There is new technology out there that is being sold to trucking companies and fleets. NavStar Technologies brought technology here to the United States. Here is their opportunity to break into our market with the newly mandated regulation for an electronic on board recorder, or as it is called, the EOBR.
Called the NSTRAK Vehicle Asset Tracker System. It is to be introduced here in the United States around October of 2010. NavStar’s chairman of the Board of Directors, N. Douglas Pritt, stated:
“This is a huge opportunity that we have been following closely for the past several months. It is time for us to officially enter into the market with a hardware/software solution what will prove to be substantially more cost effective than current products being discussed.”
With government rulings that truck drivers need to limit their hours, the EOBR monitors their time on the road. In fact, there are some companies in the United States that the US Federal Government regulates to verify that they have a monitor that is electronic instead of paper logs that the trucking industry has used for decades.
NavStar’s technology can now do that for the trucking industry and fleets.
NavStar brags that their product “delivers accurate, real-time information on the location and activities of the fleet vehicles. It enables companies to gain deeper insight into their daily field operations, and take actions to increase profits and be more competitive.”
NavStar’s main market is the trucking and delivery industries. They also sell GPS systems to consumer and commercial markets here in the United States as well as the international customers.
http://satellite.tmcnet.com/topics/satellite/articles/98777-navstar-technologies-enters-us-trucking-industry-mandate-eobr.htm
C.R. England Trucking Company has just announced that they released the “TripPak InCab Scanning” for their drivers. This means that CR England truck drivers can now scan paperwork without getting out of their cab. All a truck driver needs is an internet access and a laptop. That’s it! Then the driver buys the scanner from $140.00 to $150.00, depending on where they purchase it.