Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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42 commercial carrier journal | november 2016 M onday, Sept. 26, marked the inaugural joint user conference of TMW and PeopleNet, called Trimble In.Sight. In the last five years, Trimble has become the largest technology supplier in the transportation and logistics space, due largely to its acquisitions of PeopleNet in 2011 and TMW Systems in 2012. Brian McLaughlin, president of PeopleNet, and Dave Wangler, president of TMW Systems, say that by coming together, their companies are creating unique products and capabilities for asset and nonasset transportation and logistics customers. While speaking to an estimated crowd of 2,400, the two made several new product announcements and described a Trimble vision to "transform the way the transportation industry works." Wangler described the new Trip Insight product as a "game changer" and the transportation industry's first "comprehen- sive journey management" application. technology Trip Insight is a Soware-as-a-Service (SaaS) that lives in three places simultaneously: a multi-tenant server in the cloud, the ALK CoPilot Truck navigation application on PeopleNet devices and the TMW Suite transportation management soware system. Within TMW Suite, Trip Insight, when activated, is a tab module of TMW Operations, a program fleets use for their load planning and dispatch workflow. By clicking on the Trip Insight tab, a planner sees an optimized trip plan for the se- lected driver with ETAs for each stop in sequence. "Starting with a standard dispatch, Trip Insight builds comprehensive optimized trip plans that account for everything — fuel stops, hours-of-service rest breaks, historical traffic, vehicle- and load-specific route restrictions and more," Wangler said. "It's all there." Once a dispatch assignment is finalized, the optimized trip plans are sent to PeopleNet devices. Drivers see pickup and delivery stops with the best options for mandatory rest breaks and fuel stops. e ETAs for each stop are visible to drivers and fleet managers. ey change dynami- cally as the planned route progresses and as real-time traffic and weather data from ALK are brought into the calculations. Trip Insight also calculates "PTA" – the projected day and time that drivers will be STRATEGIC GROWTH: Trimble is the largest technology supplier in the transportation and logistics space. COMING TOGETHER: TMW Systems and PeopleNet are creating new products for their customers. TRANSPORTATION AID: Trip Insight is said to be the first "comprehensive journey management" application. Game changer TMW Systems, PeopleNet share stage, talk Trip Insight A demonstration of Trip Insight was given to CCJ by Bill Nimchuk, senior product manager at ALK Technologies, another Trimble company. Dave Wangler (right), president of TMW Systems, and Brian McLaughlin, president of PeopleNet, kicked off the Trimble In.Sight conference Sept. 26.