Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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34 commercial carrier journal | june 2017 technology • Digi International, a provider of machine-to-ma- chine and Internet of Things connectivity products and services, introduced Digi SafeTemps, designed to provide precise and continuous visibility using wireless monitors that automatically generate temperature alerts and reports of perishable goods to meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Safety Modernization Act requirements. Digi SafeTemps monitors three temperature zones: frozen, refrigerated and ambient temperature. • Help Inc. announced that its PrePass weigh station bypass and electronic screening technology now is available at two North Dakota weigh stations, in Mooreton and Williston. The North Dakota Highway Patrol also will deploy mobile PrePass equipment around the state, the 33rd to offer the service. • The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission approved the toll road's participation in the Drivewyze Driver Safety Notifications program, a free add-on service integrated with the company's PreClear weigh-station bypass application. Drivers of trucks equipped with Drivewyze Connected Truck services now receive in- cab safety notifications when approaching 26 curves and ramps on the Turnpike where advisory speeds are less than the posted speed. • Vigillo, a provider of real-time data for analyzing com - mercial driver and motor carrier safety performance, announced that Roadside Resume – its solution designed to provide a comprehensive driver safety, compliance and risk profile – now is integrated with SambaSafety's DriverMonitor driver risk management solution, a product suite designed to provide real-time reporting, increased alert frequency and more efficient driver roster maintenance. • Aljex Software, a provider of web-based transpor- tation management software for freight brokers, announced an integration with SaferWatch, a motor carrier risk management service. When a third-party logistics broker adds a new carrier within Aljex, the Saf- erWatch integration imports the carrier's information and provides a risk-assessment score formatted to be intuitive and easy to understand. • MacroPoint, provider of a freight visibility platform that uses drivers' cell phones to give shippers and 3PL companies real-time visibility into load status, and Ban- yan Technology announced a partnership to expand the MacroPoint platform to include less-than-truck- load carriers using Banyan's live carrier and application program interface connectivity. • MacroPoint announced that Werner Enterprises (CCJ Top 250, No. 11) will implement its freight visibility platform for its North American logistics operations. Werner Logistics manages more than 240,000 freight shipments for partner carriers each year and will use MacroPoint's predictive analytics, custom alerts and real-time tracking. INBRIEF SmartDrive adds multicamera triggering S martDrive, a provider of driving performance systems, announced new multicamera triggering capabilities for SmartDrive 360 based on high-risk maneuvers. SmartDrive 360 is the company's solution that allows fleets to deploy up to four additional cameras around the vehicle. e videos can be offloaded in minutes and, in most cases, reviewed by an expert driving analyst within one hour, according to the company. When a vehicle with SmartDrive 360 experiences a risky maneuver such as a swerve, U-turn or high impact/collision, or when the driver initiates a manual recording, video is captured from all four cameras. e video then is offloaded automatically from the SmartRecorder, along with the in-cab and forward-facing camera views. Previously, these videos were available only on-demand. Now, the im- mediacy of these videos allows fleets to get expanded insight on those incidents where it matters most, said Steve Mitgang, SmartDrive's chief executive officer. – Aaron Huff Comdata develops mobile Comchek payments system C omdata announced a new digital payments system, Comchek Mobile, designed to make the company's Comchek Express money transfer system a PayPal-like system for sending and receiving elec- tronic funds. Shippers, brokers and carriers typically have used the Comchek Express system to send unique codes to drivers to exchange for cash at locations in Comdata's proprietary merchant network. With Comchek Mo- bile, funds can be transferred directly between parties by using IDs. A freight broker or carrier can issue a cash advance or payroll settlement to a driver by using the driver's unique Comchek Mobile ID. Meanwhile, a driver can use the Comchek Mobile app on his smartphone to pay for over-the-road expenses by entering the ID of a lumper or merchant into the smartphone app. ere is no fee to transfer funds to other Comchek Mobile users with an ID. A broker, carrier or driver also can use Comchek Mobile to generate an Express code that the recipient can take to a merchant in Comdata's network and exchange for cash. e same fee structure for Comchek Express would apply. – Aaron Huff SmartDrive 360 is the company's solution that allows fleets to deploy up to four additional cameras around the vehicle. Comdata Mobile users can send, receive and access funds via their Comdata Card and smartphone app.