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Cell phone network pilot delivers ROI, service benefits
Having conducted a successful pilot test, Roadway Express Inc. plans to expand a cellphone-network-based data communications system combined with a vehicle-location tracking system to 20 of its 388 terminals nationwide, becoming one of the first less-thantruckload (LTL) short-haul carriers to establish such a system.
Although more than onethird of the long-haul trucking fleets have deployed two-way data communications, only 4% to 5% of the LTL carriers that perform numerous delivery and pickups in major urban areas have adopted such technology, according to the American Trucking Association (ATA) in Alexandria, Va.
Akron, Ohio-based Roadway piloted the new data communications system, OmniExpress from San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., at six of its terminals, with several hundred trucks. The...