Overview
Grupo Vidal is a Portuguese road freight carrier that needed to replace an ageing transport management system without disrupting ongoing operations. The concern shared by most carriers in the same position is the same: migrations are expensive, slow, and risky.
Rui Vidal, Proprietor of Grupo Vidal, describes how it played out:
"We didn't need a dedicated team to migrate from old systems to this new one. The ready-to-use Meight API integration made everything much easier; within two weeks, the systems were fully operational."
The migration challenge
Legacy TMS migrations typically involve months of data mapping, custom integrations, and staff retraining. Grupo Vidal's previous system held years of customer data, rate cards, and operational history — all of which needed to transfer cleanly before drivers and planners could work from the new platform.
How Meight simplified it
Meight's API-first architecture meant that Grupo Vidal could connect its existing data sources directly, rather than relying on manual data exports and imports. Key steps in the two-week process:
- Customer and vehicle records imported via the Meight API
- Rate structures mapped and verified against historical invoices
- Drivers onboarded to the mobile app with a single SMS invite
- Dispatch went live with planners using Meight from day one
No bespoke integration work was required on Grupo Vidal's side. The configuration tooling inside Meight handled the mapping.
Result
Full operational switchover in fourteen days. No dedicated project team. Grupo Vidal's operations team handled the migration alongside their day-to-day work, and drivers were loading jobs into the app within the first week of onboarding.