moment a vehicle changes hands," Lainey Sibble, head of Central Dispatch, said in the release. "We're not waiting for someone else to set the standard for what comes next."
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Stay tuned: After the pilot, Secure Vehicle Transfer will go out to all shippers, carriers, and brokers in the Central Dispatch marketplace, including plans to eventually extend across Manheim's physical locations.
Central Dispatch said it plans to build on its earlier biometric identity verification debut by adding it to the point of vehicle release next.
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