
A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration official points out that the agency's ongoing effort to revise the hours-of-service rule is still in the works, with the goal being "to provide some flexibility" to the key regulation affecting commercial truck drivers in the U.S.
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The company that was the first to put a computer in the cab of a truck is now working to move beyond being a hardware provider, said Omnitracs CEO Ray Greer, kicking off the company’s annual user conference – the need for which was highlighted by an outage last year.
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A longtime dry van truckload carrier, CalArk has been growing a last-mile delivery and warehousing business – but it discovered the same computing technology that works for its line-haul business wasn't right for this new venture.
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Omnitracs has integrated Blue Dot Solutions’ driver and mobile worker workflow technologies, formerly known as MilesAhead, into the company’s platform for enterprise-grade mobility, Omnitracs One.
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Transportation and logistics companies are now among the top-targeted industries by computer hackers. What can you do to prevent and prepare for a ransomware attack or a malicious computer virus?
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Change happens quickly in trucking, and the pace of change will only accelerate in the coming years, according to Susan Beardslee, principal analyst at ABI Research, whether that's electric vehicles, blockchain, government actions, or disruptive technologies.
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Ray Martinez, administrator of the FMCSA, asked attendees at Omnitracs’s user conference to “please prepare” for the December transition from AOBRDs to ELDs “now, if you have not done so.”
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Omnitracs CEO Ray Greer kicked off the company's User Conference 2019 by advising fleets to maximize time through smart routing rather than focus on total miles.
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When it comes to managing electronic logging devices in the back office, “Obviously, the big thing is to monitor for violations,” according to Annette Sandberg, CEO of TransSafe Consulting and a former administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
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"There are quite a few bad ELD vendors out there... They probably should have never been certified, but remember, this is a self-certification process." Find out more about the challenges with ELD devices in this report.
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