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Oct 22, 2015

TECHNO-TRUCKS WORLDWIDE * India's e-platform -- ** Ireland's: A Smartphone on wheels -- *** USA: Electronic logs

* Delhi / India - Mahindra’s SmartShift connects cargo owners with transporters

-- Mahindra & Mahindra has launched SmartShift, a platform that connects cargo owners with transporters. The platform lets users find transporters based on the cargo weight, size and other requirements, and negotiate and seal a deal to transport it. SmartShift’s services are available via the website, smartphone app and call centre... The app works by providing three vehicle options to cargo owners on logging in, a three wheeler, a mini truck or a pick up, each with varying weight and dimensional capacities. On selecting a vehicle, details of load, destination address, payment option etc. are required to be entered. Cargo owners are not charged a service fee for using the platform, although they have to pay for the actual transport. The company claims to use a proprietary algorithm to automatically calculate the best price to transport these goods, as well as allow cargo owners to then change the price to their preference...
New Delhi, India -  Medianama, by Vivek Pai - October 20, 2015


 ** Kells / Ireland - A smartphone on wheels: here is how tomorrows intelligent trucks work

-- Tomorrow’s intelligent truck is more similar to a smartphone on wheels than a traditional vehicle... “Within a few years this is going to revolutionise productivity in the transport industry,” says Hayder Wokil, Director Quality & Uptime at Volvo Trucks... Today there are about 175,000 online-connected Volvo trucks on Europe's roads. A number of them can already today send information about when they need maintenance and some of the necessary service work can even be administrated remotely... However, this is just the beginning... 
(Photo: In the future trucks will be able to communicate with other vehicles in their vicinity)  --  Kells, Co. Meath, Ireland - IrishTrucker - 20 October 2015


*** Idaho / USA - Truckers prepare for electronic travel logs

-- Mandating electronic logbooks in interstate trucks and buses would prevent 20 fatalities and 434 injuries each year, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates... The USDoT proposed the rule to force drivers to switch from paper to digital travel logs in an effort to reduce trucking accidents, including those caused by fatigued drivers... The department says the rule would simplify the monitoring of time truckers spend on the road and the reprimanding of those who log too many hours...  Impaired driving, including fatigue, was listed as a factor in more than 12 percent of the 129,120 crashes involving large trucks or buses in 2012, the department says. The proposed rule would make it harder for drivers to misrepresent their time on logbooks and avoid detection by authorities... Custody of the electronic records would remain with truckers and their employers, as paper logs do today. The records would be available to law enforcement and regulators during roadside inspections, compliance reviews and post-crash investigations. The log laws apply to trucks traveling at least 150 miles... The rule would also establish a procedure for a driver to file a harassment complaint against a carrier who orders trips that require drivers to break hours-of-service rules or to operate a vehicle while fatigued. The proposal will ensure drivers can access their records and will require logging devices to include a mute function to protect against sleep disruptions, the department says... 
(Photo by CHRIS BUTLER/Statesman file - Trucks parked at the rest stop on I-84 east of Boise)   --  ID, USA - The Idaho Statesman, by ZACH KYLE - October 20, 2015

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