Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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44 commercial carrier journal | november 2016 technology • Continental, which has a U.S. tele- matics division called VDO Road- Log that supplies ELD technology, acquired a majority stake in Zonar, a provider of fleet management technology and the exclusive OEM partner for Daimler Trucks North America's Virtual Technician solution installed in more than 200,000 Daim- ler trucks. DTNA previously acquired a minority stake in Zonar and will re- tain its stake. Terms of the Continen- tal-Zonar deal were not released. • FourKites – a provider of real-time load tracking and shipment visibility via mobile, cloud and analytics software – announced it raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. The two-year-old company previously raised $3.5 million in seed and debt funding. • Pegasus TransTech, a provider of enterprise mobility and business process automation, announced the integration of the myPilot mobile app into its Transflo Mobile platform, allowing drivers to ex - pedite the fueling process at Pilot Flying J travel centers. Drivers choose a fuel lane based on real-time estimates of remain- ing wait time, receive a secure mobile PIN code for cardless fueling and activate the fuel pump with the code. • Truckstop.com launched its Rate Anal- ysis system designed to gather market data on rates in real time to determine the best rate for a given lane. The cloud- based program charts data on paid rates from Truckstop.com's network and third-party partnerships and allows fleets to input their own rate history for any lane and compare it to other rates for the same lane. Rate Analysis also shows a live feed of available capacity for each lane and allows users to send direct quotes to potential customers. • Aljex Software, a web-based pro - vider of transportation management software for freight brokers, integrat- ed with Truckstop.com to bring its freight-matching data to Aljex cus- tomers. Data from Truckstop.com now populates fields directly in Aljex to help increase efficiency by saving time and eliminating copying errors. INBRIEF PeopleNet takes next steps in mobility, big data, video intelligence P eopleNet shared a number of product updates and develop- ments at the inaugural Trimble In.Sight user conference, held Sept. 26-28 in Nashville, Tenn., with fellow Trimble company TMW Systems. PeopleNet's companion Connected- Driver Mobility App now is integrat- ed with the TMWSuite platform. e driver-facing app is currently in use by more than 11,000 drivers on their smartphones. rough the integra- tion, the app provides bidirectional messaging, dispatch and stop data, hours-of-service availability, driver pay, time off and more information to drivers. A new single-sign-on capability enables dispatchers using TMWSuite soware to view their PeopleNet driver log hours within a unified interface. e screen displays log data in context with other important data related to driver management, safety and compliance. TMW Systems' new FleetConneX soware now offers near real-time communication between fleet opera- tions and drivers. e soware gives PeopleNet users access to a cloud- based solution to integrate their mobile communication platforms into TMWSuite soware without costly on-premise servers and other resources. Big data To further advance its big data capa- bilities, PeopleNet has developed a user interface that combines all of its reporting, business intelligence and analytics solutions in a single web portal. The portal, ConnectedFleet Central, is available to fleets with the ConnectedFleet Platform and provides access to Central Intelli- gence, a sophisticated and advanced analytics engine. Central Intelligence aggregates all of the data from PeopleNet's ve- hicle health monitoring, safety and compliance applications and provides self-discovery tools, dashboards and reports for an interactive and com- plete view of operations. PeopleNet also announced a two- year extension with Lowell, Ark.- based J.B. Hunt Transport Services (CCJ Top 250, No. 6), a PeopleNet customer since 2012. In addition to using PeopleNet's eDriver Logs and an integrated weigh station bypass service from DriveWyze, J.B. Hunt will deploy in-cab navigation with CoPilot Truck from ALK Technologies throughout its fleet of more than 13,000 trucks. PeopleNet also now offers the op- tion for integrated le- and right- view cameras to its Video Intelligence System for additional liability protec- tion and prevention capabilities. e cameras are built into a truck's spot mirror and not mounted to existing mirror brackets. "Almost a quarter of all collisions involving a commercial vehicle hap- pen on the side of the truck, and video provides a neutral eyewitness against at-fault accident claims," said Jim Angel, vice president of video intelligence solutions for PeopleNet. – Aaron Huff Central Intelligence aggregates all of the data from PeopleNet's applications and provides self-discovery tools, dashboards and reports.