Technology Briefs - June 2 - June 7
The Latest Headlines:
- Loadboard.com to Join TIA Program
- Report: Cheaters Costing Pa. Turnpike Commission
- U.S. Xpress Extends Contract With Qualcomm
- Report: Cheaters Costing Pa. Turnpike Commission
Loadboard.com to Join TIA Program
The Transportation Intermediaries Association said June 1 that load-matching Web site 123Loadboard.com would abide by the provisions of the association’s Platinum Performance Program.TIA represents freight brokers, forwarders and third-party logistics companies and markets P3 as a designation to assure shippers of a broker’s adherence to ethical standards. TIA President Robert Voltmann has compared P3 to “the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.”
TIA said 123Loadboard would join other freight-matching services including Getloaded.com, Keeploaded.com, the Internet TruckStop, TransCore Commercial Services and TransCore Link Logistics, which already display the P3 logo. Transport Topics
Report: Cheaters Costing Pa. Turnpike Commission
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is losing at least $700,000 a year due to driving blowing through automated toll booths in western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.The commission does not use video surveillance on the Beaver Valley Expressway, the Greensburg Bypass and the Mon-Fayette Expressway, despite signs warning motorists of their use in recording license plates or snapping pictures of fare dodgers, the article said.
And state police do little enforcement of fare evasions because speeding gets top priority, fare evasions are difficult to prove and district justices don't like to focus on such small cases, the Post-Gazette said. Transport Topics
U.S. Xpress Extends Contract With Qualcomm
Qualcomm Inc. said in a statement that U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc. had extended its contract to continue using the OmniTracs mobile communications system in its trucking fleet.In addition, the truckload carrier has joined Qualcomm's untethered trailer-tracking product direction council, a group formed to help provide feedback about Qualcomm products.
U.S. Xpress is ranked No. 23 on the Transport Topics 100 list of the largest U.S. and Candian trucking companies. Transport Topics
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