Navistar, Geotab announce strategic truck telematics partnership
Navistar International Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Geotab, allowing International customers to add certain Geotab fleet management solutions through Navistar’s factory-installed telematics device. According to Navistar, partnerships such as this with telematics service providers (TSPs) will streamline fleet management solutions for customers, regardless of provider. “Partnerships with TSPs provide customers streamlined access to
From pen and paper to data automation: A quick-start guide to truck service dashboards
Glance around your office and tell me if this sounds right: The room is stuffed with stacks of service documents and hand-written notes, whiteboards covered in ink, a few filing cabinets filled with years of archives, and a desktop computer with folders full of Excel sheets. To the untrained eye it’s a daunting, unorganized jungle
A service dashboard data use-case: Truck tire maintenance
If you’re just dipping your toe into the dashboard deep-end, finding a system to help provide visibility and control of your fleet’s tire program is a good place to start. To that end, Dana has developed its Rhombus TireAnalytics dashboard, which was created to give a fleet visibility and control of its tire program to
How do you know that your service dashboard data is accurate?
James Griffin, chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Fleet Advantage, says he advises his clients to invest in a service dashboard because it keeps data secure and consistent. “The data used to create dashboards is generally sourced from defined data sources and not easily modified by multiple users,” Griffin says. “A spreadsheet can
Decisiv, Cummins expand point-of-service capabilities
Decisiv Inc. announced an agreement to integrate the Cummins Guidanz suite of web-based and mobile products into the Decisiv SRM Ecosystem in support of their mutual fleet and service provider customers. With the integration of Cummins Guidanz products in the Decisiv SRM Ecosystem, fleets, managed care providers and service providers will benefit from having necessary
Samsara, Nationwide partner to offer video telematics to commercial trucking fleets
Nationwide has partnered with Samsara to offer a new video telematics solution to excess and surplus (E&S) customers with 11 or more commercial trucks. The new partnership will allow eligible Nationwide E&S insureds to leverage Samsara’s artificial intelligence-based video telematics solutions and fleet management software in their operations at a subsidized cost. According to Samsara,
A fleet view of the latest truck technology
To truly take advantage of the latest truck technology, you have to do more than spec it. You have to do more than analyze it. The real key to making technology work for your trucking operation is something far more difficult: communication. You have to talk about the technology, understand its uses the same way
Orbcomm introduces new analytics, reporting platform
Orbcomm Inc. has released its new analytics and reporting platform, which the company says offers advanced data insights and a user interface to provide customers with a unified view of all their transportation asset types using a single sign-on. The new, cloud-based “Orbcomm Platform,” which the company says has the capacity to support millions of
Who will you share your truck data with?
The world is connected; your fleet needs to be as well. But with great data connectivity comes great data responsibility and, most importantly, trust. How data integration outside of your fleet plays out is a story with two sides: the fleet’s point of view and that of the shipper’s. With this digital interactive story, we’ve
Equipment management’s place in the larger fleet management picture
Technology that connects you to your truck also connects you to those you work with, from safety managers to driver dispatch and even the back office. You’re all pulling in the same direction, and the right data integrations can make sure you’re all looking at the same digital page. All of those departments (if you’re
How truck tire data tells an application story
Data is simply the representation of activity in digital zeroes and ones. So, what if you could leverage it to better understand your truck tire activity–from how they perform in their application to wear patterns and reasons for removal? That’s information that you could act on to boost your bottom line. You know how huge
Profile: The City of Lakeland’s fleet is prepared for severe weather at all times
It’s always news when hurricane season begins in the U.S., but for the Fleet Management division in the City of Lakeland, Florida, the date just isn’t all that relevant. Read more about Lakeland’s fleet and how they deal with the constant threat of severe weather by clicking below to view our interactive fleet profile. Read
