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Highland Transport Selects Maptuit's Newly Released FleetNav Suite
Burlington, MA (December 17, 2003) - Maptuit Corporation, a provider of transportation optimization solutions for the trucking industry, today announced Canada's Highland Transport has selected the newly released FleetNav Suite to support their fleet operations for 750 trucks. Maptuit's FleetNav Suite includes FleetNav Directions, an optimizing routing tool; FleetNav Fuel, a real-time fuel pricing module; and FleetNav Alert, a powerful monitoring and reporting tool for the transportation industry.
"By using Maptuit, we will have a management tool that will give us real-time visibility into our fleet operations," commented Geoff Scott, V.P. of Operations at Highland Transport. "Maptuit combined with Cancom's system provides our drivers with truck-friendly routes to help them get to our customers safely, accurately, and on-time."
Using Maptuit's FleetNav Suite with their Cancom mobile communication solution, Highland drivers will receive the most efficient truck-to-door directions integrated with their fueling instructions in either French or English text messages. Highland will be able to use the FleetNav Suite to gain visibility into their fleet's activities in real-time to determine where their fleet is, if their driver is taking the least-cost route, if their drivers will be arriving at their customers on time, and if drivers need their help. They will also be able to determine their best performers by driver manager and by driver, as well as trends on critical business metrics to measure the success of their fleet operations.
"We are pleased Highland Transport has chosen Maptuit for their transportation optimization solution." said Jeff Papows, CEO of Maptuit. "With Maptuit's FleetNav Suite, Highland will have the management tools needed to create efficiencies within their operations and gain insight into their fleet activity."
About Highland Transport
Highland Transport, founded in 1967, is one of Canada's largest truckload carriers, with full 9 Province and 48 State authorities. Over the years, Highland has grown by providing quality service, on a consistent basis, to a wide range of customers across Canada and in key areas of the United States. By ensuring reliability in every area, Highland has become one of Canada's leading truckload and container carriers.
About Cancom
Cancom Tracking, a Shaw Communications company (TSX - SJR.B, NYSE - SJR), provides tracking, two-way messaging, and integrated transportation and logistics solutions to the trucking industry. For more than a decade, Cancom Tracking customers have been increasing revenues, enhancing security, saving lives and improving productivity with the OmniTRACS mobile communications system. Cancom's products and services provide significant competitive advantages to transportation companies requiring ongoing fleet coordination. Additional information about Cancom Tracking is available at www.cancomtracking.ca.
About Maptuit Corporation
Founded in 1999, Maptuit (www.maptuit.com) provides a sophisticated transportation optimization solution to over 40,000 heavy trucks in the United States and Canada. The FleetNav Suite includes; FleetNav Directions, a least-cost routing tool; FleetNav Fuel, a real-time fuel pricing module and FleetNav Alert, a powerful monitoring and reporting tool. Built around the industry's most sophisticated model of the North American road network, Maptuit supplies the infrastructure needed to find addresses, calculate efficient truck-friendly routes, and determines the optimal way to assign and deploy resources. With two data centers based in Denver, Colorado and Toronto, Canada, Maptuit conducts over 120 million transactions yearly with an uptime of greater than 99.9%.
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