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Verizon Connect adds navigation option
As of last Friday, customers with subscriptions to the Verizon Connect Reveal ELD and fleet management system can add-on a navigation service developed by the company, the Navigation mobile app.
July 29, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
DriveELD adds in-app nav, fleet version
The DriveELD is out with some new functionality that come with mid- and higher-level tiers of subscription to its electronic logging device service.
July 25, 2019
Business
Rand McNally releases updated Motor Carriers’ Road Atlas
The new edition of the atlas is available in paperback, paperback with spiral binding and laminated pages, and spiral-bound, laminated paperback with larger print.
June 21, 2019
Channel 19
Over-reliance on GPS leads to ….
We’ve all heard the stories of trucks stuck on pedestrian bridges, old covered bridges, cowpaths, logging roads to nowhere … but a British author recently threw down a new marker for where humanity’s over-reliance on turn-by-turn navigation might be leading. There’s good news for most truckers, too …
June 6, 2019
Voices
POLL: How much do you rely on GPS navigation in routing?
Do you utilize programs/units with truck-specific or non-truck-specific routing as a principal source for on-highway navigation? Or is it just a supplemental tool to maps and your own route knowledge?
May 29, 2019
Channel 19
Turn-by-turn navigation added to ‘Road Hunter’ trip planner app
The 'Road Hunter' application has added a new feature in the turn by turn navigation. Learn more about the new feature in the application here on Overdrive.
February 13, 2019
Business
Rand McNally releases 2019 Motor Carriers’ Road Atlas
The new edition of the atlas is available in paperback; paperback with spiral binding and laminated pages; and spiral-bound, laminated paperback with larger print.
June 25, 2018
Business
Trucker Path acquisition by global company Renren to bring navigation, more to the trip-planning app
Meet Renren CEO Joseph Chen, who drove truck for a time as a young man and says the Trucker Path acquisition is intended to take the app and its affiliated services “to the next level,” Chen says. “I think that the next 20 years will be most exciting for the trucking industry globally as we gradually get more technology into the industry.”
January 12, 2018
Channel 19
‘It just keeps happening in the Notch’: Truckers, beware Vermont route 108
The notorious Smuggler’s Notch route continues to snare tractor-trailers blindly following GPS despite recent 20x fine increases — says a reader familiar withthe area: “Any large vehicle” attempting the route, “especially any tractor trailer, is doomed.”
October 30, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Magellan ELD self-certified, built in partnership with Samsung
The Magellan/Samsung partnership offers a way to separate work and play on the tablet on which it’s built, Samsung’s marquee Tab-E. BYOD options to run Magellan’s ELD/nav software on select Samsung phones and tablets also exist.
August 25, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
New Garmin commercial nav unit interoperable with Garmin ELD
Break planning and dispatch tools are enabled by the connection, with Garmin’s commercial-nav features enhanced. The new Dezl 580 LMT-S is being introduced with a suggested retail of $299.99.
August 24, 2017
Business
Rand McNally’s annual truckers’ road atlas released
Some features in the atlas include a 22-page mileage directory with more than 40,000 truck-specific, city-to-city mileages; charts with state and provincial permit agency phone numbers and websites, low clearances, weigh stations and more.
June 8, 2017
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