Rand McNally Launches Next Generation E-Log and Fleet Management Device
The DC 200 comes in both matte silver and champagne gold colors. The light on top changes color to indicate different functions. Green means it’s connected to the app. Blue indicates an over-the-air software update is happening. It flashes red and green when booting up. Photo: Deborah Lockridge.
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The DC 200 comes in both matte silver and champagne gold colors. The light on top changes color to indicate different functions. Green means it’s connected to the app. Blue indicates an over-the-air software update is happening. It flashes red and green when booting up. Photo: Deborah Lockridge.
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Rand McNally unveiled a sleek, new electronic logging and fleet management device with cellular connectivity at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference & Exhibition.
Available later this year, the DC 200 is designed to meet the needs of small- and medium-sized fleets looking to use existing Android devices.
“The DC 200 was designed for small- and medium-sized fleets – as well as larger fleets – looking for a cost-effective ELD plus fleet management tools that are increasingly critical to the industry,” explained Stephen Fletcher, CEO of Rand McNally. “The multi-mode cell modem in the device enables fleet managers to track their trucks in near real-time as well as message drivers.”
The DC 200 is part of Rand McNally’s DriverConnect ecosystem. So is the Bluetooth plug-and-play ELD 50 introduced earlier this year for owner-operators and professional drivers.
“The beauty of it is a small fleet owner who has both employee and owner-operator drivers can mix and match — it goes through the same back end” as the ELD 50, said Ravi Kodavarti, director of commercial transportation products at Rand McNally.
The low-profile, 5-inch long device (which comes in two different colors) sits on the dash and plugs into a truck’s diagnostic port via a single Y cable. The device works with both 6- and 9-pin, type 1 and type 2 ports. Through a Bluetooth and proprietary Wi-Fi connection, the device sends driving data to the free Rand McNally DriverConnect app, where drivers can view current hours of service logs as well as DVIR documents. The DC 200 …Read the rest of this story
