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Artificial Intelligence: Revolutionizing Transportation and Logistics

AI has exciting applications for transportation. Here's an overview of what AI is how it is helping businesses improve their operations.

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Manage Your Fleet on the Go with the MyEROAD App

Connect to the MyEROAD fleet management platform from anywhere. Download from the App Store or Google Play. A companion driver app is also available.

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A Brief History of Concrete – the Ultimate Construction Material

Concrete is the most used construction material in the world. Our solution incorporates IoT technology and sensors to ensure the perfect pour every time.

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Detention time problems? ELDs and geofencing can help

Reduce detention time frustrations and build relationships with shippers by using geofences.

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5 Ways Telematics Technology Enhances Fleet Operations

Telematics captures key data to provide powerful insights into your operations, helping you to improve day-to-day decision making and long-term planning.

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Why You Need a Telematics Partner (Not Just a Vendor)

There's a world of difference between a telematics vendor and a telematics partner. Here's why you want a telematics partner.

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Increased Operational Visibility is the Key to Success for Construction Businesses

Today’s construction fleet management solutions can deliver an unprecedented level of visibility, helping businesses gain a competitive edge.

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How Telematics Can Transform Your Light Vehicle Fleet

Understanding fleet performance is crucial. Here's how your fleet can benefit from implementing a telematics solution for your light vehicles.

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The Benefits of Increased Visibility in the Waste Industry

Disputes are common in the waste industry. Telematics can help increase transparency, leading to quicker resolutions and fewer disputes.

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Welcome to the MyEROAD Experience

Learn more about MyEROAD, EROAD's powerful cloud-based fleet management platform.

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Cost Control: Reducing Reefer Fuel and Waste

EROAD's CoreHub Xtreme reefer solution has features that help reduce fuel costs and waste and maintain reefer health.

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Boost Productivity, Reduce Stress with EROAD Construction Solution

The EROAD construction solution helps boost productivity and reduce stress through automatic job statusing, streamlined DVIR and more.

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How Technology Helps Trucking Businesses Navigate Change

Change is a constant in trucking. Choosing the right technology (and the right provider) can help carriers successfully navigate that change.

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How Data Is Driving Success in Trucking

Businesses that embrace the trucking industry's data revolution position themselves for success; those that don’t are at risk of being left behind.

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Better for Business: MyEROAD Activity Map Enhancements

The MyEROAD Activity Map is getting an upgrade to deliver a superior mapping experience tailored to your fleet management needs.

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Three things to know about geofences

Geofences can be a great tool for getting additional insight from your fleet management solution. To help you fully understand the benefits of geofences, we’ve identified three ways you can use them.

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What Is Driving Sustainability in the Trucking Industry?

There are many factors driving sustainability in trucking. Here's an overview, along with ways to start building a more sustainable fleet.

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E-Ticketing Brings Many Benefits to Construction Businesses

E-ticketing provides dynamic, real-time job information that helps construction businesses work smarter, improve efficiency.

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3 Ways to Improve Customer Service with Fleet Technology

If your technology solution is accurate and reliable, you can improve both efficiency and customer service. Here are three ways fleet technology can improve your customer service, helping you retain

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Automatic Job Statusing Helps Ready-Mix Suppliers Deliver the Perfect Pour

Automatic job statusing allows ready-mix truck drivers to focus on the road and getting to and from work sites as efficiently as possible.

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How ELD Technology Can Increase Fleet Efficiency

An ELD can achieve much more than hours of service compliance. It can help increase fleet efficiency in many ways. Learn how to maximize the possibilities.

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Remote Monitoring and Controls Are Crucial to Reefer Management

Remote monitoring is critical for reefer management. 2-way controls let fleet managers get notifications, change set points, turn units on/off, and more.

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These Technologies Are Changing the Concrete Construction Industry

Advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence, is reshaping construction. Listen to the free webinar or read the article to learn more.

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Why CoreRFID is the Gold Standard of Service Verification

CoreRFID is the ultimate service verification tool. Built for waste, CoreRFID helps haulers quickly resolve disputes and educate customers.

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How Increased Transparency Benefits Waste Haulers

The digital transformation of the waste and recycling industry has broken down the silos between internal functional groups and external key stakeholders.

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Fleet Tech and Integrations: A Powerful Combination for Construction Firms

When fleet managers adopt and optimize integrated technology solutions, the benefits become clear.

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Get 3 Levels of Service Verification with the EROAD Waste Solution

Service verification technology can help waste haulers quickly resolve disputes with cities and customers.

