Omnitracs Offering Two New Fleet Management Solutions


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Omnitracs Fleet Telematics empowers logistics and short-haul fleets with real-time asset tracking, driver safety alerts, ELD compliance, route planning, Bluetooth diagnostics, and data-driven visibility to cut fuel, maintenance, and downtime costs.

 

Key Points

A telematics and compliance suite delivering real-time tracking, safety alerts, ELD, and routing for fleets of any size.

✅ Real-time asset tracking with accelerometer-based event detection

✅ ELD, HOS, DVIR, and IFTA compliance via mobile devices

✅ Route planning, dispatch, and driver safety alerts

 

DALLAS — Omnitracs, a global provider of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies, has announced that two flagship solutions for scalable, easy-to-deploy telematics and compliance have new capabilities that can now benefit a wider number of industries using a variety of vehicle classes, including emerging electric tractors across agriculture and other sectors, to allow fleets of all sizes to realize greater benefits from real-time asset tracking and data-based fleet visibility.

Geared especially toward short-haul fleets, Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics provides company fleet managers a big picture view that allows them to optimize fuel consumption, reduce maintenance costs, maximize productivity and identify under-utilized assets, reducing costs associated with out-of-service vehicles by up to 25 percent, according to Kevin Haugh, chief strategy and product officer.

Its unique accelerometer technology offers highly sensitive detection of maneuvers in any direction, including high speed, harsh breaking, rapid acceleration, and even backing into a loading dock, he said.

In-cab alarms alert drivers to risky driving behaviors, providing them with real-time feedback that allows them to immediately address the practices that put them at risk.

Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics is offered as a bundle that includes hardware, training, and data. Once fleets are ready for even more productivity, Omnitracs provides seamless integration to Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics with Omnitracs Roadnet Anywhere, its industry leading route planning, dispatching, and delivery solution that mirrors innovations in smart grid solutions for utility field operations, as well.

For companies and carriers with smaller fleets looking to combine both telematics and compliance solutions, the Omnitracs XRS platform helps level the playing field by enabling the use of smartphones and tablets to quickly and inexpensively equip their fleets with the applications and data previously available only to the largest carriers, and smart city expansion in APAC underscores the ubiquity of connected infrastructure today, Haugh said.

The “plug-and-play” in-cab relay device provides diagnostic and positioning data via Bluetooth to the driver’s Android or Windows Mobile device, and can benefit from resilient fuel cell backup power options during infrastructure outages.

With the ability to leverage mobile technology, Haugh said the XRS compliance solution provides fleet managers with real-time intelligence and actionable customer analytics, while minimizing drivers’ time spent on tracking activities, adding that Omnitracs XRS offers customizable plans with add-on options for those with more complex performance and monitoring needs:

  • Support for both Hours of Service and non-HOS driver time tracking.
  • Automated, compliant driver vehicle inspection reports and international fuel tax agreement reporting.
  • Critical event reporting, trip management and fault monitoring.

“Often these solutions have been seen as being geared for only larger carriers that could deploy and support these critical intelligence-based decision-making tools,” Haugh said. “Omnitracs’ expanded telematics portfolio offers tailored plans and the simplicity of a single device for each vehicle. Now, telematics is accessible whether you’re a large carrier or foodservice business in need of compliance — or a small landscaping business in need of track and trace capabilities that can scale up when the company grows.”

Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics and Omnitracs XRS are customizable to any fleet size, and are available today.

 

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Key Points

Tesla's articulated battery-electric heavy-duty truck with autonomous tech to rival diesel and cut emissions.

✅ Unveil and test ride slated for Oct 26 in Hawthorne, CA

✅ Heavy-duty EV aims to challenge diesel rigs in freight

✅ Integrates autonomous and self-driving technologies

 

Tesla is likely to unveil its electric articulated transport truck in October, as rivals like Volvo Trucks expand electric ranges in Europe, chief executive Elon Musk said on Thursday.

The firm had previously said the vehicle would be released next month.

Last year Mr Musk expressed the company's desire to branch out beyond cars, alongside expectations for cheaper, more powerful batteries that could underpin future models.

The entrepreneur has excited the trucking industry with the prospect of a battery-powered, heavy duty vehicle that can compete with conventional diesels, spurring interest such as UPS pre-orders from major fleets.

Mr Musk said an "unveil and test ride" for the Tesla Semi truck was tentatively scheduled for 26 October in Hawthorne, California.

"Worth seeing this beast in person. It's unreal," he said in a tweet.

The US firm's ambitions for new electric vehicles, including a commercial lorry, were announced last year, with knock-on effects for the EV aftermarket as adoption grows.

