Fleet Management

High Performance Ship Tracking Micro-satellite Launched

In a major development, exactEarth has announced that they have successfully launched their ESAIL microsatellite which is custom made for global ship tracking, reports the Digital Ship website.

Developed under ESA’s ARTES Partnership Project for global ship tracking, the ESAIL satellite was launched September 3rd onboard the Arianespace Vega (VV16) flight, from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

What is it?

ESAIL is a high-performance microsatellite, built by LuxSpace with the support of...

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KeepTruckin’s App Marketplace 2.0 gives carriers more control over data

KeepTruckin’s App Marketplace 2.0 gives carriers more control over data (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Fleet management company KeepTruckin has announced App Marketplace 2.0, a platform that allows carriers to control which third parties have access to their data while also having visibility into how frequently those third parties retrieve their data. These utilization insights are made available via time stamps and location data that can be accessed on the KeepTruckin dashboard. 

Kelly Hanson, senior technology partnerships manager at KeepTruckin, said the newly improved platform was a product...

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WEX reports sharp drops in revenue and earnings during second quarter

WEX Inc. (NYSE: WEX) reported earnings of $1.21 per share, a 46.9% decline compared to earnings of $2.28 per share a year ago, during the company’s earnings call on Thursday, July 31.

The Portland, Maine-based provider of fuel payment processing for fleet vehicles also reported revenues of $347.08 million for the quarter ended June 2020, compared to year-ago revenues of $441.81 million, a 21.4% decline. 

“Our second quarter results reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and underscore the...

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A match made in telematics heaven

Navistar Samsara
  • Navistar makes a remote diagnostics device. Samsara provides fleet management software.
  • A new partnership allows the companies to offer both solutions on a single device.

Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) has announced a partnership with Internet of Things provider Samsara, as the country’s fourth-largest truck manufacturer seeks to expand telematics offerings without adding a burdensome number of in-cab vehicle devices.

The collaboration builds on Navistar’s existing open-architecture,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/a-match-made-in-telematics-heaven

Samsara lays off 18% of workforce

ELD and fleet management solutions provider Samsara announced Wednesday it was laying off 300 employees, 18% of its workforce, as the company responds to the coronavirus downturn. 

“It’s now clear that COVID-19 has become the most significant economic event in the past 100 years,” CEO Sanjit Biswas said in a blog post, and “since the outbreak, we’ve had to plan for scenarios that were unimaginable just a few months ago.” 

Geographic areas impacted by the layoffs focused on Italy, Spain and Benelux...

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