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Podcast Recap: Unlocking Cold Chain Efficiency with Data-Driven Insight

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5 Ways AI is Reshaping How Ready-Mix Fleets Operate

Using data as a product, not just information, makes the difference for ready-mix operators. Fill labor gaps, improve pour quality, satisfy customers with the right tech stack.

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Navigating Change: How Technology Empowers Better Fleet Management

An optimized tech stack bridges gaps in driver shortages, improves safety, manages regulatory changes, cuts fuel use, improves decision making. Learn how.

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Modernizing Ready-Mix: Tackling Quality, Labor, and Delivery Challenges

Efficiency and quality are the lifeblood of any successful ready-mix operation. Advanced fleet management solutions are transforming how companies handle batching, dispatch, and labor processes—ultima

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From Deadhead to Head Start: The Benefits of AI and Digital Twins for Fleets

Learn how fleets are using AI tools to attack problems that hurt the bottom line: empty miles, failed deliveries, insurance claims that shouldn't exist.

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What is Fleet Management?

Fleet management helps motor carriers to operate as efficiently as possible. Learn the benefits of fleet management solutions and key considerations.

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Fleet Telematics Explained

The term 'telematics' is a combination of 'telecommunications' and 'informatics.' Learn why and how motor carriers use fleet telematics to cut costs, improve performance and safety.

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Gain a Competitive Edge with Advanced Reefer Telematics

Enhance your fleet operations with advanced reefer telematics. Discover how reefer telematics solutions improve compliance, efficiency, customer satisfaction.

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Podcast Recap: Winter Downtime as the Perfect Moment for Cold Chain Optimization and Change Management

In this episode of FreightWaves’ Running on Ice, EROAD Senior Sales Engineer Travis Ross breaks down why winter downtime is the best opportunity for refrigerated fleets to refine SOPs, strengthen temperature compliance, and prepare for next year’s peak season’s demands.

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The Cold Hard Truth and Dollars Behind Reefer Operating Modes

The Cold Hard Truth and Dollars Behind Reefer Operating Modes New data reveals that most refrigerated fleets are running less efficiently than they realize

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The Hidden Costs of Keeping a Ready-Mix Fleet Moving

Downtime and repairs inflate costs for ready-mix fleets. Learn how telematics can enhance maintenance, extend vehicle life, and keep projects on schedule.

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Watch On Demand: Tech Innovations Breakfast Panel 2025

Watch On Demand: Tech Innovations Breakfast Panel 2025 Smarter Systems. Real Results. Experts Chime in. If you're looking for new ways to improve deliverie

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EROAD Demonstrates Technology Leadership at Record-Breaking 10th Annual Fleet Day, Announces Global Partnerships and Product Innovation

At Fleet Day, EROAD announced a slate of new and expanded global partnerships, further strengthening its integrated ecosystem and addressing the industry-wide demand for seamless data flow between systems. By aligning with best-in-class providers rather than building every solution in-house, EROAD d

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Navigating Challenges Efficiently During the Busiest Season

The year’s busiest quarter brings tight timelines, high volumes, and little room for error. With costs climbing and resources stretched, staying in control of your fleet throughout this part of the year is critical.

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New Fleet Maintenance Software Integration from EROAD & Fleetpal Boosts Fleet Efficiency

EROAD, a global leader in connected fleet management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Fleetpal, a fast-growing provider of commercial vehicle maintenance management software.

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Keep It Chill, Slash the Bill: Cost-Saving Strategies for Cold Chain

When staying cool burns too much fuel, it’s time to rethink your reefer

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Future-Proofing Your Fleet: Navigating Economic, Regulatory, and Workforce Shifts

EROAD’s scalable, flexible technology solutions empower you to adapt to industry pressures by optimizing operations and building long-term resilience.

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Achieving “Hot Savings” in Cold Chain Operations – Part 1

EROAD Co-CEO David Kenneson discusses how technologies like AI are helping carriers boost efficiency and cut costs with FreightWaves.

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EROAD Fleet Management Software Releases & New Features – October 2024

We’ve been busy collaborating with our customers, listening to feedback, and designing new products and features to help our customers get more out of their day to day and improve their fleet performance.

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EROAD Advocates for Safer Roads at Fleet Day

Industry experts and business leaders converged to advance fleet safety, efficiency and sustainability at semi-annual EROAD event.

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EROAD Co-CEO David Kenneson Discusses How Tech Helps Carriers Cut Costs

EROAD Co-CEO David Kenneson discusses how technologies like AI are helping carriers boost efficiency and cut costs with FreightWaves.

