Press Releases
A New Wave in Freight Matching is Here!
GET READY TO RIDE THE FREIGHT PIPELINE!
A NEW WAVE IN FREIGHT MATCHING IS HERE!
Milton, Ontario, Canada – April 13, 2009. Loadsurfer Corporation announces the upcoming release of Load Surfer, a freight matching pipeline designed to change the face of the load matching industry. Powered by modern architecture, lightening speed and world-class reliability, the new system combines traditional freight matching logic with the tools that users need to run their businesses efficiently and profitably. Load Surfer will provide unlimited freight and equipment matching along with Equifax Credit reports and ProMiles mileage for one low monthly price. A FREE trial will be available in May but visitors to ExpoCam in Montreal (April 16th through 18th) will get a sneak peek at the program.
A feature unique to Load Surfer is the TMS (Transportation Management System) Partners Program. In addition to a traditional standalone web application, users of TMS programs will be able to post, edit and remove their loads and equipment to Load Surfer automatically. In the fall of 2009, a second integration will be released that will enable TMS users to retrieve their leads back into their dispatching systems, virtually eliminating the need to use two disparate systems to run their operations. Four TMS Companies (Axon Development Corporation, Infosite Technologies Inc, Millogiciel Inc. and Trans+Plus Systems Corp.) have agreed to offer Load Surfer as a standard integration effective immediately. An integration document is also available that makes it simple for other TMS providers or companies operating customized applications to integrate their systems to Load Surfer.
“Although TMS users have long enjoyed the benefits of having integrated mapping, satellite tracking data and automated fuel tax preparation built right into their software, the Canadian TMS market lacks a quality freight matching integration”, said Roy Thacker, CEO of Loadsurfer. “Surfer is an open platform which means that users can customize the manner in which they use the data from the pipeline. We will be the industry standard to which other applications are compared.”
About Load Surfer Corporation
Loadsurfer Corporation is a Canadian-owned and operated company dedicated to the development of an electronic trading environment that combines standard freight matching algorithms with the power of applications such as Facebook and eBay. The core management team and ownership group comprises transportation software professionals, each of whom has many years of experience in the transportation solutions market.
Complete information can be found at www.loadsurfer.com
For more information contact:
Roy Thacker
CEO
Load Surfer Corporation
Tel: 416.848.7792. Ext 111
E-mail: rthacker@loadsurfer.com
KINGPIN Edition
ProMiles Continues to Strengthen Relationship with Tele Atlas!
ProMiles Canada Inc (PMC) announced the official release of ‘KINGPIN’ the latest version of its flagship ProMiles mileage guide. This version of the long running ProMiles mileage guide is named for its inclusion of more vehicle configuration settings than any other mileage guide. Kingpin combines ProMiles’ 15 years of experience with Tele Atlas’ best-in-class digital maps, including “last-mile” and “logistics-specific” routing attributes, to better enable high quality and safe truck navigation on local road networks in the continental United States and Canada for virtually all commonly used vehicle configurations.
Kingpin features door-to-door routing and enhanced road attributes, leveraging digital map data and content from Tele Atlas/Logistics database, which covers 7.5 million miles of road in North America. Kingpin has 187 different types of truck routing attributes covering 12 different vehicle types and a total of more than 26 million truck routing attributes applied to the digital map data. With all of this truck routing data, Kingpin has the ability to route vehicle configurations ranging from local delivery trucks, to dump truck and ready-mix trucks, to the peddle runs on short trailers, to the Long Combination Vehicles (LCVs) running on the toll roads and rural highways in the West including triples, rocky mountain doubles, turnpike doubles, and B and C-trains. And of course Kingpin is the first mileage guide ever to fully cover all trailer kingpin regulations in North America.
“The release of Kingpin marks the culmination of a long, thorough process and significant resource investment that ProMiles has made to migrate the truck attributes collected over the years to the new product database,” said Chris Lee, marketing director, ProMiles. “By leveraging the Tele Atlas digital map data, and Tele Atlas’ vast in-field collection capabilities, we believe this product will provide the industry with a new level of logistics routing capabilities.”
“ProMiles continues to demonstrate its commitment to delivering strong offerings for the fleet industry,” said Dana Fenner, director, fleet and logistics, Tele Atlas. “We’re pleased to continue working with ProMiles to deliver an industry solution that helps ensure their customers can effectively and easily route to their end destination.”
About Kingpin Regulations: ProMiles has identified 14 different variations of kingpin regulations, different lengths, measuring to different points on the trailer, and of course the regulations that some jurisdictions apply to all trailers while some specify that they only apply to specific trailers. For example, a driver picking up a legal load in Texas heading to Florida could easily be faced with the dilemma of having to slide their trailer tandems to meet Florida kingpin regulations, but in doing so being overweight on the trailer. ProMiles Kingpin Edition will be the first mileage guide that will help the trucking industry identify these types of problems. While the kingpin regulations cover all roads in the national network within some jurisdictions, other jurisdictions (such as the state of Florida) apply the regulations only to specific roads. ProMiles Kingpin Edition will help the trucking industry with route planning to determine what, if any, kingpin regulations will apply to the desired route.
