New advances in truck technology are definitely designed to make the roads safer for all drivers, but companies still need to worry about cost. A July article on Truckinginfo.com discussed the benefits of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) systems as well as the barriers to implementing them which were discussed […]
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With truck technology constantly changing, how do you know which diagnostic tools to choose? Technology advances used to happen gradually. Think how long televisions were broadcasting in black and white until color TV came along: or how long it took to go from the traditional dial phone to cordless models. […]
As a fleet owner, you try your best to please your customers, but is there a better way to satisfy their needs while saving money on your part? If you Google “dynamic routing,” the first entry that shows up refers to network routers but read this definition: “Dynamic routing is […]
Every business has the power to be innovative, but there are certain steps you need to take. Disruption is a fact of life for industries today. Cassettes disrupted the vinyl record industry and then were disrupted themselves by the iPod. Digital cameras disrupted the photographic film industry and now cameras […]
I thought Amazon’s drone delivery service would be the most amazing approach to last mile delivery that couldn’t be topped. Obviously, I was mistaken. There’s no arguing the fact that we’ve all become used to an e-commerce “on-demand” world, where consumers want what they want when they want it…and they […]
How will the internet of things (IoT) and machine-to-machine interoperability impact two major trucking industry woes…driver shortage and fuel costs? Last week I posted a blog discussing how our industry has been and will continue to be impacted by the internet of things (IoT). For the immediate future, what could […]
Communication and connectivity are terms rooted in person-to-person relationships but the Internet of Things (IoT) has shifted that to a device-to-device and machine-to-machine relationship. In 2002, Forbes magazine published an article entitled “The Internet of Things,” which talked about a “standardized way for computers to understand the world.” Although discussions […]
You invest a lot of money in keeping your systems from being hacked but trouble may be coming from unexpected places. Last month, attendees at the AmeriQuest Symposium were made aware of a form of hacking that is much harder to combat because it’s coming from the inside. Well, not […]
Look at today’s truck technology as an assist in your maintenance practices, not a replacement. In her recent IdeaXchange blog, Jane Clark, VP of Member Services for NationaLease, talks about the TMC’s spring meeting in Nashville. A major note of that meeting was the increasing relationship between technology and maintenance […]