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Volvo, Mack partner with Omnitracs to develop future fleet management services

Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks today entered into a memorandum of understanding with Omnitracs, provider of fleet management, routing and predictive analytics systems, to develop future fleet management services for carriers. The agreement allows the leveraging of Volvo’s Remote Diagnostics and Mack’s GuardDog telematics-based proactive diagnostic and repair planning systems.

August 17, 2015

CCJ joins with CNBC, Avondale Partners to discuss trucking’s top challenges

Managing fleets’ three biggest costs – drivers, fuel and equipment – is an ongoing challenge, even for the nation’s most successful carriers. Hear how to tackle all three at CCJ’s Market Movers this month.

August 17, 2015

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The new Volvo Trucks configurator

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The new Volvo VNL’s features and trim levels are available to examine interactively. Volvo Trucks has developed a new state-of-the-art online configurator exclusively for VNL models. The configurator provides detailed information on the features and benefits of each trim level and cab option, as well as a 360-degree view of the truck inside and out.

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A fast and furious future for trucking

At the end of this month, we’ll be in Dallas ahead of the Great American Trucking Show at CV-Outlook. Usually, industry conferences cover a huge swath of issues, but this one will be different: The encompassing theme of CV-Outlook this year is simply the future. Specifically, the future of trucking.

August 14, 2015

Worldwide shifts in freight patterns, combined with infrastructure changes like smart highways, connected vehicles and super bridges, will make trucking a truly globalized industry. Learn more about what the trucking industry could look like in the coming decades — and how your fleet can adapt — at the CV-Outlook conference later this month.

TivaCloud launches compliance management software, for fleets of all sizes

TivaCloud, based in Houston, announced a new cloud-based compliance software system designed for motor carriers of all sizes.

August 14, 2015

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American Central Transport increases pay for drivers that use event recorders

As part of a new pay package, American Central Transport is encouraging its owner-operators to use event recorders.

August 13, 2015

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The connected vehicle: work together or go at it alone?

Equipment manufacturers have a vision for the connected vehicle. And so do telematics providers. Both want to use technology to make vehicles safer, more efficient and productive.

August 12, 2015

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Celadon extends contract with Omnitracs for trailer tracking

Celadon has extended its contract for Omnitracs’ TT210 trailer tracking technology by three years. The company first implemented the technology in 2005.

August 11, 2015

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Stay Metrics aims to reduce early driver turnover with new research, predictive tools

Stay Metrics, providers of a driver engagement and research platform, has a new set of products that give fleets deeper insights into why their drivers are leaving.

August 11, 2015

In this real-life example, Stay Metrics used its predictive turnover model to find a unique “predictive index” for one fleet (in green). The index shows the likelihood that drivers will leave based on responses to certain questions in Stay Metrics’ annual driver satisfaction survey (shown on x-axis). Drivers responded to questions using a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest level of satisfaction. The red line shows what happens when the carrier’s predictive index was applied to other Stay Metrics clients: nothing stands out. This shows that each fleet has unique predictors for turnover.

AT&T creates Workforce Manager platform for businesses with mobile workers

AT&T announced a new mobile platform called Workforce Manager designed to give business customers support for wide-range of mobile devices and management tools through a cloud-based portal. The new platform allows companies of any size or industry to build a custom, scalable and flexible management system for their business operations using available modules that include timekeeping, mobile forms, work […]

August 10, 2015

Telematics in the driver’s seat of connected vehicles

As busy as OEMs are with connected vehicle technology, telematics companies carry an equally heavy load. They are building engines of a different kind to power big data analytics.

August 7, 2015

Reshaping the dry van: New laws, new tech and pressure from fleets guiding trailers’ future

While it’s easy to dismiss a dry van as simply a “box on wheels,” the reality of trailer design is a never-ending series of compromises between cargo space and unit weight. Here’s what savvy fleet managers should know about how the dry van’s being reshaped.

August 7, 2015

Charles Fetz, vice president of design and development for Great Dane Trailers, doesn’t believe that regulations in general drive trailer design to a major degree, but they do make design more challenging for manufacturers, he said.

VDO RoadLog ELD device expands options for OBD II installation

Continental Commercial Vehicles & Aftermarket has expanded its VDO RoadLog ELD vehicle application with additional OBD II installation kits for light and medium-duty trucks.

August 6, 2015

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JB Hunt sues trucking software provider MercuryGate for $3.1 million, claims system didn’t work

Mega-carrier JB Hunt (No. 6 in the CCJ Top 250) has sued transportation management system provider MercuryGate for $3.1 million — the amount JB Hunt says it’s owed as a refund for software it says failed to meet the functionality agreed upon by the two parties.

August 5, 2015

Internet Truckstop Group hires sales exec Bill Vitti

Truckstop.com announced that Bill Vitti has joined the leadership team of Internet Truckstop Group as the company’s new Chief Sales Officer. Vitti will lead all company sales and serve on the leadership team, which oversees ITG companies including Truckstop.com, Real Time Freight, uDrove and Internet Truckstop Financial Services. He will split time between offices in […]

August 4, 2015

Remote diagnostics: fringe benefit or killer app?

Have the alignments between telematics companies and OEMs caused fleets to re-evaluate their use of mobile technologies? Is remote diagnostics the killer app you’ve been waiting for?

July 31, 2015

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Aljex integrates freight brokerage software with 10-4 Systems’ online marketplace

Aljex, a hosted software system used by brokers, 3PLs, carriers, and other transportation providers, has integrated with 10-4 Systems, an online transportation marketplace for matching loads.

July 30, 2015

Pizza delivery fleet TBHC creates ‘non-punitive’ video-based safety program

TBHC, the country’s largest distributor of Hunt Brothers Pizza, used the SmartDrive video-based safety system to establish a driver improvement program that wasn’t punitive.

July 30, 2015

Telematics partnership brings changes to Detroit Connect

Daimler Trucks North America is realigning it Detroit Connect telematics offerings with Zonar Systems.

July 30, 2015

Zonar’s Android-powered tablet

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Fleet Compliance

The cost of fleet compliance failures

Compliance failures are threatening fleet survival. Industry experts reveal the critical gaps costing carriers millions.

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Cargo theft costs trucking $18 million per day, most loads never recovered

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Trump delays heavy truck tariff one month, adds medium-duty tax

All New Volvo Vnl On Highway Fully Loaded Test Drive

Test driving Volvo's all new VNL

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Trimac acquires Service Transport Company

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