TomTom announced a new trucking solution for fleets that combines three unique applications in a trifecta promising improved efficiency. TomTom Work Active offers enhanced fleet monitoring, real-time reporting capabalities and traffic updates. WebFleet provides performance measurements and fleet trends, and TomTom Go 7000 Continue Reading

How important is it for fleets to update their mapping software? Consider the 117,000 new road restrictions put in place in North America just in the last year. Those changes affect weight allowances, one-way routes, hazmat lanes, bridges and, perhaps most importantly, tolls. With nearly 70,000 unique toll points on bridges and highways, factoring Continue Reading

An update to Cadec Global’s fleet managment system will allow the first software-based remote-engine shutdown technology for truck fleets. Remote shutdown requests can be initiated by drivers, fleet managers or dispatchers. Once the request is processed, an authorized security team Continue Reading

Maintaining a watchful eye on your fleet’s tires just got easier with the combination of Advanced ID Corp.’s Advanced ID/Pneu-Logic truck probe and Pro Saamya’s TiMaS or Tire-data Management System. Using Bluetooth and wireless RFID technology, data is sent directly Continue Reading

Rand McNally’s additions to its IntelliRoute and MileMilemaker commercial trucking software solutions include greater flexibility and customization in freight rating and truck routing, more specific routing in Mexico, and up-to-date U.S. ZIP and Canadian postal codes, weigh stations and toll costs. Carriers and shippers can now customize routing options, and customers can negotiate freight rates based on accurate truck-drivable routes tailored to individual truck configuration or type of goods carried.

Florida-based supermarket chain Publix will add Cadec’s Mobios TTS On-Board Computers and on-premise software to the cabs of all 600-plus trucks in its private fleet. The system’s functions can help eliminate or reduce violations, paperwork, DOT delays, and potential fines while automating many manual, time-consuming processes.