Honeywell Connected Freight Monitors Valuable Goods in Transit

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Honeywell has launched the Connected Freight solution, a logistics technology that provides real-time information about the location and condition of critical freight in transit.

Connected Freight is designed to give shippers and logistics companies the ability to monitor high-value and perishable shipments to prevent damage or loss. The technology was developed in collaboration with Intel and three third-party logistics companies: DHL, Expeditors, and Kuehne + Nagel.

"Honeywell is developing a range of Connected Supply Chain solutions that leverage technology and data to make supply chains more efficient and better able to adapt to rapid change," said Taylor Smith, president of Honeywell's Workflow Solutions business. "For shippers, logistics providers, retailers and others faced with a host of costly freight challenges, such as theft, damage, spoilage and delays, this convenient cloud-based solution provides customers with detailed analytics in order to plan, anticipate and react immediately to incidents that occur during shipment."

The Connected Freight solution consists of sensor tags that sense a range of environmental conditions, such as temperature and vibration. The tags can be attached to pallets or individual packages. The sensor data is then captured by a mobile gateway placed inside a truck or shipping container and transmitted over a cellular network to a cloud-based platform.

Users can set alerts based on temperature, shock, tilt, humidity, pressure, and intrusion detection. It can alert manufacturers of high-value or highly sensitive technology if the equipment has been damaged while being loaded or unloaded, or if it may have been stolen. The cloud can store data for compliance and audit needs and provide predictive and reactive analysis, such as which routes to avoid.

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HDT’s Day At The Races

The Bandit Series is looking to bring Big Rig Racing back to America. And on the series' permier sponsors, Minimizer, invited HDT to attend the thrid race on the circuit as their guest at the Montgomery Motor Speedway, just outside Mongomery, AL. Minimizer chief visionary officer, Craig Kruckeburg, likes to take his turn behind the wheel, and provided fans with some excitment when a mix-up in turn four put his Ford tractor into the wall. But no one was hurt and a good time was had by all!

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Trucking Moves America Forward Unveils Mascot, Launches Name Contest

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As part of its efforts to improve the trucking industry's image, Trucking Moves America Forward unveiled a mascot, a big-eyed cartoon truck wearing a trucker hat, and asked the industry to name it.

Broadcasting live on Facebook from the Pilot Flying J travel center in Knoxville, Tennessee, TMAF co-chair and American Trucking Associations Chairman Kevin Burch pointed out that the movement has come a long way in the past few years.

“Our mission was to create a long-term, industry-wide movement that creates a positive image of our industry,” he said, whether that be union or non-union drivers, owner-operators or fleets, suppliers, and customers.

“If we could all come together with a simple message: We are safe and we have the data to prove it. We are essential … we care about environmental issues … and it's a great career option.”

Last summer, Burch said, at the National Truck Driving Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, he was impressed by their duck mascot.

“It was big and it was impressive. I watched the crowds, the kids, the parents, the significant others that were at that convention center take awe of this mascot. It was an attention grabber. As I wear this ‘I love trucks' button I've worn for years, it's an attention grabber. I thought, ‘TMAF needs a mascot. We need to get an attention grabber.'”

But the mascot needs a name. So TMAF is asking for name ideas to be sent to [email protected]. For the next month, they will collect the names, then come up with a list of finalists, and put it to a vote. Keep an eye on the Facebook page: Facebook.com/TruckingFWD for more.

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“We take the guesswork out of finding and booking freight, which is often the most stressful part of a driver's day,” the company stated. “What used to take several hours and multiple phone calls can now be achieved with the touch of a button.”

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