Atlan Truck loading-tip database tops 98,000 entries

This year's 53,149 registrations already exceed three-year cumulative total

Access routes lead at 41.3%; waiting times follow

[Provided by Mappers]
[Provided by Mappers]

As freight volumes surge ahead of the chuseok holiday, the most widely shared on-site information among truck drivers navigating logistics centers and factories is access routes and entry paths. Narrow driveways, whether reverse entry is required, and gate locations — details that maps alone cannot convey — have an outsized effect on actual driving efficiency.

Mappers, a digital-map software company, said Thursday that an analysis of roughly 98,000 loading-and-unloading tips accumulated in its truck-dedicated navigation app Atlan Truck found that access-route and entry-path information accounted for the largest share of entries, at 41.3 percent of the total.

The loading-and-unloading tip feature lets freight drivers register and share on-site details about a destination — including access routes, entrances, waiting times, and the exact loading or unloading spot. It is designed to let drivers check conditions at logistics centers, factories, and warehouses they have never visited before, cutting unnecessary detours and idle time.

The active tip database currently holds about 98,000 entries covering more than 55,000 logistics centers, factories, warehouses, and retail facilities nationwide. Registration has accelerated sharply this year: the 53,149 tips logged from January through early September already exceed the 44,930 entries accumulated over the three full years from 2023 through 2025.

After access routes and entry paths, the next most frequently shared categories were waiting and turnaround times, loading and unloading locations and methods, and parking and staging areas. Drivers most commonly looked up driveway width and gradient, whether reverse entry was needed, and the locations of main and rear gates.

Information that directly affects efficiency after arrival — including how long loading and unloading takes, queue conditions, the exact work location, and parking availability — also accounted for a significant share of tips.

Tip activity picks up further in the days before major holidays. In the week of weekdays immediately before last year's chuseok, daily average tip registrations ran 16 percent higher than on ordinary weekdays.

Tip views are concentrated in the morning hours when freight work gets underway in earnest. Views between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. accounted for 29 percent of the day's total, with 9 a.m. recording the single busiest hour. Tuesday through Thursday were the most active days of the week.

By region, Gyeonggi Province — home to large clusters of logistics facilities and industrial complexes — generated the most tip registrations. In Hwaseong, access-route and parking information was shared most often; in Icheon, location corrections and navigation-guidance fixes dominated. Pyeongtaek and Changwon saw a higher proportion of tips on receiving hours and documentation procedures.

The type of information sought also varied by vehicle size. Drivers of large trucks checked access, turning, and parking tips more frequently, while drivers of smaller trucks tended to look up on-site details for apartment complexes, retail stores, and small businesses.

With deliveries of gift sets, fresh food, and everyday goods set to intensify ahead of chuseok, demand for on-site tips among drivers making multiple stops is expected to rise further.

"The roughly 98,000 data points confirm that on-site details like access routes and waiting times — things a map simply cannot tell you — matter enormously to freight drivers," said Kim Myung-jun, chief executive of Mappers. "The more field experience accumulates, the fewer wrong turns drivers make even at a destination they have never visited. We will keep refining the loading-and-unloading tip feature accordingly."


eyre@heraldcorp.com