Platform Science companions with Netradyne to supply Driver-i

Know-how information and briefs for the week of Dec. 18, 2022: 

Geotab, Agero associate on roadside help companies

Fleet telematics Geotab is now providing roadside help companies by way of partnership with Agero, a B2B software program supplier for producers, insurers and fleets.

Geotab’s roadside add-in, obtainable within the Geotab Market for ProPlus subscribers, offers fleets entry to Agero’s curated third-party community of digitally enabled light-, medium- and heavy-duty service suppliers. It gives companies resembling towing, locksmith, battery increase, gasoline supply, flat tire change and extra.

Agero – by qualifying, monitoring and constantly measuring its suppliers towards key efficiency metrics – blends information analytics, territory and job optimization, and relationship administration to make sure dispatch of the proper supplier automobile with the required gear to extend automobile uptime and enhance fleet productiveness.

The platform retains drivers knowledgeable on the present standing of their request, together with real-time updates on estimated arrival time, stay truck monitoring on a map and customizable SMS alerts.

Netradyne’s Driver-i obtainable by way of Platform Science market

Platform Science is providing a brand new answer in its market.

The linked automobile platform has collaborated with fleet security software program supplier Netradyne to supply the Driver-I answer, a vision-based fleet security digital camera that goals to bolster good driving habits.

“By including Driver-i to our app market of options, we’re offering fleets with the power to combine a cutting-edge security digital camera system and superior imaginative and prescient options with different options in a unified, user-friendly platform whereas giving drivers a instrument to self-coach to drive safer on our highways,” mentioned Joe Jumayao, vice chairman of enterprise growth at Platform Science.

The Driver-i system can assess pace, site visitors signal compliance, following distance, aggressive driving, distracted driving and extra.

It alerts drivers to dangerous driving habits by issuing a corrective alert in real-time, enabling fleets to raised mitigate dangers and scale back the chance of accidents. As a result of it analyzes 100% of drive time, Driver-i can acknowledge and reinforce proactive driving behaviors, maintaining drivers engaged and aiding fleets in retaining their finest drivers.

Transport Professional customers can publish masses to Trucker Path

Brokers utilizing the cloud-based transportation administration software program Transport Professional can now publish masses on the Trucker Path TruckLoads digital freight trade.

The Transport Professional TMS integration with TruckLoads immediately places obtainable masses in entrance of Trucker Path’s 1 million-plus neighborhood of drivers. It permits brokers to choose in to publish all of their obtainable masses on TruckLoads with a single click on. On the Trucker Path load board, customers can lock in capability immediately and digitally or talk instantly with the dealer to barter charges or ask questions. Drivers and carriers can even confirm their working authority and insurance coverage on the platform, simplifying the onboarding course of for brokers. The mixing additionally affords a hyperlink again to Transport Professional’s ebook now platform, which will increase on-line reserving visibility and creates an automatic workflow for each events.

“With the moment entry to TruckLoads via our integration with Transport Professional, their brokers can considerably improve publicity to masses,” mentioned Trucker Path Chief Advertising Officer Chris Oliver. “On the identical time, the neighborhood of Trucker Path customers good points rapid entry to extra obtainable freight. This built-in functionality will assist meet capability wants for brokers and improve the power of drivers and fleets utilizing TruckLoads to simply discover masses and generate income.”

CloudTrucks enhances a number of options

A know-how and repair supplier for trucking entrepreneurs has added a number of new options and enhancements to its platform in an effort to streamline operations and increase earnings for truck drivers.

CloudTrucks’ latest choices embody assist for load-out trailers, “pay now” repayments, price con importing, allow ebook enhancements, CT credit score for sole proprietors, month-to-month enterprise statements and in-app cancellations.

With assist for load-out trailers, power-only (PO) drivers not should haul empty load-out trailers. They’ll quickly have the ability to ebook load-out trailers instantly on the CloudTrucks platform with out having to contact operations for guide approval, permitting them to earn more money and achieve a sooner load reserving course of.

CloudTrucks has made its reimbursement insurance policies extra versatile so Digital Service clients can extra simply handle their finances, funds and profitability. With “pay now” repayments, drivers can repay all or a bigger portion of their repayments utilizing their obtainable and future CT Money stability. With price con importing, CT Flex and Money clients will quickly have the flexibleness to add their very own price confirmations and add dealer load IDs on exterior masses, making it less complicated for drivers and admins to hurry up load processing and payouts.

New enhancements to the digital allow ebook make it simpler for Digital Service clients to go DOT inspections and stay compliant. They’ll now obtain alerts when it’s time to replace expiring paperwork and simply seek for their data inside their paperwork with out having to scroll. CT Credit score, CloudTrucks’ no-fee, no-interest bank card, is now obtainable for sole proprietors so extra trucking entrepreneurs can entry a credit score line to maintain their vehicles operating and construct enterprise credit score.

CloudTrucks has additionally enhanced month-to-month enterprise statements, permitting Digital Service, Flex and Money clients to obtain official letterhead PDFs of their payouts and deductions to simply observe and show their month-to-month revenue for accounting, finance administration and mortgage purposes. CloudTrucks has additionally added in-app cancellation so clients can save time by requesting to cancel jobs with out having to name the operations workforce.

Along with its product updates, CloudTrucks has additionally just lately established new assets for trucking entrepreneurs and proprietor operators on its platform. A brand new partnership with the MICHELIN Benefit Program offers clients entry to roadside help and most well-liked charges on tires, and the CT Academy video sequence is now obtainable to information trucking entrepreneurs via finest practices for constructing profitable companies.

ATrack introduces new 4G merchandise

World telematics firm ATrack Know-how Inc. has launched new 4G merchandise for fleet administration and asset monitoring to assist logistics operators enhance administration effectivity and scale back working prices.

This contains the AK500 Telematics Gateway and the AX300 OBD automobile tracker

The AK500 is a multi-functional telematics gateway that makes use of LTE Cat4 high-speed connectivity with 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi sharing, Bluetooth and real-time positioning features. It helps a number of communication protocols and may learn engine information of varied business autos and vehicles, together with mileage, pace, gasoline quantity, gasoline consumption, engine pace, idling time and different parameters. This may help fleet administration operators in conducting in-depth information evaluations to assist early detection of potential automobile issues and order preventive upkeep. As well as, the AK500 has a number of interfaces that may be linked to numerous sensors, resembling tire stress displays, ID card readers, temperature sensors and extra.

The AX300 OBD automobile tracker helps a number of communication protocols and may meet the monitoring necessities for each business autos and heavy equipment. Differing from typical trackers that may solely learn a single CAN bus on the automobile, the AX300 can learn two units of auto CAN bus data concurrently to acquire extra detailed engine information.

The mix of the AK500 telematics gateway and AX300 OBD tracker may help the logistics business decide automobile standing and enhance automobile dispatch effectivity in addition to handle driving habits, detecting destructive driving behaviors resembling dashing, harsh cornering, and idling, amongst different issues, to additional enhance effectivity.