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uShip to expand into commercial freight market

At the Great American Trucking Show on Friday, Aug. 24, uShip announced an expansion into the commercial freight market with the soon-to-be-released uShip Pro platform. Currently about 70 percent of uShip’s online auction-style freight moving service comes for the consumer side. “Since 2004, about 30 percent of uShip’s business has come from B-to-B,” said Dean […]

August 24, 2012

Rand McNally releases updates for TND truck GPS

Rand McNally announced a new software release for its IntelliRoute TND 510 truck GPS unit that includes updated map data, additional trucking points of interest and many of the new features from the new TND 720 that was released in June. TND 510 units will ship with the upgraded software starting next month. The upgrade […]

August 24, 2012

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Cadec Global names Allen CEO

Cadec Global Inc., a provider of fleet management solutions, announced that transportation industry veteran Pete Allen has joined the company as chief executive officer. Allen previously was senior vice president of global sales at telematics company inthinc. He alsol has served in senior executive roles at GreenRoad Technologies (formerly Drive Diagnostics) and Xata Corp., now […]

August 22, 2012

Noregon names Hamil director, national fleet accounts

Noregon Systems has added Brent Hamil as director of national fleet accounts to oversee and develop major transportation fleets and national service accounts for JPRO Commercial Fleet Products. Hamil brings 16 years of sales and management experience in the transportation industry to Noregon. He comes to Noregon from Freight Wing Inc. and has worked previously […]

August 22, 2012

PNE addresses efficiency with Descartes solution

Descartes Systems Group, which unites logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that PNE Corp., a distributor of propane cylinders across Canada, is improving efficiency with Descartes’ cloud-based route planning, optimization and mobile solution. PNE’s propane exchange network serves more than 2,000 retail locations with prefilled propane cylinders. PNE said that to support and accelerate growth, it […]

August 21, 2012

$17.5M available to states with distracted driving laws

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday, Aug. 20, announced a new grant program that will provide about $17.5 million to states that have laws banning distracted driving in fiscal year 2013. NHTSA estimates that at least 3,092 people were killed and an additional 416,000 others were injured in distraction-affected crashes in 2010, including […]

August 20, 2012

U.S. Army gets help with condition-based maintenance program from Noregon

Noregon Systems announced that it has received a contract from QinetiQ North America to support the delivery of a Condition-Based Maintenance plus (CBM+) pilot system supporting the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) based in Warren, Mich. “We are honored to be able to team with QNA on this program,” said Bill Van […]

August 20, 2012

Cadec expands PowerVue scorecards

Cadec Global, a provider of fleet management solutions, announced expanded Performance Management Scorecards as part of its PowerVue system to help fleet managers track and report on driver and vehicle performance more closely in real time, improving safety, fuel efficiency and customer service. The Performance Management Scorecards – also known as GYR for its graphic […]

August 16, 2012

Cheetah, Efreightsolutions team for integrated logistics offering

Cheetah Software Systems Inc. and Efreightsolutions have announced a partnership to offer an integrated logistics intelligence solution. According to the companies, Matching Cheetah’s logistics platform with Efreightsolutions’ transportation management system provides a dynamic, intelligent and predictive solution to move products to the right place, on time, for the least cost and with the best customer […]

August 16, 2012

Transplace and LLamasoft to share data, technology

Transplace, a provider of transportation management services and logistics technology, announced a partnership with LLamasoft that will integrate Transplace truckload benchmarking data into LLamasoft Supply Chain Guru software. Transplace said the partnership will enable the companies to better provide customers with real-time shipping data and supply chain design technology to optimize their transportation networks and achieve […]

August 16, 2012

ALK relocates corporate headquarters

ALK Technologies Inc., a provider of geologistical and navigation software, announced the new location of its global corporate headquarters in Princeton, N.J. The 40,000-square-foot facility located at 457 North Harrison St. accommodates all of ALK’s Princeton-based employees, consolidating its previous multiple offices into a single facility. Located between New York City and Philadelphia, ALK maintains […]

August 16, 2012

Mobile technology highlights XRS Corp.’s first user event

Mobile technology’s critical role in the trucking industry was the hot topic of conversation and education among more than 400 fleet managers, owner-operators, drivers and industry experts during XRS Corp.’s first annual Xata User Event (XUE) in Minneapolis Aug. 12 – 14. The event provided participants with an education program that targeted mobile trends and […]

August 15, 2012

Xata becomes XRS, debuts all-mobile platform

Xata Corp. on Monday, Aug. 13, announced it is changing its name to XRS Corp. and introduced an all-mobile platform of the same name for trucking compliance, performance and fleet optimization. The new name, which stands for Xata Road Science, is effective immediately. Internally, the movement to XRS has been in the works for two […]

August 13, 2012

CEO Jay Coughlan announcing XRS. Photo by Greg Miller

Spireon upgrades VehiclePath mobile asset platform

Spireon Inc., a provider of mobile resource management and business intelligence solutions used by local fleet owners to maximize their mobile assets and work force, announced the release of its new VehiclePath 2.0 User Interface, its new VP2500 GPS device and its new VehiclePath Website. VehiclePath is Spireon’s GPS-based information platform designed to connect local […]

August 13, 2012

Ryan Transportation chooses Rand McNally’s TND 760

Rand McNally announced that its TND 760 has been chosen by Ryan Transportation Group for full deployment to its fleet of 150 trucks. Ryan Transportation will use the integration provided by Rand McNally’s Connect software to link data coming from the in-cab devices to TruckMate software from TMW Systems, streamlining business operations. Executives at Ryan […]

August 13, 2012

Rand Mc Nally Tnd 760 Fleet Edition

Qualcomm named top telematics supplier by Frost & Sullivan

Qualcomm Inc. – a provider of integrated wireless systems, applications and services to transportation and logistics companies – has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the best supplier of advanced telematics services with the 2012 U.S. Fleet Manager’s Choice Award. Ranked as the number-one telematics supplier by 75 percent of fleet managers surveyed, Qualcomm […]

August 13, 2012

Accuride to use Plex software

Plex Systems Inc., a provider of online cloud management software, has announced Accuride Corp. will deploy its Software-as-a-Service/cloud enterprise resource planning solution across its core operations. As it implements the Plex Online ERP system, Accuride says it will consolidate from seven separate systems running more than 200 applications to one ERP system to centralize shared […]

August 11, 2012

PeopleNet recognizes fleets for innovation

PeopleNet, a provider of integrated onboard computing and mobile communications systems, announced the recipients of its 2012 Innovator of the Year Awards, which the company gives to fleets that demonstrate exceptional leadership in using PeopleNet to create unique solutions that accelerate/drive return on investment. Randy Boyles, vice president of tailored solutions for PeopleNet, presented the […]

August 9, 2012

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