Bayside Transportation honored for excellence

Bayside Transportation Inc. was recently awarded the Grand Champion Trophy for Fleet Safety by the Maine Motor Transport Association, at the group's annual meeting, reported the Ellsworth American, a newspaper serving Hancock County, Maine.

Showing excellence in trucking safety, Bayside Transportation was given the Grand Champion Award for outstanding safety in the under-4 million miles category, said the newspaper.

As companies like Bayside seek to sustain their records of excellence and other trucking enterprises look for ways to boost performance, they can consider a wide array of tech products being innovated to take trucking safety and fleet management into the 21st century. One such product is the in-vehicle PC created by Portwell, according to eWeek.com.

The vehicle PC is called the PTH-2080A, which runs Windows XP Embedded and features an eight-inch resistive touchscreen, 1 gigabyte of DDR2 RAM and a full range of wireless radios, said the website.

According to the website, the new device was created to integrate a truck's engine data, location information, video images and sensory data, in order to allow trucking companies to better manage fleet members that are out on the road.

The device-maker also factored in visibility of the vehicle PC during the daytime, making the screen sunlight-readable with 600-nit brightness, said the site.

Bayside Transportation honored for excellence

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012