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For some routing technology companies, feedback from the front lines — the truck drivers who can see first-hand when something in the road does not conform to what their navigation devices say — can be some of the most valuable information on their maps.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions introduced a new GPS asset-tracking product Nov. 14.

Supply chain software company Accellos announced that it has acquired technology firm Profitsystems. Terms were not disclosed.

A new study has found trucks using lane-departure warning and roll-stability control systems are less likely to be involved in an accident than those not using the system.

American Trucking Associations has added featured speakers to the Executive Summit on Technology-Driven Performance, Analytics and Answers, the federation said in a Nov. 7 announcement.

New accounting software applications enable truck­ing companies to do far more than digitize their general ledger.

 SAN DIEGO — Daytime cross-docking jobs can help cement business relationships with shippers and increase the utilization rate of terminals, a logistics consultant told a group of less-than-trucklo

By Amy Zuckerman, Contributing Writer

This story appears in the August/September 2009 issue of iTECH, published in the Oct.