Category: Tech Talk

Employee-Owned Big G Express Improves Safety Score by 38 Percent After Deploying SmartDrive Program

fleetnewsdaily | February 12, 2019

Extended Recording, Managed Service, Video Quality and Efficient Coaching Process Cited in Decision to Implement SmartDrive Program Across Entire Fleet SmartDrive Systems, a leader in video-based safety and transportation intelligence, today announced that Big G Express, a premier over-the-road trucking company, has deployed the SmartDrive® program with Extended Recording across its entire fleet. The fleet […]

Loadsmart Awarded Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan

fleetnewsdaily | February 12, 2019

Loadsmart stands out for its ability to offer an all-in instant price for shippers before hiring the carrier Frost & Sullivan recognizes Loadsmart with the 2018 United States Company of the Year Award. Loadsmart uses of machine learning in its automated freight brokerage platform to enable instant pricing and booking. Its solution has attracted dozens […]

City of Phoenix to Use Telematics for Fleet Management

fleetnewsdaily | February 12, 2019

MetTel will deploy advanced location-based services, dispatch automation and monitoring vehicle diagnostics and driver safety data. Using MetTel’s IoT Fleet Management technology, the City of Phoenix is enabling its Public Works and Water departments to deliver more efficient, cost-effective and safer water resources and waste services to residents and facilities to help meet the city’s […]

Tesla Acquires Maxwell Technologies

fleetnewsdaily | February 11, 2019

Tesla’s Acquisition of Maxwell Technologies Should Reduce Battery Costs Tesla’s purchase of Maxwell Technologies is expected to finalize mid-2019. Maxwell Technologies, which already supplies lithium-ion batteries for EVs manufactured by other automakers, can help Tesla reduce the per kilowatt-hour costs of its batteries. Tesla said it will launch an all-stock exchange to buy all of […]

Trucker Assist Services Launches FREE Load Board for Freight Brokers

fleetnewsdaily | February 10, 2019

APP is designed to work in benefit of the trucker New startup Trucker Assist Services, TAS has been working to streamline the tedious, often confusing, operational procedures associated with broker onboarding, freight procurement, and invoicing. TAS says “We have been developing an integrated load board, available next month, free to brokers. The algorithms within the […]

MiX Telematics Aims to Improves Payroll Management

fleetnewsdaily | February 7, 2019

New Time Entry tool allow customers to extract more detailed activity data from the Hours of Service solution MiX Telematics solutions are delivered as SaaS to more than 736,000 subscribers. Mix provides fleet and asset management solutions announced an extension to its class-leading Hours of Service ELD solution Time Entry. Time Entry is the result […]