Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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commercial carrier journal | march 2017 27 Apps are smartphone/ tablet must-haves for the modern professional driver. JASON CANNON is Equipment Editor of Commercial Carrier Journal. E-mail jcannon@randallreilly.com or call (205) 248-1175. are carrying around some type of smartphone, and 45 percent own a tablet. According to Mobidata, the average American blows through almost 2 gigabytes of data every month (my daughter is above aver- age). That number jumps more than three times if you account for Wi-Fi usage. Olga Yashkova, Frost & Sullivan test and measurement program manager, said more than 55 percent of all mobile data is expected to be offloaded to Wi-Fi networks in 2017, and about 60 percent in 2018. We've already seen smartphones and tablets feature heavily in the truck cab, and it's only going to become more commonplace. We're sending mountains of data in a million different directions every day, with everything from driver logs to diagnostics and freight brokering routed through a personal device that offers a lot of flexibility versus a fixed-mount company-owned gadget. Social and entertainment aside, apps for weather, navigation, truck parking, trip planning, document management and load boards are smartphone/tablet must-haves for the modern professional driver. Frost & Sullivan is banking on an even healthier technology "app"-etite (see what I did there?) as more and more fleets migrate toward paperless paper trails. The move away from paper-based reporting isn't exactly a new in- dustry trend, but the shift toward an on-highway business that's heavi- ly supported by app-based wireless technology is certainly ongoing. If Chevy owners alone managed to burn through 4,220 terabytes of data by simply turning their vehicles into rolling Wi-Fi hotspots, imagine the capacity more than 3.5 million professional truck drivers will need as they burn through data with electronic logging devices, asset tracking and route planning. Apps generally are inexpensive, and most drivers already are versed in how to use the smartphones of their choosing. All they'll have to do is make sure the battery is charged. WANT MORE EQUIPMENT NEWS? Scan the barcode to sign up for the CCJ Equipment Weekly e-mail newsletter or go to www.goo.gl/Ph9JK. OEM engines seizing more market share T he vertical integration of powertrains quickly has made its impact on truck- ing, shiing the balance of power among engine makers and truck makers over the last five model years. Statistics compiled by Dave Kalvelage, manager of IT and database services for MacKay and Co., and presented at Heavy Duty Aermarket Week in Las Vegas, show Detroit, Volvo and Paccar products eating market share dropped by Interna- tional and Cummins. From 2005 to 2015, 19 points were put up for grabs. Cummins went from a 39 percent share to 36 percent, while Inter- national slid from 13 percent to 4 percent. Mack shed 1 percent – from 9 percent to 8 percent. Caterpillar's exit from the market put another 4 percent on the table. Mer- cedes Benz-branded engines went from 3 percent to 1 percent. Paccar was the big winner over those 10 model years, snapping up 9 percent – up from 2 percent to 11 percent. Next was Volvo, up from 6 percent to 11 percent, while Detroit grew its share from 24 percent to 29 percent. Freightliner went from 32 percent to 38 percent, while Kenworth also nabbed a 4 per- cent gain, up from 11 percent to 15 percent. Volvo jumped from 9 percent to 12 percent, and Peterbilt jumped from 12 percent to 13 percent. ose four brands snapped up the 13 per- cent lost by International and 1 percent from Mack Trucks. – Jason Cannon Paccar was the big winner over those five model years, snapping up 9 percent – up from 2 percent to 11 percent.