For commercial vehicles, location-based services are more about performance than convenience. As fleets, owner-operators, and shippers struggle with the new realities of a deregulated market, competition for new commercial accounts often boils down to gate-in times, flexibility and communication. In this marketplace, location-based services have significant .... more

Increasing competition from the globalization of import and export markets is creating demand among logistics and transportation providers for products, services and technologies that can improve the way freight is scheduled, moved and delivered. Because of the diverse number of independent players involved in the movement of containerized freight, intermodal shipping remains one of the most   .... more

Numerous financial and operating challenges face companies competing in commercial freight markets, as the open market dynamics fostered by deregulation force fleets to compete for each customer and each load. In this climate, the ability of fleets to control costs and operate at peak efficiency has taken on renewed importance. Fleets are  .... more

Engine- and vehicle-mounted electronics has created numerous selling points and driver conveniences for both passenger and commercial vehicles. The capability to collect and analyze data from sensing devices and relay this information to service areas via local- and wide-area wireless networks is revolutionizing  .... more

For many fleets, yard management continues to be a challenge to improving overall efficiency and bottom-line profitability. Miniaturization and decreasing hardware price points are expanding the addressable market. But information system and component suppliers are finding that to successfully penetrate this .... more