Telogis Fleet's new animated vehicle history trails make visualizing the past a lot easier
Recreating the past isn’t easy. You only have to watch an episode of CSI to see how painstaking it can be trying to replay something that happened yesterday, last week or last year. Of course it might be easier if we all had perfect memories but the fact is we don’t, which can make it difficult to remember clearly exactly what we did even just a few hours ago. When it comes to reviewing your fleet’s activity, relying solely on the driver’s memory won’t give you the accurate picture you need to effectively manage your vehicles.
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Restoring power as quickly as possible is vitally important
Picture the scene: A major disaster has struck the southern states. A massive hurricane has destroyed homes, flooded streets and downed power lines. Rescue efforts are being hampered by power outages which have shut down communication centers and severely limited the number of patients hospitals can handle. To minimize the loss of life and alleviate the suffering of people affected by this disaster it is vitally important electricity is restored to the affected areas.
The thorny problem of managing such a logistical nightmare often ends up squarely on the shoulders of the operations manager or fleet supervisors who need to muster their team and coordinate all the trucks, drivers and personnel to send them to affected areas as quickly as possible.
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The ACM-ICPC proved that future fleet management software development is in good hands
I’ve always been led to believe that our sharpest minds were being snapped up by wealthy arms manufacturers. Some time ago London’s Guardian Newspaper claimed that ‘more than half the world’s best scientists and engineers [were] employed in the arms race’. So it’s refreshing to know that some of the brightest brains in the world of computer programming are working hard to develop solutions that benefit the environment instead of coming up with new ways of killing people.
Joey Scarr and Edwin Flores are employed by Telogis, a developer of fleet management software programs that assist fleet owners to operate with a much smaller carbon footprint, reducing their fuel usage and encouraging operators to drive more economically. Joey and Edwin, who are also both working towards honors in Bachelors of Computer Science, make up two-thirds of Team J.E.T. (they are the J and E of J.E.T.), with Thomas Steinke as the third team member.
Take the 5-minute SaaS software quiz and find out if you need to switch to web-based telematics
Web-based software is growing in popularity and there are good reasons why. Also known as SaaS (Software as a Service), web-based has gone from desktop’s poor cousin to being the preferred choice for a lot of businesses. This isn’t a fad that’s going away anytime soon. In fact a recent survey from InformationWeek analytics showed that 46 percent of IT business executives are likely to use SaaS software, will absolutely use it, or will continue to use it in 2010. This is a significant 31% increase over last year.
What has changed that has made the SaaS model more acceptable to a growing number of business executives?
Are you a truck driver looking for work as a fleet manager or operator? You’re not alone: on one truck recruitment website alone, more than 212,000 completed truck driver applications sit on their database!
Don’t despair! Just because the job market is competitive, doesn’t mean employment is out of reach. You’re just a couple of strategic moves away from landing your ideal trucking job.
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The Future of Freight
Sep
Flash forward five years, and the trucking industry will be a very different beast to what it is today.
“The big carriers are going to get bigger and fewer,” confirms Duff Swain, president of consulting firm Trincon Group, “while the smaller carriers need to get smarter and more niche-driven.”
Swain delivered this news at a recent conference, where he pointed out what most of us already know: the global economic downturn has not only forced us to rethink the way we do business today, but it’s also forced us to re-evaluate how we’ll operate in the future.
According to American Trucking Association (ATA) President Bill Graves, the main concern carriers face today is the increasing influence of the federal Government. Read more »
