Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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26 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | AUGUST 2015 • Daimler Trucks North America, maker of Freightliner trucks and Detroit engines, and Zonar Systems announced that DTNA is now a minority investor in Zonar. The long-term strategic partnership aims to help DTNA and Zonar achieve the companies' shared vision of optimal transportation logistics through intelligent connectivity. Zonar will continue to operate independently of DTNA, with Martin Daum, chief executive officer of DTNA, becoming a member of its board of directors. • International Trucks now offers a telematics credit that includes hardware and a two-year data plan from one of several approved integrated telematics providers at no extra cost. Hardware and data from other telemat - ics service provider partners will be covered partially by the program. The credit bundle is available to customers buying directly from International dealers. • International Trucks started production of its first WorkStar vocational trucks powered by the Cummins ISB6.7 engine. Both the WorkStar and the DuraStar medium-duty truck offer the ISB6.7 as an option, rated up to 325 horsepower and 750 lb.-ft. torque, with higher ratings specifically for fire and emer - gency applications. Other WorkStar engine options include Navistar's own 9.3-liter and 13-liter offerings. • Mack Trucks enhanced its Uptime solutions by expanding its partnered services offering designed to enable faster, more accurate diagnostics and improved communication so customers can get their vehicles back on the road quicker. The improved diagnostics results from the integration of Mack ASIST, Mack's Web-based fleet service management platform developed by Decisiv, with Truck Diagnostics System, a JPRO-based software solution from Mack's partner Noregon that di - agnoses the engine, transmission, aftertreat- ment systems and all vendor components. • Kenworth Truck Co.'s 76-inch mid-roof sleeper now is available for order with the T680 and T880. The sleeper offers 6½ feet of headroom and is optimized for weight-con - scious liquid bulk tankers and flatbed haulers. Compared to Kenworth's 76-inch high-roof sleeper, the mid-roof version offers less aerodynamic drag and a 100-pound weight savings for additional payload capacity. • Peterbilt's 58-inch sleeper – suited for weight-conscious short- and regional-haul applications such as tanker and flatbed operations – now is available for order. The sleeper, available for the on-highway Model Continued on page 28 INBRIEF S temco announced DataLogger, a fuel-efficiency testing technol- ogy for its TrailerTail aerodynamic equipment. The real-world test is de- signed to provide fleets with a quick, precise and inexpensive method of testing the fuel efficiency of TrailerTail technology using a fleet's own truck, trailer and driver in less than four hours. The DataLogger plugs into the tractor's J1939 diagnostics port and accesses en- gine data. A Stemco field technician conducts a controlled test with the fleet's truck, trailer and driver. Stemco engineers then analyze the data to break down how much fuel the TrailerTail system will save that specific fleet. Stemco said the technology's testing protocol and filtering algorithm were devel- oped to provide a customized data stream that isolates the aerodynamic variables while minimizing the disruptive effect that inconsistent wind, temperature and traffic can have when comparing different test runs to measure fuel economy improvements. Stemco said more than a dozen fleets have tested TrailerTail using the palm-sized DataLogger, with results consistently equating to an average improvement of 0.44 mpg. These results also are consistent with fuel savings reported from fleetwide TrailerTail deployments, according to the company. – Jack Roberts H ERE, a provider of mapping, navigation and location services, was selected by Finland traffic agen- cies to lead Coop, a pilot project to enable vehicles to communicate safety hazards to others on the road. Coop, which will start in 2016, intends to assess the capability of cur- rent and emerging mobile network and location cloud technologies in supporting the timely communica- tion of critical safety information, such as black ice, sudden traffic buildup or an accident. In the pilot's first phase, which will test the proposed technology architecture's capability and technical maturity, drivers voluntarily will share notifications about safety hazards and changing road conditions, initially via a smartphone. The aim is that the architecture later also would support low-latency cloud-based communi- cation of data generated by a vehicle's onboard sensors and the surrounding road infrastructure to other vehicles and smart devices on the road. The pilot's second phase begins in the first half of 2016 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2017. – Jack Roberts Stemco develops TrailerTail fuel efficiency test Finland pilot project to explore connected vehicles, roadways Stemco's DataLogger test is designed to provide eets with a quick, precise and inex- pensive method of testing the fuel eciency of TrailerTail technology. HERE's Coop pilot project in Finland is designed to enable vehicles to communicate safety hazards to others on the road.