About ProMiles: ProMiles Software Development Corporation, developer of the industry's Largest and Most Accurate Mileage and Mapping Database with over 931,000 miles of truck useable roads, develops various types of desktop (CD) and Web applications such as Route/Stop Optimization, Fuel Tax Reporting, Fuel Management and Fuel Purchase Optimization. Companies such as Wal-Mart, Greyhound, Ocean Spray, Bayer and Shandex have benefited from the use of ProMiles applications. ProMiles fuel price data has tens of thousands of users across North America including nationwide chains such as Pilot, Loves, Flying J. Every Canadian Province and the majority of US State/DOT Auditors are using ProMiles applications for IFTA, Log Book and IRP compliance verification. ProMiles gives the trucking industry the same tools to pre-audit their records that the government uses to perform an audit. For more information on ProMiles Software Development Corporation, visit www.promilescanada.com
For more information contact: ProMiles Canada Inc, 888-RD-Miles, info@promilescanada.com
ARCFLEET™ OFFERS INTEGRATION TO PROMILES® FUEL TAX
ARCFLEET™ OFFERS INTEGRATION TO PROMILES® FUEL TAX
Innisfil, ON Canada: January 12, 2007 – Arcline (2000) Inc., developer of ArcFleet™ Trucking Dispatch Software, enhances the ProMilesXF® Mileage Interface to include the Fuel Tax Module.
Automatically send mileage information to ProMiles® in one easy step from ArcFleet™ Trucking Dispatch Software. Send trip information in miles or kilometers, and/or by odometer reading to ProMiles® Fuel Tax and accurately prepare IFTA, IRP and fleet reporting. Eliminate double entry of data and save valuable time by enabling direct communication between ArcFleet™ Trucking Dispatch Software and ProMilesXF® Mileage Software with Fuel Tax.
The ProMilesXF® interface coupled with Fuel Tax, automatically imports the miles/kilometers and odometer reading into ArcFleet™. Once the order is complete, the user then sends the updated Load information to the Fuel Tax module. The user will then be notified with a confirmation window that the transactions have been sent successfully. Run profitability reports by Driver, Truck, Trailer and trip productivity included with your ArcFleet™ System.
“Arcline (2000) and ProMiles® products are the perfect marriage of software solutions; both of our organizations understand the needs of today’s competitive financially challenged marketplace by offering in-house leasing options”, says Michelle Dirracolo President of Arcline (2000) Inc. “This allows trucking companies to afford leading edge software solutions at low monthly fees increasing their cash flow. With ProMiles® state of the art Mileage and Fuel Tax software along with Arcline (2000)’s leading edge Dispatch Management Software solutions, trucking companies can be rest assured that they have the tools to succeed.”
“The affordable ProMiles® Fuel Tax Module accurately calculates IFTA, IRP, Mile and other tax reports in U.S.A. or Canadian jurisdictions for single or multi fleet companies, based on units, terminals, or fleets. With automatic mile/kilometer and gallon/liter conversions and ‘pre-audit’ features, data entry is fast and easy, or can be automated with the interface to ArcFleet™ Trucking Dispatch Software”, says Mark Bowie, President of ProMiles® Canada.
About Arcline (2000) Inc.
Arcline (2000) Inc. is a privately held software development company that produces Transportation Management Software products for Trucking Companies and Freight Brokers. Through strategic partnerships and constant research of current and future trends, Arcline (2000) Inc. is committed to providing customers with the technological tools required to prosper in today’s competitive marketplace.
Contact: Michelle Dirracolo
Company: Arcline (2000) Inc.
Phone number: 705-431-2028
E-mail: michelle@arcline2000.com
Website: www.arcline2000.com
ProMiles Now Offering New Maddocks Software Integration
October 2005 – TucsonAZ
Maddocks Systems Inc., a leading developer of transportation and logistics software, has completed a series of enhancements to the TruckMate for Windows (TM4Win) enterprise package integration to the ProMiles Mileage Guide. The new integration was developed to ensure the enhanced features in ProMiles XF® Version 11 with Fuel Purchase Optimization can be utilized by all Maddocks clients.
"Recent enhancements to the ProMiles offering and the improved Maddocks interface have already resulted in a significant increase in TM4Win/ProMiles joint users and many 'converts' to ProMiles from other mileage programs," said Mark Bowie, President of ProMiles Canada Inc.
The improved ‘interface’ between ProMiles XF® and TruckMate results from advanced programming, new features, content, and greater speed of the ProMiles XF® package. The new ProMiles XF® and interface has resulted in a renewal and strengthening of the existing partnership between Maddocks and ProMiles.
The new integration has been welcomed by many Maddocks Sytems Inc. clients including Morrice Transportation of Windsor, Ontario. Mileage management and controlling fuel costs is a top priority for this carrier which operates 120 power units and offers a range of services to shippers. Morrice IT Manager, Jason Robertson, a longtime Maddocks user stated “we are proud to now be live with the ProMiles.”
The ProMiles® Mileage Guide is used by ALL Canadian Provincial Governments and a majority of USA State Jurisdictions as an aid in the audit process for IFTA, IRP, DOT, POE, and other ‘mileage compliant’ programs.
Founded in 1981, Maddocks Systems Inc. (www.maddockssystems.com) is a leading supplier of software solutions exclusively to the transportation and logistics industry. Truckmate for Windows is an enterprise-wide client server product designed to meet the needs of Truckload, LTL, Brokerage/Logistics, Bulk, Intermodal and Private carriers.With over 450 installed systems, Maddocks is the number one provider of Windows client-server trucking software solutions.
ProMiles XF® is produced by the ProMiles Software Development Corporation (PSDC) and is distributed by ProMiles Canada Inc. With tens of thousands of users across Canada and the USA, ProMiles® is the fastest growing program of its type available today. ProMiles® is "more than just a miler" with features that are unparalleled in the industry. It is the largest, most accurate, most affordable truck mapping/routing program available.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Bowie, ProMiles Canada Inc. 1.888.736.4537
Neal Cranna, Maddocks Systems Inc. 1.800.663.0626 Ext 125