Control and audit the transport contracted by your company.
Merus connects demand, routes, trips, boardings and billing to give visibility into carriers' operations and support contract review.
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Route inherited from the old contractWith Merus312 employees · 3 shifts · 14 stopsRoutes made of real people
Addresses, shifts and destinations become stops, route and schedules, not the other way around.
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44-seat bus with 12 on boardWith MerusVan 15 · 87% occupancy · −18% costCapacity to fit
Compare vehicles, capacity and configured cost before putting the operation on the road.
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Invoice paid without checkingWith MerusBilled 1,284 km · driven 1,206 kmBilling you can check
Planned, actual and invoice sit side by side, trip by trip.
Between what the company contracts and what happens on the road there is a gap that rarely shows up all at once. It builds up in five small tensions.
Instead of managing spreadsheets, trackers and invoices separately, Merus stitches everything into one trail that starts with the person boarding.
- Know before hiring. During the selection process, the distance from the candidate's home to the route shows whether they fit the route or the route needs to change.
- Start with who boards. Quantity, origin, destination, site and shift form the scenario's inputs.
- Draw the route before starting the engine. Merus calculates stops, route, schedules and service alternatives.
- Size it without waste. Vehicle capacity and costs let you compare scenarios before the operation.
- Monitor without interrupting. Trips, positions and boardings record the service delivered.
- Verify with memory, not impressions. Planned, actual and billing are linked for review.
The same trail, read by four areas of the company.
See Merus applied to your charter transport.
In a first 30-minute conversation, we organize the demand, the shifts and the rules of your contract.
Talk about corporate charter transportSix concrete gains, each coming from a platform capability.
With Merus, your company has:
- Routes that follow real peopleStops, schedules and vehicles calculated from addresses, shifts and sites, and redone when demand changes.
- Hiring knowing whether the transport serves themThe distance from home to the route shows up during the selection process, before day one.
- A fleet sized to real occupancyVehicles compared by capacity, fixed cost, cost per kilometer and labor.
- The contracted operation in plain sight, every dayIndividual trips, positions and boardings, with planned × actual, punctuality and incidents.
- Invoice checked before payingMileage, trips and contract rules side by side with the charges, trip by trip.
- Memory to audit and renegotiateRecords preserved by passenger, trip, vehicle and contract, with reports by area.
The questions of those who contract charter transport, answered by those who implement Merus.
- Diagnosis We map sites, shifts, employee addresses, the contract and the data the operation already has.
- Equipment We sell and install Merus telemetry, or integrate the tracker the carrier already uses.
- Data loading Our team registers employees, routes, fleet and contract rules together with your team.
- Validation We test routes, boardings and reports with the people who will use the platform every day.
- 100% functional We stay with you until everything runs with nothing pending. If the contract provides for it, the Merus team operates it for you.
Merus teamImplementation · online - Our fleet has no equipment at all. Where do we start?
- With Merus equipment: we sell the telemetry and handle installation in the vehicles. Loan and rental options are coming soon.
- The carrier already uses a tracker. Will we have to replace everything?
- Not necessarily. We have native integrations with the main telemetry hardware on the market. We assess what already exists and use it whenever possible.
- Our case is very specific.
- Then we design a tailored solution: new integrations, rules and flows on the same platform.
- Who registers employees, routes and the contract?
- Our team loads the data together with yours: employees, addresses, routes, fleet and contract rules.
- How long do you stay involved?
- Until the system is 100% functional in your operation.
- We don't have people to run the platform.
- According to the contract, the Merus team operates the platform for you: routing, monitoring and checking. The transport stays with the carrier.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What is charter management?
Corporate charter management is planning, monitoring and checking the transport a company contracts to take employees to work. Merus Tracker is software that brings together demand, routes, fleet, trips, boardings and contract in one place, so the company can monitor the carrier with its own data.
How do you audit the carrier?
Merus compares what was planned with what was executed on each trip: route, departure and arrival times, mileage and boardings. Delays, deviations and incomplete trips appear with their origin and history, without relying only on the carrier's report.
How do you check the charter invoice?
The recorded service sits side by side with the contract rules and the charges: planned and executed mileage, trips completed and incidents. Differences appear trip by trip, so the company can review them before paying. Approval and payment remain with the company.
How do you reduce charter costs?
With routes and a fleet sized to real demand. Merus shows the occupancy of each line and compares vehicles by capacity, fixed cost, cost per kilometer and labor, so the company can evaluate scenarios before changing the operation. Results depend on each contract and operation.
How do you build routes from addresses?
Routing starts from employees' addresses, shifts and sites. Merus calculates stops, route, schedules and service alternatives, and redoes the routes when demand changes, such as with new hires, address changes or shift changes.
Does HR know whether a candidate has a route?
Yes. During the selection process, HR checks the distance from the candidate's home to the existing routes and sees whether the transport serves them or the route needs to change, before hiring.
Can the employee see the bus schedule?
Yes, in enabled flows. The employee checks the line, schedules, nearest stop, map and the vehicle's expected arrival. Accuracy depends on the equipment, connectivity and project configuration.
Do I need to replace the trackers?
Not necessarily. Merus has native integrations with the main telemetry hardware and uses what the carrier already has when the technical assessment confirms it. If the fleet has no equipment, Merus sells telemetry with installation included; loan and rental options are coming soon.
How does implementation work?
In stages: operation diagnosis, equipment or integrations, data loading, validation with the people who will use it and support until the system is 100% functional. The Merus team loads employees, addresses, routes, fleet and contract rules together with the company's team.
Does Merus operate the system for us?
It can, according to the contract: the Merus team handles routing, monitoring and checking on the platform. The transport itself, with vehicles and drivers, stays with the contracted carrier.