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Five tips to avoid common pitfalls when choosing new business technology

Making the right technology choices for your business today could help you to enhance resilience, attract and retain talent, achieve ESG goals, and drive growth.

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How to maximise your fleet’s productivity with telematics

EROAD’s award-winning fleet management software, create smart ‘connected vehicles’ that are being used to optimise businesses of all sizes.

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Navigating Change in the Trucking Industry

EROAD executive Sarah Wicker spoke to FreightWaves about technology that helps trucking businesses weather change in the industry.

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EROAD Fleet Management Software Releases & New Features – March 2024

At EROAD, we’re committed to our purpose of delivering intelligence our customers can trust, for a better world tomorrow. Find out what we've delivered in the first quarter of 2024

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How Technology Helps Fleets Thrive in Challenging Times

How Technology Helps Fleets Thrive in Challenging Times Change is a constant in the transportation industry. Competition, regulatory developments, environm

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Navigating Uncertainty: What Lies Ahead and How Targeted Technology Adoption Can Help

Navigating Uncertainty: What Lies Ahead and How Targeted Technology Adoption Can Help Watch the video Fleet technology delivers proven benefits to transpor

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EROAD Celebrates 10 Years in Australia

EROAD is celebrating over a decade of experience in the Australian fleet management market.

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Better for Business: MyEROAD Fleet Map Enhancements

EROAD is committed to delivering intelligence our customers can trust, for a better world tomorrow. Find out what we delivered in 2023 to enhance customer experience, and what to expect in 2024.

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EROAD Fleet Management Software Releases & New Features – December 2023

EROAD is committed to delivering intelligence our customers can trust, for a better world tomorrow. Find out what we delivered last quarter.

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EROAD Collaborates With BCMI to Enhance Concrete Supply Chain Transparency and Improve Efficiency

EROAD and BCMI are teaming up to enhance transparency and efficiency in the concrete supply chain, improving communication and functionality for ready-mix customers.

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EROAD’s 2023 highlights, and what to expect in 2024

EROAD is committed to delivering intelligence our customers can trust, for a better world tomorrow. Find out what we delivered in 2023 to enhance customer experience, and what to expect in 2024.

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EROAD Fleet Management Software Releases & New Features – September 2023

EROAD Australia continues to work with customers and partners to develop and enhance its fleet management software, hardware and services.

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Turn Complex Data Into Actionable Insights

Turn Complex Data Into Actionable Insights Increase fleet visibility to boost safety, efficiency and profitability. This free download shows how.

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Gain a Competitive Advantage with Tech Tools for Construction

Discover how EROAD's Construction Solution enhances operational efficiency, providing insights for a safer, smarter construction business. Download the infographic now.

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Fleet Forward: Trends and Highlights from EROAD Fleet Day 2023

EROAD Fleet Day is more than just a car show or a fleet management conference; it's an annual event bringing together transport industry professionals, exhibitors, and experts to discuss the latest trends and challenges in fleet management. The 2023 event, held in Hamilton on 26 July, focused on thr

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MyEROAD Map Improvements Bring Better Fleet Visibility

We’ve been collaborating with customers to design new products and features to help businesses improve their fleet performance.

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EROAD Fleet Management Software Releases & New Features – June 2023

EROAD Australia continues to work with customers and partners to develop and enhance its fleet management software, hardware and services.

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An intuitive pool car booking app for your shared fleet

Car-pooling or vehicle sharing is a great way to reduce the overall size of your fleet, lower operational costs and increase vehicle utilisation. However, it can require additional admin to manage it well. That’s why Life Saving Victoria adopted EROAD BookIt, a pool vehicle booking system that makes

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EROAD Expands TMS Integration Capabilities with New Partnership with Tranztec

EROAD and Tranztec TMS integration. EROAD is positioned to enhance fleet efficiency and provide greater visibility into the supply chain ecosystem.

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Fleet management systems can provide data points for sustainability performance

Having the right technology that can deliver fast, reliable data and reporting across a number of metrics is vital for businesses both now and in the future – not only for sustainability reporting but also for the 70%* of businesses investing in operational efficiency in the next 2 years.

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10 ways to help reduce fleet emissions that complement (or don’t require) investment in EVs

While there’s mounting pressure for businesses to increase their sustainability efforts – and some early wins to be made, a third of businesses with vehicles said that cost is preventing them from making progress on setting, measuring and achieving sustainability goals.

