Relay Payments expands into service and repair and more

00:00 In this week’s CCJ Tech Shorts, we’ll take a look at a new dash camera, a payments provider’s expansion into service and repair, a new platform for contract pricing and more.

00:22 Video telematics provider Lytx has rolled out a new dash camera.

The Lytx Surfsight AI-14 dash cam features the next generation of Lytx’s machine vision and artificial intelligence technology, offering greater risk detection, durability, intelligence, global coverage, and versatile privacy controls to meet the evolving needs of fleets and ecosystem partners.

The Surfsight dash camera provides:

• Proactive risk detection via on-board machine vision and AI technology that proactively identifies and detects driving risk at the edge.

• Real-time visual and audio in-cab alerts to help keep drivers attentive and focused, promoting safer road habits.

• An integrated touchscreen

• Configurable audio recording, enabling the capture of sound inside and outside the vehicle.

• Road-facing advanced driver assistance systems features, including following distance, critical distance, and rolling stop.

• Passenger limit, which notifies fleets when cabin occupancy exceeds the defined threshold and captures valuable data to support investigations, enforce policy and recover assets.  

• A tamper-resistant design, built to deter unauthorized removal, vandalism, and theft for added security and reliability.

• Event tagging with convenient record buttons that let drivers mark key events, simplifying video review and retrieval.

• And over-the-air firmware updates to ensure the device stays current, eliminating the need for manual downloads.

Pedestrian detection and redlight detection will be added soon.

01:51 Relay Payments, a digital payments provider in the trucking and logistics industries, has broadened its offerings to cover another essential category of over-the-road expenses.

Through new partnerships with Southern Tire Mart at Pilot, Boss Truck Shops, and AMBEST Service Centers, Relay customers can now pay with Relay at service and repair locations across the U.S. This expansion allows fleets and drivers to leverage Relay’s platform for not only fuel, lumpers, and scales, but also for essential service, repair, tow, and preventative maintenance.

Drivers can easily locate service centers along their routes using the Relay mobile app.

Relay’s co-founder and CEO (Ryan Droege) said, “Launching service, maintenance and repairs is a major milestone towards our mission of becoming an end-to-end payment network for the trucking industry. By introducing acceptance of Relay at service locations, along with discounted repairs, we’re not only lowering operating costs for our customers but also creating greater efficiencies by consolidating all over-the-road expenses in one platform.”

02:53 Freight tech provider Transfix has launched its RFP Workflow Tool, a platform designed to streamline contract pricing for freight brokers.

Brokers managing high-volume RFPs face relentless challenges, including manual pricing that takes hours, days, and sometimes weeks to analyze historical data and market rates; lack of centralized tracking, resulting in an inability to have reporting and insights; and unpredictable margins that make it impossible to forecast long-term success.

The RFP Workflow Tool tackles those challenges with its proprietary AI models that continuously analyze millions of data points.

Its Contract Rate Predictor ensures precision pricing tailored to your network based on company-specific historical performance. It provides Data Quality Analysis & Consulting, identifying data issues, explaining their impact, and guiding customers to resolve them, leading to cleaner data, sharper insights and stronger cost predictions. It also offers Dynamic Forecasting that predicts future costs with accuracy using an aggregated market rate as a baseline.

Its Automated Pricing & Error Detection feature proactively flags issues before submission to reduce costly mistakes. Its Bulk RFP Processing handles tens of thousands of lanes in a single CSV upload with automated validation and processing. And its Margin Forecasting tracks projected profitability across contract periods or per load.

04:18 Samsara has combined its solutions with Element Fleet Management.

Through this expanded partnership, Element clients in Canada and the United States gain access to Samsara’s open platform, delivering real-time, data-driven insights across their physical and digital operations. By aligning Element’s lifecycle fleet management expertise with Samsara’s connected operations technology, fleet administrators benefit from a unified offering that manages the full lifecycle of assets.

Fleet managers, compliance officers, IT leaders, and others can access a number of benefits including:

• Improved safety and risk management through AI-powered incident detection and real-time coaching, along with integrated compliance tracking

• Increased uptime with predictive maintenance and streamlined service planning

• Enhanced transparency enabled by unified reporting across vehicles, equipment assets, and workflows

• Sustainability insights supporting electrification readiness, emissions tracking, and fleet optimization

• Unified client experience through integrated procurement, onboarding, and advisory services 

• And access to comprehensive, real-time operational and cost-saving strategies that are ready for deployment in response to evolving macroenvironment business challenges