Tag: smartphone apps

Voices

POLL: Is electronic mobile signature capture part of your protocol with receivers?

With the COVID-19 pandemic, signature-capture technologies on documents sent between devices have made their way more extensively into the operator-receiver interaction to limit personal contact. Do you have such a system in place yourself, whether a fleet’s system or your own?

November 29, 2020

Truck Stops

Continuing proliferation of self-serve mobile tech reducing in-person contact at truck stops

As the coronavirus continues proliferating, drivers and truck stop operators are minimizing contact with more tech-based innovations. Details here on Overdrive.

October 22, 2020

Business

News roundup, Oct. 7: New app from factoring company, Citgard now at Pilot Flying J, breast-cancer awareness from Diesel Laptops

The new FreightCheck app is designed to allow owner-operators to upload their load documents for invoicing and submit them for funding directly from their phone. PFJ is now selling Citgard 600 15W-40 and Citgard 700 Synthetic Blend 10W-30 lubricants.

October 7, 2019

Business

NAIT plans for one-stop-shop smartphone app

The National Association of Independent Truckers has been at work building out and refining for an expected September release a smartphone app through which truckers who are members can perform a variety of personal and business tasks.

August 26, 2019

Business

New carrier admin portal from Uber Freight

Uber Freight debuted a new web-booking portal designed to help dispatchers simplify workflow, and a new app interface built to provide a more intuitive experience for carriers and drivers.

August 20, 2019

Business

Find Truck Service locator, repair financier at GATS

The Find Truck Service app, a service locator for truck service and parts locators and whose credit card offers 6-month interest-free payback for any charged repair over $199, is making August specials available this week to attendees of GATS.

August 19, 2019

Business

App for that: Smartphone-distraction-avoidance assist

Need a distraction-avoidance assistant? The new Nextraq MobileBlock device and app locks smartphone and tablet apps, except for navigation and emergency calling, while you’re driving.

August 7, 2019

Business

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

Channel 19

Rebooting Riteload, take two: Last no-broker board standing?

Newly re-branded Riteload (from “MyRiteload”) might well be the one of the last platforms still pursuing that “elusive holy grail” of shipper-direct, brokerless matching we once wrote about. They’ve relaunched a website, changed plenty, and hired an executive with deep trucking experience.

July 23, 2019

Business

Roadsync payments platform at $100M milestone

RoadSync is a digital payment platform for the logistics industry, including trucking, allowing money to flow quickly and securely between freight handlers and owner-operators, trucking companies and truck repair shops, brokers and other combinations therein.

July 2, 2019

Business

Landstar’s new mobile app for contractors

Intended for use by owner-operators leased to the Jacksonville, Fla.-headquartered all-owner-operator fleet, the new LandstarOne mobile app offers contractors what the company intends as a kind of one-stop shop for business needs.

June 10, 2019

Business

Detention, parking, app overload: Hot-button issues for owner-ops explored in the context of tech’s sometime salve

Prasad Gollapalli, the founder and CEO of Trucker Tools, joined two owner-operators Thursday at MATS — Greenmiles small fleet owner-operator Shain Ferris and owner-operator Tamara Brock — for a lively discussion of these tough issues for owner-ops.

March 29, 2019