The long-running intellectual property dispute between technology providers Omnitracs and Platform Science has potentially come to an end. A California federal court issued a clear ruling on Dec. 23 denying Omnitracs’ requests for a retrial and overturned the jury’s previous decisions including a right to $19.3 million in damages.
It remains unclear whether Omnitracs will appeal, as the judge not only canceled the $19.3 million verdict but also conditionally ruled under Federal Rule of Civil...
Vehicle life cycle management software provider Solera Holdings Inc. is going viral for all the wrong reasons.
Solera conducted a round of layoffs via Teams on Monday. Unbeknownst to company officials, the cutback announcement was filmed by one of its employees and later posted on TikTok.
Solera let us go on teams and didnt mute us. I posted and deleted because i felt bad, but these people didnt feel bad for us so fk it, whatever happens HAPPENS. I am in need of a JOB,...
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Commercial fleets have not escaped the alarming increase in vehicle collisions and fatalities over the last couple of years. We reached out to Safety Advisor Don Osterberg to gain insights on the factors contributing to these disappointing developments in road safety, as well as to ask what fleets can do to protect their drivers, their businesses, and the motorists who share the roads with them.
You may be surprised by what he has to say in this Q&A. Osterberg shares his views on how...
Truck drivers for Wisconsin-based truckload carrier Marten Transport say they received two fleetwide messages Tuesday afternoon from the company’s top executive thanking them for their patience as the company continues to work “through some systems issues” it started “experiencing Sunday.”
However, some drivers say there was little communication from the company about the systems issues prior to receiving those two fleetwide messages from Tim Kohl, CEO of Marten, through Omnitracs, the trucking...
Tensions are still high among employees and executives at risk and asset management solutions provider Solera and its newly acquired companies Omnitracs and DealerSocket.
After approximately 30% of employees at Omnitracs, a fleet telematics company, and DealerSocket, an automotive SaaS provider, were laid off or given notice they would be laid off on Oct. 22, remaining employees and executives face an uncertain future.
According to a former Omnitracs human resources employee, this uneasy working...
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A significant number of employees at logistics telematics company Omnitracs and SaaS provider DealerSocket were laid off this week, two months after both companies were acquired by Solera Holdings Inc. Many other employees received 90-day notices in a massive restructuring plan by Solera, a major player in risk and asset management data and software.
A project manager at DealerSocket said more than 200 people are being laid off from his company, and that potentially up to 35% of all staff from...
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For Omnitracs, patent number US 9,147,335 B2 — also known as “System and method for generating real-time alert notifications in an asset tracking system” — is key to its position as a leading fleet management software company.
It’s why Omnitracs filed a lawsuit last year against Platform Science, alleging that its competitor had infringed upon its technology patents. Omnitracs had taken similar protective measures against startups KeepTruckin and Samsara.
In response, Platform Science filed a...
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Fleet intelligence and telematics provider Omnitracs announced Thursday the release of SmartSense for Inattentive Driving+, which identifies distracted driving and aims to reduce accidents.
The next generation of the company’s SmartSense technology uses cab-facing cameras and a sensor to engage AI and computer vision to detect drivers who may be drowsy or using their cellphones. The system monitors changes in head position and blinking to alert drivers when they are distracted or nodding off.
“Ina...
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