Jim Tucker

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 22, 2012

ORTEC, a global software and resource optimization provider, and Xata Corporation, a leading provider of intuitive, automated fleet management software solutions to the trucking industry, today announced enhancements to ORTEC Mobile, an advanced routing and scheduling software featuring mobile POD, DOT compliance and GPS capabilities. ORTEC Mobile helps users reduce miles and costs through route compliance; increase customer service levels; gain real-time visibility of fleet operations via GPS; provide digital POD and electronic invoicing to help reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO); and help comply with CSA regulations.

Eden Prairie, MN-based Xata delivers real-time critical information on vehicle and driver performance, making it easy for fleet managers, dispatchers and drivers to collect, sort, view and analyze data to help reduce costs and increase safety and compliance. Xata was the first to provide paperless driver logs, exception-based fleet management and learned standards for accurate business intelligence. Xata?s products seamlessly combine enterprise software, onboard computing, real-time communications and global positioning to provide an enterprise-wide logistics management solution for trucking operations.

?ORTEC and Xata are each leaders in innovation and dedicated to providing customers with enterprise software solutions that cover all the bases,? said Christian Schenk, vice president of market development and product marketing, Xata. ?ORTEC Mobile covers everything?it?s cutting-edge, one-stop shopping for your fleet.?

ORTEC?s software solution achieves both static and dynamic, cost-efficient transportation schedules. The ORTEC Mobile solution ensures route compliance and provides customers with the ability to manage real-time events by exception. ORTEC Mobile also provides customers with vastly improved dispatch and real-time capabilities. Optimizing routes reduces overall transportation costs by minimizing fuel, repair, maintenance and labor expenses. The enhanced software provides real-time updates for events such as resource status and location, changes due to real-time occurrences and improved communications with resources in the field.

?ORTEC Mobile makes ?management by exception? a daily reality, not a dream,? commented Corn Aantjes, ORTEC?s CEO of the Americas. ?We empower our customers, enabling them to detect operational problems in real time and correct them immediately. The global recession has led to employees taking on more roles and responsibilities, so delegating tasks to software that manages by exception frees up employees to focus on customer service. ORTEC Mobile helps our customers reach higher service levels, improve transportation network by reducing mileage and fuel consumption and, importantly, comply with CSA and DOT HOS regulations.?

Compliance Safety Accountability (CSA) Update

(Source: The McCart Group)

Previously named CSA2010 (Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010), CSA is a proactive initiative to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of FMCSA?s enforcement and compliance program. Work on this program began in 2004 as an effort by the enforcement community to use resources wisely. Prior to CSA, only 2% (12,000) of all motor carriers could be reached for a compliance review. CSA allows for more contact with more motor carriers in real-time, with emphasis on those carriers who are exhibiting problems in safety. It works as follows:

Uses all roadside inspection results and crash reports to identify safety deficiencies
Employs a wider array of interventions tailored to problems instead of solely the time-intensive Compliance Review process
Enables more carriers to be contacted earlier
Requires sustained accountability of carriers and increases accountability of drivers

About ORTEC

ORTEC is a leading provider of strategic, tactical and operational route planning and scheduling, services planning, and pallet and load building software solutions. Our solutions and consulting services result in optimal route plans, real-time fleet scheduling and visibility, more efficiently built pallets and fuller truckloads. In addition, ORTEC solutions enable increased delivery forecasting accuracy and improved customer service. ORTEC provides best-of-breed, custom-made and SAP-embedded and certified solutions, supported by global strategic partnerships. In the area of advanced planning solutions, ORTEC has over 1,350 customers worldwide, over 550 employees and offices in Europe, North America, Asia and the Pacific Region. For more information about ORTEC visit http://www.ortec.com/us.

About Xata

Xata Corporation provides intuitive, automated fleet management software solutions to the trucking industry. By delivering real-time critical information on vehicle and driver performance, Xata makes it easy for fleet managers, dispatchers and drivers to collect, sort, view and analyze data to help reduce costs, increase safety and compliance, and improve customer satisfaction. Xata?s award-winning solutions include 1) XataNet, a full-featured, enterprise-wide solution that helps private and for-hire fleets drive continuous improvement, and 2) Xata Turnpike, a technologically advanced, low-cost, easy-to-install solution that runs on drivers? existing cell phones, smartphones and tablet computers. Both solutions help fleet managers and drivers meet established and emerging electronic onboard recorder (EOBR) regulations. For more information, visit http://www.xata.com or call 1.800.745.9282.

The Society of Others

New fiction from the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning Gladiator.The nameless narrator of The Society of Others is an alienated youngster who sees no meaning in life. He doesn’t even see the point of getting out of bed in the morning. To get his nagging family off his back he embarks on an aimless hitchhiking adventure. When he is picked up on the highway on the way to the Channel Tunnel by a truck driver spouting Descartes and Kant, it seems as if he is at the start of a picaresque coming-of-age journey around Europe. But then the truck reaches the border of a repressive European state and the narrator watches in terror as the driver is tortured and killed by a sinister band of men in black bomber jackets. What was so dangerous to this country’s regime in the cache of banned books he was smuggling in to the country?With all the pace and thrust of a thriller, the hero is propelled into a dizzying sequence of increasingly terrifying Kafka-esque adventures, as he tried to understand the bloody struggle between the regime’s secret police and a band of equally ruthless and fanatical freedom fighters, and his own role in that struggle. Written to be read at several different levels and to provoke debate, this novel is also a moral fairytale, bursting with art, poetry, music and ideas.William Nicholson is a highly sought-after Hollywood screenwriter whose work on Gladiator helped garnered the film an Oscar. He is also the bestselling and award-winning children’s author of The Wind Singer trilogy. He lives in East Sussex with his wife and their three children.

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