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- December 13, 2023

A Q&A with Santa, and Fleet Manager Mrs Claus, of North Pole Inc

North Pole Inc has embraced modern technology to transform the business into a lean, efficient, and highly reliable Christmas present delivery operati...

Distracted Driving Awareness Month

April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month; read a few tips for preventing distractions using telematics below.

- September 14, 2022

An Urgent Upgrade: 3G’s Sunset and the Dawn of 5G

3G networks are being phased out. Most networks are set to go offline soon. Current 3G hardware is incompatible and fleets that don’t upgrade are in t...

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Sarah Barbod - December 09, 2016

Operation Safe Driver Week: 2016 Statistics

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), a nonprofit association dedicated to commercial road safety, has released the results of Operation Safe Driver Week, an annual exercise conducted in cooperation with law enforcement agencies in the Unite...

Marco Encinas - December 07, 2016

Will Drones Change Trucking?

In August 29 new rules from the Federal Aviation Administration went into effect regarding drone operation.As reported in The Washington Post, the FAA has made the process for obtaining permission to operate a commercial drone much simpler, by elimin...

Oswaldo Flores - November 30, 2016

President-Elect Chooses Transportation Secretary

This week President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Elaine Chao as U.S.Secretary of Transportation. American Trucking Associations (ATA) President Chris Spear has commented favorably on the selection, noting that Chao has extensive ...

Sarah Barbod - November 23, 2016

Rush Hour: Three Ways Fleets are Managing Black Friday + Cyber Monday Demand with GPS Tracking Technology

While it might require superhuman powers to push through the lines and mosh pits that accompany Black Friday sales, at the end of the day, the struggle is over and people relax and curl up with leftover pumpkin pie.Different story for the trucking in...

Sarah Barbod - November 18, 2016

Survey Reports Top 10 Issues for Truckers

The American Trucking Associations conference in Las Vegas this year was the venue for a discussion of the issues that are top of mind in the trucking industry.At the conference, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) presented its fin...

Oswaldo Flores - November 11, 2016

Will a Trump Presidency Affect the ELD Mandate?

An article this week in trade magazine Fleet Equipment takes a look at how the new administration in Washington might affect the law regarding electronic logging devices for trucks.Conclusion: there’s little reason to expect that the ELD mandate will...