Trans-Border Paper Carrier Adopts PeopleNet Canada's Onboard Computing System
PeopleNet technology enhances Flex-Mor's driver incentive program
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario - March 7, 2005 - PeopleNet Canada, the leading provider of onboard computing and mobile communications systems to the transportation industry, today announced that Flex-Mor Industries, a Bolton, Ontario-based truckload carrier, has equipped its fleet with PeopleNet's onboard computing and mobile communications system.
Operating 60 power units, Flex-Mor operates primarily within a 750-mile radius of its Canadian base hauling primarily paper products into the United States.
"We've spent a large percentage of our 25 years in business operating without onboard communications," according to the company's president, Sheldon Black. "Before PeopleNet, there was no satisfactory return on investment from satellite communications. That technology alone wasn't going to put more money in the hands of our drivers. It was just another way to communicate."
What changed his mind about mobile communications? "PeopleNet went beyond tracking and provided us with the instantaneous capture of the information we needed to reward the drivers that were doing a good job," he explained. "We were able to tie the performance data directly into our incentive program and download the information every Monday morning." Previously, drivers had to wait for weeks for the data to be pulled from the units and bonuses to be calculated, essentially rendering the incentive program ineffectual.
Since adopting PerformX, PeopleNet's onboard feature that tracks performance data in real time, Black reports that his company's overspeed has dropped 50 percent and long idling has been reduced by 65 percent from baselines established prior to installation of the PeopleNet technology.
"Savings resulting from the reduction in my long idle is going a long way toward funding the entire technology deployment," he boasts. "We're saving money from fuel that is not being burnt and by reducing the extra wear and tear on our engines that results from idling. But what makes me feel really good is the environmental benefit. Every gallon we don't burn is something that is not coming out of the ground."
The PeopleNet system has become the standard for GPS-based location tracking, two-way voice and data communications, electronic driver logs, and Internet-based fleet business tools to provide consistent, reliable communication between business owners, dispatchers, drivers and shippers.
Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, with U.S. headquarters in Minneapolis, PeopleNet is the fastest-growing provider of Internet-based onboard computing and mobile communications systems to the transportation industry, including truckload, LTL, private, and service fleets. The company serves several Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and Canada and has signed more than 1,000 customers since our inception more than 11 years ago.
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