Tag: routing

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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
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Business
Rand McNally launches its next generation of the TND GPS and multifunction tablet
The TND 740 is a seven-inch tablet that “takes some of the good things from [the 730] and adds a lightning-quick, redesigned quadcore processor, along with double the storage [16 gigabytes] and double the memory” [1 GB], the company notes, also debuting a new partnership with Progressive insurance to offset customer ELD costs with data-sharing/$500 in rebates.
March 23, 2017
The new Rand McNally TND 740 features a seven-inch display and a magnetic mount that enables quick and easy, wireless disconnection from the mount for handheld use.
Business
PC-Miler with hours manager
ALK Technologies introduction of the hours manager into PC-Miler software allows for better small fleet back-office planning around required breaks, among top problems with the hours of service recently identified by Overdrive readers.
June 30, 2015
Business
Drivewyze, ALK combine mapping and bypass tech for app
Drivewyze and ALK Technologies announced this week a collaboration in which it is integrating key functions of the two individual services into one app, called CoPilot Truck, available on both iOS and Android platforms.
August 15, 2014
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Business
PC*Miler software update
Version 28 includes new tools and enhanced functionality geared around the need for greater customization, providing the safest, most effective routing for each customer’s specific business needs.
June 27, 2014
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Voices
Hours restart looming July 1
Could the July 1 hours changes be much ado about nothing? Many Overdrive readers say so — but for some drivers with little control over weekly scheduling routinely maximizing driving hours, the change may bust the bottom line.
May 19, 2013
In recent polling on the hours change, drivers were clearly worried about new limits on the 34-hour restart, a provision originally codified during the 2003 changes to drivers’ hours of service. Todd McCann, writing on his AboutTruckDriving.com blog in April, detailed the recent examples of three successive weekends, two of whose outcomes would not have been possible under the new restart restrictions.
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Magellan GPS packs tons of functions into easy-to-use unit
Editor tests Magellan commercial truck GPS unit. Finds its ease of use to be among top features.
December 18, 2012
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