Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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40 commercial carrier journal | august 2017 technology • Rubicon Global announced the Rubicon- Pro Fuel program and partnerships with Fuelman and TAC Energy to provide fuel discounts, equipment and financial benefits to independent waste haulers and truckers that previously were available only to large regional and national fleets. • Drivewyze expanded its weigh station bypass services in North Carolina, bringing its total locations in the state to 16. The 13 new sites are located along Interstates 26, 40, 77, 85 and 95. • Sentry Insurance rolled out a new online driver training program. Powered by CarriersEdge, the platform is designed to consider the individual learning styles of users and provide engaging and interactive learning experiences. Sentry said CarriersEdge will complement and expand its safety, risk management and educational services designed to help fleet managers and trucking businesses improve driver safety and lower operating costs. • Dispatching Solutions announced that its DSi Mobile platform now uses the Google Maps Engine as its core mapping technology to provide an enhanced user interface as well as access to Google Maps' standard mapping and routing features. Applications on the DSi Mobile platform include scheduling and dispatching, GPS and fleet management, electronic logs and compliance, and the company said Google Maps will improve the platform's ability to optimize routes, calculate real-time ETAs, track assets, analyze behaviors and review trends. • PeopleNet, a provider of fleet mobility technology, integrated Continental's ContiPres - sureCheck tire pressure monitoring system into its telematics platform following completion of a successful beta test. Continental's CPC TPMS allows both drivers and back-office personnel to continuously monitor the real-time pressure and temperature of their tires. The CPC sensor is mounted on the tire's inner liner. • FourKites, a provider of real-time freight tracking and supply chain visibility solutions, partnered with HaulFox, a cloud-based trans- portation management software system, to incorporate FourKites' platform with HaulFox's solution that helps enhance day-to-day freight shipping processes. FourKites' technology col- lects shipping location and status information from more than 60 onboard GPS/ELD systems, trailer-tracking devices and driver cell phones. • MacroPoint announced that its smart- phone-based freight visibility platform was selected by West Chester, Pa.-based A. Duie Pyle Brokerage Solutions for real-time load tracking. INBRIEF EBE adds Capture Wizard to CMC mobile app E BE Technologies, a provider of automated decision sup- port applications, has added a Capture Wizard enhance- ment to its Connect Mobile Capture soware to assist the driver in obtaining the best quality document images before submitting to dispatch. e Capture Wizard audits documents at the point of capture and requires drivers to recapture documents that do not meet quality standards. Drivers receive immediate feedback and get tips to improve image capture, such as adjusting the angle or the proximity of the mobile device. e enhanced feature eliminates driver frustration at having to recapture images later, the company said. CMC is a mobile scanning application that also is designed to serve as the driver's mobile command center. CMC can link to carriers' information systems to allow drivers to access and interact with in-house and partner mobile offerings. Other CMC features include an interface that reduces manual keystrokes, inte- gration with dispatch that pushes the order number directly to the driver's mobile device, configurable document types and indexing assistance. "Drivers, now more than ever, want innovative ways to perform their daily du- ties efficiently and with assurances that they are fulfilling what's required of them," said Michael Randone, EBE's vice president of Mobile Solutions. – Aaron Huff Chevin fleet maintenance software adds multicurrency support C hevin Fleet Solutions, a provider of web-based fleet and asset management soware, has added multicurrency features to its FleetWave solution to sup- port businesses that operate across borders. e features are designed to allow currencies to be rendered in multiple ways. Fuel purchases and other transactions can be recorded in more than one cur- rency. Users can view transactions in their original currency and convert them into other currencies based on personal settings. FleetWave's multicurrency feature also has live feeds to exchange rates for up-to-date conversions and can account for local tax rates. Also available in FleetWave are customizable fuel economy labels that are used to categorize how much a vehicle pollutes. e label can be configured with region-specific values, colors and defaults to provide more detailed definitions and indicate vehicles that are rated outside a company's emissions policy. Multilingual options eliminate the need for manual translation by letting users define settings and metrics. "With FleetWave, Chevin can help simplify every aspect of local and global fleet, asset and workforce management," said Ron Katz, vice president of North Ameri- can sales for Chevin. – Aaron Huff Chevin's latest FleetWave features are designed to allow currencies to be rendered in multiple ways depending on the user or system configurations. EBE's CMC mobile app links to a variety of web- based driver tools.