truckIT 2011 Agenda: Bringing you the Experts

No more hearsay, no more third party interpretations - safety begins and ends in a direct collaboration between key legislation decision makers and industry executives. Come be a part of it.

In the last year, many critical changes have come into effect, transforming the face of safety for carrier-fleets. This issue affects every player within the carrier fleet industry and has left decision makers with a number of key decisions to make.

• Whether a fleet-operator or a solution provider, regulation will have an effect, and this year’s keynote presentation will help you understand the regulatory landscape.
• Embrace technology with the peace-of mind that the solutions you are choosing meet industry standards.
• Ensure that what you’re implementing meets the very highest safety standards to protect your customer’s interests, the general public’s safety and lower your risks and costs associated with poor standards.

• Is an integrated logistics system beneficial for your fleet?
• Discover how OldCastle Architectural’s real life Value Proposition functions.
• Learn how OldCastle Architectural's real life Value Proposition added to their bottom line.

Learn how ROI was increased at a mid-sized for-hire carrier through innovative steps into automation:

• Improve productivity - ensure technology enables productivity rather than hampers it
• Reduce errors and costs - erase simple errors, prevent unnecessary costs through automation
• Make better decisions - translate technology and data into decision-making facilitators
• Make faster decisions - reduce holdups with increased decision making accuracy and speed
• Reduce complexity - don’t get caught up in the complexity of technology, allow it to improve processes
• Streamline Processes - understand how removing hindrances can streamline the business as a whole

• Generate a “single source of truth” of hours worked vs. hour driven for HOS compliance
• Optimize scheduling of direct and contract employees for improved safety and driver productivity
• Automate policy management to create an audit trail of corrective actions taken in the event of an incident
• Find, hire and retain quality drivers with streamlined hiring processes
• Improve bidding and billing profitability with accurate job costing

It is one thing to embrace technology, it’s entirely another to ensure that you’re getting the most out of your investment. In this Panel, Executives Discuss:

• Don't lose out on your technology ROI potential: Business practices often fail to keep pace with the latest technology purchases of a company.
• Learn how can you ensure you’re getting the most from your investments.
• Discover how to prevent technology waste by having forward-looking business processes.

• Near real time Data Integration,
•  Data Quality,
• Master Data Management,
• iPads/Slates

Tim Leonard – CTO - USXpress

• How has TMS changed and what directions is it set to take?
• Cases: how each panellist has developed their own TMS to fit their fleet
• 3PLs work with hundreds of fleets, how are they using TMS and how can they collaborate with fleets to ease processes?

Raj Patel - Competitive Analysis Manager - Technology - UPS
Mike Challman - Senior Director, Operations Managed Transportation - Exel

Tejkumar Pandit - Head, Shipping & Logistics CoE - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

• How can Social Networking improve your business - Led by Roman Hlutkowsky, Hlutkowsky Group
• Mobile Technology for carrier fleets
• Cloud Computing - is the time right for you?
• Mobile Phone ban - how will it affect communication with your fleet? - Led by Harold Allen, AT&T
• Driver Shortages - Can technology help fleets cope with driver shortages? - Led by The Trucker

• Discover how Purolator added eight figures to their bottom line through a reimagination of Dimensioning.
• Using vision systems, Purolator increased it's ROI by developing new space recognition and billing image acquisition applications in the courier space.
• This presentation will offer you some incredibly insightful ways this company has used through technology to massively increase their bottom line.

Software as a Service (SaaS) has been considered the great equalizer between fleets - allowing smaller ones to operate the same level of technologies as larger ones by outsourcing them to the cloud. Conversely, SaaS also allows larger fleets that have already made major IT investments to supplement older systems with newer ones.

• Learn how a smaller-sized fleet has embraced SaaS to help it compete against industry giants.
• How SaaS can cost-effectively help fleets of any size to tackle specific IT issues through a-la-carte Cloud software.
• What's next after the plunge into the Cloud has been taken?

• Details TBA

Route and schedule optimization was chosen by almost 60% of respondents in this year’s truckIT report as being the number one technology with the greatest ROI. With high fuel costs being a new reality, and needs to curb emissions, route and schedule optimization will be key technology sectors in years to come.

The benefits of this discussion are clear:

• Stay competitive by coming to grips with ways to mitigate fuel costs.
• Meet the new standard of the carrier fleet industry: Cutting emissions and alleviating the environmental impact of fleets wherever possible.

How Technology is being implemented at FedEx Ground to:

• Provide enhanced package visibility for our customers
• Cleanse recipient addresses and Geocoding
• Perform Preload planning and route design
• Enable efficient vehicle loading and suggested stop sequence

How will technology implementation be an effective cost-saving measure in the future?

• New technologies offer the most direct way for companies to cut-costs and continue to prosper under harsh economic conditions, learn the latest ways companies are saving
• Come hear case-specific examples from fleet industry executives who have implemented new technologies themselves - find out trials and tribulations but also some of the lessons to be learned and advantages gained
• Ensure your fleet is not left behind and be apart of the newest talk on how fleets are embracing technology.