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SEASON TWO

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SEASON TWO: EPISODE ONE

SEASON TWO

Upgrade in progress. New technologies are increasingly accessible -- and in some cases required -- for trucking businesses. This season of RoadSigns takes a look at the very real technologies most likely to effect business operations this year. What is it like to cope in moments of technological transition? How does a business effectively shed old ways of doing things? Where will that business find new efficiencies, first?

THE AOBRD PHASEOUT: IS YOUR FLEET PREPARED?

Every business manager knows that, when you have institutionalized an operational technology, moving to a new system can feel like an impossible task. And the stakes increase when outside forces put a time constraint on that change. Some of the trucking businesses most forward-thinking managers provide a good example. Their tech? The driver-logging software known as AOBRDs. And, now, they have until December 2019 to migrate to new Electronic Logging Device (ELD) platforms. In this episode of RoadSigns, host Seth Clevenger maps the great tech migration from AOBRDS to ELDS and asks, “What will trucking's business leaders need to make the transition in time?”

SEASON TWO: EPISODE TWO

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR ELDS?

Have you thought about technology as a gateway to… more technology? Take the oft-considered Electronic Logging Device (ELD) technology, for example. What was a technology meant to track hours of service may now be a gateway into new forms of fleet management. In fact, several new ELD vendors (at least the successful ones) are expanding their products to deliver new fleet management features beyond core compliance. In this episode of RoadSigns, Host Seth Clevenger goes on the hunt for examples of new uses of the tech formerly-known-as-just-hours-of-service-tracking and asks, “Can it really do that too?”

SEASON TWO: EPISODE THREE

HOW DOES A.I. CHANGE TRUCKING'S BACK OFFICE?

Did you ever wonder what might happen if your back-office decision makers had time to strategize and think, rather than be weighed down by menial tasks? Could the digital brain help support your real human brains?  And could they do so in cost-effective ways? In this episode of RoadSigns, host Seth Clevenger takes a look at the way an entirely new technology changes trucking’s and freight transportation’s back office.  As artificial intelligence and machine learning begin to appear in trucking and logistics software, he wonders, “How is this trend changing transportation management? And… what is the future?”