Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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38 commercial carrier journal | february 2018 technology ITI adds ELD training course to Pro-Tread curriculum I nstructional Technologies Inc., a provider of online train- ing systems for the transportation industry, has created an "Introduction to Electronic Logging Devices" course that covers the basics of ELDs for drivers and allows carriers to customize the training to meet company-specific needs. "Understanding the basics of using ELDs is important for all drivers," said Nathan Stahlman, ITI chief operating officer. Stahlman said the new course "helps ease the stress of using this new technology, saving drivers time and reducing frustration." e course provides drivers with information on logging in and out of an ELD, different duty statuses, ELD responsibilities and reasons for keeping an electronic log. By using ITI's Sentix platform for managing training, carriers can host ELD supplier training videos as Pro-Tread courses and add quizzes and sections about standard company operating procedures. ITI also offers two hours-of-service training programs that are updated as new rules and regulations go into effect. – Aaron Huff Trucker Path adds Parking Prediction to app T rucker Path, a provider of mobile applications used by the trucking industry, added a Parking Prediction feature to its trip planning app. Parking Prediction compiles four years of data and more than one million monthly community-powered parking updates. With the updates, the feature provides users a percentage of parking spots available at a location during a given period of time. e percentage is ac- companied by a color coding of Red, indicating a range of time when parking is full at a loca- tion; Green, indicating when there are plenty of spots available; or Yellow, indicating when there are some spots available. Users of the crowd-sourced app have made over 25 million truck parking updates, which are displayed in real time to the rest of the community if there are spots available at over 11,000 locations, including over 6,000 truck stops, both chain and independently owned. e Trucker Path app has more than 270,000 total truck parking spots in its database. – Aaron Huff Fairbanks Scales updates instrument for ground scales F airbanks Scales' FB2550 instrument for ground scales is designed with faster processing power, an updated operating system and more memory. Up to five FB2550 instruments can be networked to share trans- actional data from up to eight scale platforms. An integrated web utility provides technicians with access to all menu options that include configuration and calibration functions using a con- nected laptop or tablet. Users of the FB2550 can email transactional data or trouble codes automatically to help improve access and provide faster response times. Daily transaction data can be exported automatically to a shared user-defined network folder, and load cell diagnostics data can be viewed, printed, exported and emailed. Also standard on the FB2550 is short- or long-platform Axlematic soware designed to enable customers to secure axle weights with total vehicle weight to ensure compliance with U.S. Department of Transporta- tion requirements. New IP camera interface capabilities round out the new features. – Aaron Huff Fairbanks Scales' FB2550 instrument for ground scales is designed with faster processing power, an updated operating system and more memory. The course provides drivers with information on logging in and out of an ELD, different duty statuses, ELD responsibilities and reasons to keep a log. The Trucker Path Parking Prediction app has more than 270,000 total truck parking spots in its database.