Efficiency Starts With Spec’ing

Efficiency Starts With Spec’ing

Fuel efficiency starts with the new truck ordering process

I recently saw a press release about an online tool from Mack that allows fleets to play “what if” with a variety of components on a truck to see their impact on fuel efficiency.

I know other truck makers have something similar, but this particular tool was in the news recently. It got me thinking about the importance of spec'ing in the fuel efficiency equation.

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MiX Telematics Announces Free Add-On

MiX Telematics, a global provider of fleet and mobile asset management solutions, announced a new, free add-on to its MiX Fleet Manager solution: MiX Insight Agility.

The new solution creates a data cube that's accessible via Microsoft Excel and automatically updated with fresh fleet data. By enabling fleet managers to pull together multiple data sources in one place, MiX Insight Agility helps:

Easily create and customize reports, graphs, and dashboards.Explore their data in new ways, to find deeper, actionable insights that help further improve safety and efficiency.Create more compelling reports that colleagues will read and understandSave hours of time in compiling reports each month.

“MiX customers asked for more ways to analyze their fleet data, and we delivered,” said Skip Kinford, president and CEO at MiX Telematics Americas. “Feedback on MiX Insight Agility from our fleet customers around the world has been enormously positive, with customers reporting that it saves their teams hours of work each month.”

To learn more about MiX solutions, including MiX Fleet Manager and MiX Insight Agility, visit www.mixtelematics.com.

MiX Telematics Launches MiX Fleet Manager

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TomTom delivers truck-specific navigation to North America

DALLAS. -TomTom, a global provider of navigation devices, has now created a GPS designed for professional truckers in North America. The TomTom TRUCKER 600 features accurate, vehicle-relevant navigation, map updates and traffic analysis— for the lifetime of the device—all in one package, as company representatives demonstrated at the Great American Trucking Show here.

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Speed limiter proposal: 6 slides on the basics

The DOT has packed a lot of information in its 118-page proposal to require speed limiting devices heavy-duty vehicles. Here we highlight some of the basics: the cost-benefit analyses on the three suggested speed settings, the requirements for new trucks, the possibility of requiring older trucks to be retrofit, and the proposed penalties for non-compliance.

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