PeopleNet Sets Growth Records As Fleets Adopt Onboard Computing Solution

BOSTON - October 16, 2005 - Fueled by proven success with the g3 Onboard Computing system, PeopleNet, the leading provider of onboard computing and mobile communications systems to the nation's transportation industry, continued its torrid growth rate during 2005, the company announced at the American Trucking Associations' Annual Meeting and Exposition.

"We have earned a well deserved reputation for our tireless efforts to get close to our customers and to truly understand their needs," says John Sarto, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PeopleNet. "As a result of these relationships we have introduced new products and enhanced existing applications to provide solutions to our customers and potential customers. Today, PeopleNet enjoys the clout and the standing to provide an enhanced suite of leading-edge applications that can be tailored to help deliver optimal functionality and return on investment for a wide range of fleets."

PeopleNet now boasts a line-up of nearly 1,200 customers signed that have either converted from older on-board technology or have discovered the tailored mobile communications solutions developed by PeopleNet now provide tools and resources they can implement to optimize their specialized applications.
"We have signed more than 80 new customers so far this year that have been favorably impressed with our philosophy, our products, our support," Sarto says. We have set record order months for two out of the last three months and we are currently on pace to exceed 50 percent growth compared to 2004."
Sarto credits PeopleNet's new g3 platform for much of the success. "Fleets have embraced this new product because it represents a convergence of mobile communications, onboard computing and fleet management," he says.

"This next next-generation onboard computer exceeds customer expectations by providing multi-network, open, and smart access to help fleets multi-task and automate key processes across their operations. The barriers of bandwidth, memory, peripherals, applications and integration virtually gone away."

PeopleNet plans to continue to focus on switching deployed customers that operate older systems. Already companies such as Tankstar, Groendyke, Dedicated Logistics, Norsemen Trucking and Smithway Motor Express - that together operate nearly 4,000 on-board units - have converted from older, satellite-based technology.

Perhaps of equal importance, the PeopleNet list of new and converted customers signals a growing acceptance of mobile communications solutions in key industry markets and vocational segments that traditionally have been under-represented by on-board technologies, according to Sarto. "We continue to expand in new market segments," he says, including:

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Dedicated: New customers include Ruan, Dedicated Logistics, National Distributors and Cardinal Logistics
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Tanker/Bulk: New customers include Tankstar, Groendyke, and W. Smith Cartage.
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Less than-Truckload: New customers include Pitt-Ohio Express.
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Private Fleet where new customers include Andersen Windows and ConAgra Foods among others

Headquartered 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 1,200 customers since our inception 11 years ago.

For more information, contact: Brian McLaughlin, (888) 346-3486 ext. 211
bmclaughlin@peoplenetonline.com