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- Freightliner, Ametek Partner on New High-Tech Dashboard
- Velocity Express Launches 'Enhanced' Web Site
- Florida Seaport Rolls Out Automated Security System
- Velocity Express Launches 'Enhanced' Web Site
Freightliner, Ametek Partner on New High-Tech Dashboard
Ametek Dixson said Monday that it has been tabbed by Freightliner LLC to provide a new, high-tech dashboard display.The "next-generation instrumentation"-based system will provide digital displays to drivers of key performance data like fuel economy and fluid levels as well as monitoring other truck systems, the company said.
The dashboard designed by Ametek would provide readouts of speed, engine rotations, air pressure, water and oil pressure, fuel-level and power usage, the company said. Transport Topics
Velocity Express Launches 'Enhanced' Web Site
Velocity Express Corp. said Monday that it has launched a new, "enhanced" corporate Web site to provide more ordering, tracking and reporting options to its customers.The new site, in addition to offering more ordering and tracking data, allows customers to choose the format most useful to them, either in an Excel document, a Portable Document File (PDF) or a comma separated file.
Based in Minneapolis, Velocity Express is ranked No. 60 on the 2002 Transport Topics 100 listing of the largest trucking companies in the United States and Canada. Transport Topics
(Click here for the full press release.)
Florida Seaport Rolls Out Automated Security System
Guardian Solutions said Monday that it has sold a GuardianWATCH automated video surveillance system to Port Manatee, the fifth-largest port in Florida.The system, when fully operational, will use the port’s existing cameras to monitor the port for landside and seaside threats, the company said.
Guardian said its system is a step ahead of current video surveillance systems be-cause it uses computers for real-time analysis. Currently, most video systems are used as evidence after an incident, the company said.
The computer in the system can detect abnormal activity using motion sensors inside and outside and in adverse weather conditions, the company said. GuardianWATCH, according to the company, can track as many as 25 intruders and can give precise coordinates on intruders’ locations. Transport Topics
(Click here for the full press release.)
