Software Sales * USA - Trucking Firms Are Preparing for Economic Recovery
Beachwood,OH,USA -Transport Topics, by Dan Leone -8 Sept 2009: -- Technology vendors said sales of enterprise-level software have remained strong in 2009, propelled by carriers’ desire to cut costs now while preparing for the influx of new business that will accompany an economic recovery... In particular, “larger carriers, larger private fleets and larger logistics companies look at this year as an opportunity to invest in [information technology] infrastructure so that when the market recovers, they’re well-prepared to take advantage of it,” said David Wangler, president of TMW Systems, Beachwood, Ohio... Smaller carriers are not investing as much in technology as their large counterparts, he said, but fuel optimization software remains popular among all carriers... “The real hard data that we’ve got shows our carriers this year are saving . . . about 10 cents a gallon,” he said. That saving is net of discounts carriers may receive through agreements with truck-stop chains or other methods...
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