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- GeoLogic Offers Digital Option From Cingular
- Ohio Gets EPA Grant to Reduce Truck Idling
- Mack to Offer Bendix Package to Improve Stability
- Ohio Gets EPA Grant to Reduce Truck Idling
GeoLogic Offers Digital Option From Cingular
GeoLogic Solutions said its customers now have Cingular Wireless' nationwide digital wireless data network as an additional communications option for users of its MobileMax mobile communications and fleet management system.GeoLogic said the move will give its MobileMax customers expanded terrestrial wireless coverage and increased data capabilities such as wireless downloads of mobile software.
The carrier is using Cingular's General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network, which is based on GSM technology, a standard for wireless communications, GeoLogic said. Transport Topics
Ohio Gets EPA Grant to Reduce Truck Idling
The Ohio Department of Development said it has received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help pay for a truck-stop idle-reduction electrification program.“We are pleased that EPA has provided Ohio with the funding necessary to demonstrate to truck drivers the benefits that TSE [truck stop electrification] can provide,” Lt. Governor Bruce Johnson (R), who also serves as development department’s director, said in a statement.
A department spokeswoman told the Toledo Blade newspaper that state officials hope to set up at least one demonstration site each, if not more, for the shore-power and IdleAire anti-idling systems.
It expects to issue requests for proposals from vendors by January, with a goal of starting construction in the spring and beginning operations in early 2007, the spokeswoman told the paper. Transport Topics
Mack to Offer Bendix Package to Improve Stability
Mack Trucks said Thursday it was offering Bendix brake packages for advanced vehicle stability on its highway trucks.The system works by selectively applying the brakes on individual wheel ends, depending on driving conditions, vehicle speed and other inputs from onboard sensors, Mack said in a statement.
The system also monitors inputs from sensors and applies all available brakes to rapidly reduce rollover potential when turning, including high friction conditions involving curves, sudden lane changes and obstacle avoidance maneuvers. Studies have shown that rollover contributes to more than half of truck driver accident fatalities.
“This system provides motorists and truckers with a higher level of protection against the possibility of a [truck] rollover or jackknife,” said Tom Kelly, Mack’s vice president of marketing.
Kelly said Mack intends to soon offer Bendix ABS-6 Advanced with ESP on its vocational vehicles as well. Transport Topics
