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Ongoing updates regarding the recent MCP connectivity issue

Ray Greer
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Update: Sunday, November 10, 2019, 4:35 pm CST

I’m sharing this update to share today’s progress in the final remediation for all five MCP/GOBI combinations.

For the MCP 50 devices, beta testing began Saturday night and has been successful. We expanded the number of devices in beta today...

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Saluting our veterans, on and off the road

Omnitracs
Commitment, teamwork, innovative thinking, and problem solving. For veterans of the United States armed services, these qualities are just part of the...

Improving workflows and cross-team collaboration

Rula Ifteiha
Your business and silos In the early 90s, Jack Welch — the then CEO of General Electric — introduced the concept of the boundaryless organization ....

Ready, set, go: Getting ready for Omnitracs Outlook 2020

Christine Krumbholz
At Omnitracs, we’re obsessed with building better fleets, powering the next generation of truckers, and keeping the world of freight moving. There’s...

A Q&A with an Omnitracs security expert

Rula Ifteiha
In today’s highly competitive environment, customer-centricity is becoming the leading mantra. Putting customer needs above all else is a powerful...

How drivers can go the extra mile with ELDs

Omnitracs
When the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate was introduced back in late 2017, there were a lot of questions about how the changes would impact...

Your business and algorithms: A perfect match

Tyler Forcum
Formulated in the 1800s, the Traveling Salesman Problem is a classic, complex mathematical problem that remains well-used in computer science and...

It’s hurricane season and freight keeps moving

Omnitracs
Many aspects of everyday life come to a screeching halt during hurricane season. Businesses shut down, schools close, and the focal point for most...

Omnitracs Outlook 2020 is headed to Las Vegas!

Omnitracs
Registration opens today for Omnitracs Outlook 2020 in Sin City! Omnitracs will be hosting hundreds of fleet management, transportation, and logistics...

Omnitracs delivers at women’s empowerment conference

Rula Ifteiha
Last week, Omnitracs served as a Ruby sponsor for the Dallas-held Accelerate! Conference and Expo sponsored by Women in Trucking. The main purpose of...

3 ways ELDs improve the driver experience

Omnitracs
For every business, across every industry, data is transforming the very definition of success. Take the sports world, for instance: Technology is now...

All GPS solutions are not created equal

Chris Chappelear
It happens all too often: a driver is following their GPS down a road they don’t recognize, thinking about their stops and deliveries when — BAM —...

Five podcasts truck drivers should be listening to

Rachel Regner
If you’re a truck driver, you’re used to spending long stretches on the road, looking for ways to pass the time as the miles fly by. Maybe it’s your...