The need to switch heavy-polluting vans and trucks to cleaner engines is growing, and launches like the all-electric Transit van underscore this shift, as countries around the world push to banish diesel vehicles.

Tesla has also been making strides in self-driving technology.

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Key Points

A Regina event promoting EV adoption, charging, range, and winter-ready performance with demos and expert guidance.

✅ EV range: 64-320 km per charge; winter thermal management.

✅ Tesla and Volkswagen conversions; seven-seat Model S showcased.

✅ Public test drives, charging info, and environmental benefits.

 

Crowds in Regina were revved up with excitement for electric cars this weekend, reflecting how they are a hot topic in places like southern Alberta across Western Canada.

On Saturday, Electric Mobility Canada hosted the 3rd annual national drive electric week event in the Queen City, while shows like Everything Electric return to Vancouver this season.

"It's something that's going on around the world right now, this week," said James Dennis, electric car enthusiast and event organizer. "It's to help bring awareness to electric vehicles, not only for a form of transportation but also to help clean up the environment."

This Volkswagon Beetle was redone to function as an electric vehicle.

Dennis said a common misconception is electric cars are not functional during Saskatchewan winters, even as regions like BC's Kootenay Region prioritize adoption.

"The thing people need to understand is these are electric vehicles, and you [have to] charge them. They warm like a block heater so it's always thermally managed," he said.

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Vehicles on display included a 200 Tesla Roadster, Volkswagon Beetle and a seven-passenger Tesla Model S, similar to those highlighted at the Quebec Electric Vehicle Show earlier this year.

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10 new electric vehicle fast-charging stations planned on Trans-Canada in N.B.

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Key Points

NB Power and Ottawa are installing Level 3 EV chargers on the Trans-Canada to cut range anxiety and emissions.

✅ 10 Level 3 fast chargers along the Trans-Canada by July

✅ NB Power will add Level 2 chargers beside each site

✅ Backed by $335k and $120M programs to cut EV emissions

 

Motorists in New Brunswick will see 10 new fast-charging stations installed this year along the Trans-Canada Highway as the result of a partnership between the federal government and NB Power.

Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced $335,000 to build the new station and said it was to help address "range anxiety."

"Some Canadians are hesitant to buy these cleaner vehicles because they fear that the infrastructure is not there, particularly where Labrador's infrastructure lags to support their choice to drive an electric vehicle," he said. "It's a fair point in a province where there's a high percentage of rural residents."

In partnering with NB Power and utilities elsewhere in Canada, including Newfoundland and Labrador's fast-charging network development, to build the proper infrastructure, the government hopes to instill in people — including would-be electric-vehicle owners in New Brunswick — the confidence that they can get from Point A to Point B driving one of these vehicles.

NB Power estimates there about about 100 electric vehicles in use in the province.

The federal government announced $120 million in similar infrastructure projects across Canada on Tuesday.

In addition to financing electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, the government will use the balance of the $120 million to help fund refuelling stations for alternative fuel vehicles and, it said in a release, "support technology demonstration projects" such as vehicle-to-grid integration pilots.

As LeBlanc noted Tuesday, the transportation sector generates almost 25 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions. More specifically, cars and trucks and commercial vehicles produce about three-quarters of the sector's emissions. Electric and alternative fuel vehicles — those that run on natural gas or hydrogen, for example — can considerably reduce these emissions.

 

A growing network

NB Power's Keith Cronkhite, senior vice-president of business development and strategic planning, said the new fast-charging corridor will become part of the utility's existing charging network for electric vehicles.

"We are confident it will help New Brunswickers make the switch from gas to electric vehicles and reduce that range anxiety," Cronkhite said.

"Encouraging more New Brunswickers to drive EVs [electric vehicles], supported by a rebate program, is an essential part of our plan to support the climate change action," Cronkhite said. "In New Brunswick, an electric vehicle owner can shrink their carbon footprint by approximately 80 per cent thanks to our renewable and non-emitting grid."

Currently, there are nine NB Power-branded charging stations across the province. Unlike those announced Tuesday, those are Level 2 chargers — or those for use by hybrid vehicles.

By comparison, the fast-charging (or Level 3) stations NB Power will install this year typically service entirely electric vehicles. Using those chargers, drivers will be able to recharge their EVs to approximately 80 per cent within 30 minutes.

NB Power hasn't decided where it will install the stations along the Trans-Canada or what it will charge drivers to use them, but is aiming to have all 10 in operation in July.

The utility will install Level 2 chargers beside each of the 10 new fast-charging stations "so that we can meet the needs of all New Brunswickers," Cronkhite said.

Altogether, there are some 50 charging stations in New Brunswick.

 

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