Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | AUGUST 2016 37 technology LEARN MORE AND FIND A LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR AT MINIMIZER.COM OR 800-248-3855 MINIMIZER POLY PRODUCTS • TESTED AND TORTURED TM • DAILY BY TRUCKERS FOR TRUCKERS TESTED AND TORTURED TIRE BENCH TOOL BOXES FENDERS TOOL BENCH TIRE MASK Times change. So should you. NAILED IT NICE TRY Basic seat with standard suspension Minimizer seat with Long Haul suspension #RespectTheDriver McLeod updates LoadMaster, PowerBroker; adds new BI tool M cLeod Software released Ver- sion 16.1 of its LoadMaster and PowerBroker enterprise software systems for asset and nonasset transportation companies. The highlight is McLeod IQ, a new data warehouse and business intel- ligence product. McLeod IQ is designed to provide insight into the key indicators of its customers' businesses by enabling them to drill down, measure and report on data in new ways using simple tools like Microsoft Excel Pivot tables. McLeod IQ uses the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack to create a multidimensional cube that shows metrics against any type of data such as customer, location or driver. The PowerBroker system's new Car- rier Relationship Management module works in a similar way to McLeod's Customer Relationship Management and is designed to allow a broker to focus on developing carrier relationships. McLeod's new LogixSolutions Car- rier Onboarding process is designed to deliver carrier qualifi cation and manage- ment in a single paperless tool within PowerBroker. The solution uses an elec- tronic form and is driven by a detailed workfl ow to automate the evaluation of prospective carriers. With LoadMaster's fuel interface with electronic payment provider EFS, motor carriers now can control the amount of fuel and related products purchased at out-of-network fuel stops. An hours-of-service integration op- tion, now available through Teletrac's Fleet Director and RydeSmart applica- tions, includes the retrieval of hours data from Teletrac into LoadMaster for near real-time updates. Also now included in LoadMaster are integrations with the WebTech Wire- less Quadrant mobile platform. With Omnitracs XRS, new features include the ability to capture images and electronic signatures. An interface with Omnitracs Enterprise Systems now includes Media Manager integration to send and receive images and document types in the cab. A LoadMaster interface with Pegasus TransTech's Transfl o Mobile+ application provides automated sending of next- dispatch assignments for delivery to the driver's mobile device. – Aaron Huff Barton Logistics uses McLeod Software's business intelligence tool to predict the ELD mandate's impact on its tra c lanes.