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News roundup, Dec. 26: 75-truck fleet closed doors ahead of Christmas, new connected Dashcam launched, load-tracking proliferation and preference explored
Ohio-based 75-truck fleet GDS Express closed shop last week. NexTraq launches new forward-facing in-cab HD video camera system, in-cab views optional. And: A tracking provider asks, What’s your preferred tracking method, when it comes to technology.
December 26, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
AOBRD-to-ELD: Tech providers on data handling, hours changes, improving core and ancillary functionality
“Nobody’s in a race to be regulated,” noted Pedigree Technologies CEO Wade Wilson, speaking with three other ELD providers in August on the subject of the AOBRD-to-ELD shift. While there’s certainly general antipathy among truckers to the mandate, a variety of business cases can be made for telematics technology.
October 10, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
More ELD data hopes and hazards: Load matching efficiency improvements
A variety of players, including some ELD providers, are executing plans to use ELD hours data as a way to help put load offers in front of carriers that have drivers who not only are close to the load but also have sufficient on-duty hours.
June 25, 2019
Business
Gorilla Safety ELD integrates tracking tech
ELD provider Gorilla Safety has integrated the Project44 tracking platform for shippers and brokers to allow Gorilla Safety’s customers to meet increasing load-tracking demand.
June 19, 2019
Voices
Half of readers object to a miles-traveled tax as fuel-tax replacement
Part of the picture complicating the very notion of replacing the fuel tax is the slow but steady overlay of toll roads on top of the current system, which so many view as tantamount to double taxation. About a third of readers, however, voiced some support for an equitable miles-traveled system.
May 9, 2019
Business
Blockchain-ready tracking platform launches
The leaders of freight and logistics company ShipChain are formally launching their blockchain-based Track and Trace platform. The launch follows the successful completion of a pilot program with Perdue Farms.
January 31, 2019
Business
NavigatorTMS and FreightTracer aim to ease burdens of operations/customer management for independents
Mark Eichinger pitches his company’s FreightTracer track-and-trace product and NavigatorTMS as small-fleet/independent-owner-op solutions to help compete on a level playing field “with the larger organizations” when it comes to technology and what they can offer prospective customers.
January 25, 2019
Business
Schneider brokerage adopts Trucker Tools
Schneider Transportation Management has selected Trucker Tools’ carrier management and shipment tracking software services to support the brokerage’s growing network of carriers and other operations.
January 23, 2019
Business
Simplified tracking for small brokers and owner-ops
Small broker Ana Vetter also runs the one truck in Condor Cargo’s carrier operation, owned by her and her brother Eric Guerra. Using the FreightPrint tracking service, she says, “You’re not really getting into the driver’s business. Once the load is delivered, it ends right there.”
December 10, 2018
Business
For small fleets, tracking can be ELD fringe benefit
“I hate the ELD, I hate that it’s mandated,” says small-fleet owner-operator Rob Hallahan, but I “like the utilities that come with it,” including location tracking and sharing.
December 6, 2018
Business
Covering your tracks: The brave new world of ‘freight visibility’
As load tracking systems have proliferated and evolved, angst over their intrusion, as well as opportunities for owner-operators to benefit from them, have been on the rise.
December 4, 2018
Channel 19
Tracknstop company enables remote truck stopping in the event of theft or malicious use
The Tracknstop device helps combat cargo theft by cutting off the fuel supply to the engine, effectively, bringing the truck to a stop.
June 11, 2018
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