Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Louisiana, Mississippi, and elsewhere who are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac. And a big thanks to the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) and other relief groups who have mobilized to help. In other news this week… Trimble to Acquire North American Trucking Industry Enterprise Software […]
A few years ago I did some research on telematics. At the time, an insurance underwriter in the UK was exploring the idea of using telematics data to price automotive and fleet insurance. Since then, underwriters have started using GPS/telematics to price automotive insurance. Progressive Insurance has a program called Snapshot where it mails a […]
Traditional thinking is that government transportation compliance programs, such as hours of service (HOS) regulations, cost companies money. If the focus of your compliance efforts is solely to meet the regulation, then I concur. But, that approach is a lost opportunity to reduce operational costs through better driver and vehicle performance. Instead of just meeting […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a posting about how fleet routing applications could be improved by using “real-world” traffic data, particularly data on the true average speed per hour of vehicles traveling on specific road sections at different times of the day and week. GPS navigation device vendors like TomTom have this data, which […]
Traditionally, most private fleet operating businesses have viewed the private fleet as a separately managed entity that was typically focused on outbound distribution. In some cases, the fleet would have static backhauls for inbound goods. For-hire carriers were typically managed by a different team. We are seeing an increasing trend in customer interest in solutions […]
A few weeks ago, a press release from PostcodeAnywhere caught my attention. The company introduced a new routing solution for private fleets that uses real-world data from tens of thousands of customers driving with TomTom devices in the UK. This is the first routing solution that I am aware of that uses “real-world” average speed […]
My colleagues at ARC recently published a report (available to ARC clients only) on electric vehicle technologies. It struck me that some of the information in it would be interesting to truck fleet owners. According to the ARC report, there are four different types of e-vehicles: hybrid electric vehicle (HEV); plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV); pure […]