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commercial carrier journal | may 2018 33 BETTER CONTROL Maintenance, transparency and visibility give you cost control of your parts, your team, your trucks, and your time. Contact Us: tmwsystems.com phone: 1.800.401.6682 To be issued an OnRoad debit card, drivers must provide their name, ad- dress, date of birth, Social Security number, email address and phone number. A digital wallet Over the next few months, Comdata will be integrating OnRoad with the Comchek Mobile platform it launched one year ago. Comchek Mobile is a peer-to-peer payment platform for the trucking industry with functionality similar to consumer P2P applications such as PayPal and Venmo. Drivers can sign up free by downloading an app to receive a unique Comchek Mobile ID number. Fleets and freight brokers are using the cloud-based Comchek Mobile platform to transfer funds to drivers. Likewise, drivers are using Comchek Mobile to send payments to vendors, such as lumpers, using the unique IDs of other users in the network. Comdata plans to link Comchek Mobile to drivers' OnRoad debit cards so they can transfer funds to their card balance or to their exter- nal bank accounts. With both platforms, Comdata has made it easier for drivers to receive funds from motor carriers and freight brokers. This gives companies an op- portunity to pay drivers faster to better attract and retain them, Secord said. Both technologies can be integrated with back-office software systems and accounts payable functions. With the integration, a freight broker could offer drivers an instant-pay program. A broker could issue a portion of funds to a driver's Comchek Mobile or OnRoad card when the driver picks up the load, and then issue the remaining funds upon delivery. "Instant pay options are becoming a differentiator," Secord said. During the conference, Comdata showed statistics on how drivers have used the OnRoad debit MasterCard to pay for vacations and Netflix subscriptions, send money to family members and more. Seamless transition Fleets and freight brokers will be able to use their existing administra- tion methods for OnRoad and Comchek Mobile. These methods include Comdata's web portal, iConnectData and real-time web interfaces with back-office systems. At the conference, Comdata told its customers that OnRoad soon will be the only card they will be using for fuel transactions, to pay funds or both. The company plans to sunset the Express Cash card by the end of 2018. AARON HUFF is Senior Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal. E-mail ahuff@ccjmagazine.com or call (801) 754-4296. INTERESTED IN TRUCKING TECHNOLOGY? Scan the barcode or go to www.goo.gl/Ph9JK to subscribe to the CCJ Technology Weekly e-mail newsletter.