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Discover 10 benefits of tracking your company vehicles

Can you easily track how much your light vehicles are costing your business? Do you know how much of your usage is work versus private? Managing a fleet can create hours of admin. Fleet management software could save you time and money and make it easier to get the answers you need.

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ABC Supply Renews Contract with EROAD in Order to Optimize Efficiencies and Ensure Compliance

With EROAD solutions, the largest distributor of roofing and siding has seen improvements in unidentified drive time and HOS violations.

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Manage your fleet on the go with the MyEROAD mobile app

We’re excited to announce the launch of the MyEROAD mobile app, which puts the power of the MyEROAD fleet management portal in the palm of your hand.

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New Mobile Apps Increase Convenience, Flexibility

EROAD has launched two new apps, one for fleet managers and one for drivers.

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Technology Helps Trucking Move Forward

Discover how EROAD's technology enhances trucking with route optimization, driver safety, and electronic logging devices, as discussed by experts in the field.

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Goodbye Depot, Hello MyEROAD

We first launched MyEROAD, our powerful cloud-based platform, in August last year, and we’ve kept Depot running in parallel over the last 8 months. We’re now ready to say goodbye to our old platform, and on 11 April, Depot will be turned off for good.

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Introducing geofence triggered alerts

EROAD’s new GeoAlerts feature lets you send targeted, customisable messages to your drivers, supporting you to improve compliance and safety across your fleet.

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Boost Fleet Safety and Efficiency with Video and Telematics

Learn how GPS tracking, driver behaviour data and in-cab video recorders can boost safety, efficiency and effectiveness across your fleet.

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Accurate job invoicing with MyEROAD vWork integration

vWork’s job scheduling and invoicing software integration with MyEROAD is assisting operators with more seamless and accurate job invoicing.

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Slash admin time with EROAD telematics

EROAD GPS telematics offer real-time data and business benefits for health & safety, fuel tax credits and fleet management, including repair & maintenance.

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Are you ready to book it?

Introducing EROAD BookIt, our new pool vehicle booking platform. Find out about the handy user features and administrator benefits for shared fleets.

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Beat the Trailer Shortage with Trailer Telematics

Freight demand is rising, but it's getting harder to buy or lease trailers. Trailer telematics can help you do more with your existing fleet.

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Product Releases Quarter 2, 2021

EROAD continues to develop and enhance the hardware, software and services we provide to fleets across New Zealand, Australia and North America. Find out about the latest enhancements to our product offering.

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Measure success with Power BI: 9 ideas for custom fleet reports

EROAD Analyst is our preconfigured plug-in app for Microsoft Power BI. What types of reports can you build? Read our blog for ideas on fleet metrics to track.

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EROAD bolsters management team with strong trucking experience to support growth and product line expansion

Transportation technology services company EROAD (NZX/ASX: ERD) announced today that it has added to its management team to support its strong growth in North America and Australia.

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5 ways video telematics improve fleet management

Find out how video telematics and dashcams improve fleet health and safety while aiding driver coaching and insurance accident investigations.

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7 ways to cut fleet costs in 2021

We explain how EROAD GPS telematics can save truck fleets money in 2021 by reducing vehicle accidents and operational costs while increasing productivity.

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5 ways EROAD’s telematics system can save you money

Learn how EROAD GPS telematics offer cost saving benefits associated with fuel tax credits, driver safety, vehicle maintenance and asset tracking.

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Put geofencing tools to work to boost your business

A Geofence is a virtual geographic boundary, named for reporting & billing. Here's four ways geofencing can take your business operations to the next level.

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HERE expands smart navigation tools for large and small fleets

The location technology company strengthened its partnership with EROAD to create more routing options for commercial vehicles.

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EROAD and HERE collaborate to launch new routing and navigation tools for commercial vehicle drivers

EROAD bolsters its focus on driver safety and productivity by partnering with HERE to enable truck-friendly routing and navigation in its solutions.

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Six ways MyEROAD Fleet Maintenance helps maintain your vehicles for a higher performing fleet

Six ways EROAD's telematics helps you proactively manage your fleet maintenance for a safer, more compliant, higher-performing fleet.

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How Telematics Technology Can Cut Operating Costs and Maximise Your Fleet’s Productivity

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][tm_image image=”4121″][vc_column_text css=””]Find out how telematics software can optimise your fleet by: • Maximising productivity • Providing complete visibility of your vehicles and assets • Identifying new efficiency gains • Increasing utilisation • Enhancing safe

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