Overview

WheelsEye is a technology-led logistics marketplace that connects shippers with truck drivers across India. Often described as a marketplace built for operators, WheelsEye enables drivers to discover loads, manage trips, and monetize their fleet through a combination of GPS tracking, app subscriptions, and marketplace access.

On the supply side, WheelsEye works with a diverse operator base, classified into:

  • MFO: Multiple Fleet Owners
  • MVO: Multiple Vehicle Owners.
  • SFO: Single Fleet Owners
  • SVO: Single Vehicle Owners

For this engagement, the focus was on SFO and SVO operators, who form a high-volume but operationally complex segment of the marketplace.

The Challenge

Rate card collection is critical for the WheelsEye marketplace, as route-level pricing directly impacts shipper matching and marketplace margins. However, the existing human-led process faced several operational challenges.

  1. Incomplete Rate Sharing
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    Drivers typically shared only a single rate, often missing return pricing or vehicle-specific variations, resulting in incomplete rate cards.
  2. Driver Availability Constraints
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    Since most drivers are actively on the road, longer conversations often lead to drop-offs or incomplete responses, making it difficult for agents to capture structured rate information consistently.
  3. Complex Query Handling for Agents
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    Agents had to handle multiple variables such as route pricing, vehicle types, return routes, and custom routes, making knowledge base management during live calls challenging.
  4. High Seat Costs
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    The process relied on a dedicated telecalling team, creating higher operational costs and limited scalability.
  5. Low Rate Card Collection Success
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    The earlier workflow delivered less than 20% success rate, meaning most calls failed to capture usable rate cards.
  6. No CAC Visibility
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    The team lacked a clear benchmark for the cost per rate card collected, making optimization difficult.

The Solution

SquadStack deployed a voice-led AI workflow purpose-built for rate card collection from SFO and SVO operators.

What the system was designed to do

  • Engage drivers in natural, conversational Hindi and Hinglish
  • Collect route-specific, vehicle-specific pricing
  • Capture both ongoing and return rates
  • Adapt dynamically when drivers operated on non-standard or custom routes

How It Worked

  • The AI was trained on a dataset of 13,000 leads, each tagged with:
    • Route
    • Vehicle type
    • Vehicle number
  • The system prompted drivers intelligently instead of asking generic pricing questions
  • Drivers could specify rates for exact routes or define custom routes when applicable
  • Conversations were optimized for brevity without compromising data quality

This approach replaced rigid scripts with structured, outcome-driven conversations.

The Impact

The AI-led workflow delivered a significant improvement in efficiency, cost, and conversion, outperforming the earlier human-led process across key operational metrics.

Key Outcomes

  • Lower CAC for Rate Card Collection
    AI enabled a highly cost-efficient rate card collection workflow, achieving significantly lower customer acquisition cost per rate card shared, bringing predictable unit economics to the process.
  • 87% Higher Rate Card Collection Success
    The success rate of collecting usable rate cards improved dramatically, with conversion increasing by ~87% compared to the earlier process.
  • 40% Reduction in Average Handling Time
    AI-led conversations reduced the time required to collect pricing information, resulting in a ~40% decrease in average handling time, allowing more drivers to be reached in less time.
  • High and Consistent Connectivity
    The system maintained ~85% connectivity, ensuring reliable engagement with truck drivers despite their on-road availability constraints.
Chart comparing AI-led and human-led rate card collection for WheelsEye on success rate, average handling time, connectivity and cost per rate card

The takeaway is clear: AI didn’t just reduce cost, it made rate collection predictable and scalable.