Everything is getting smart these days: From smart kitchen appliances to smart doorbells and watches. Trucks and trailers are getting smarter, too. After spending most of the 20th century slowly ...

For transportation and logistics companies, every minute on the road counts. Knowing where trailers are, how long they’ve been out of rotation and when they’ll reach their destination is essential to ...

What is a smart trailer? Historically, trailers are “unintelligent” devices, meaning that they respond only to external inputs. This one-way dialog leaves untapped potential in the form of information ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A new report from the Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations said technology can help improve trailer ...

Phillips Connect has assembled four kits, which it calls Internet of Trailers kits, that allow fleets to convert to smart trailers. Smart-trailer technology uses telematics to enable real-time ...

The new TracKing telematics system is designed to help Thermo King customers reduce fuel use and cut back on emissions by minimizing idling time and supporting proactive maintenance. TracKing Smart ...

Samsara has bolstered its Smart Trailers solution to optimize customer solutions, the company announced Sunday during a press conference at ATA's Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) Annual Meeting ...

The family tree for Internet of Things was planted in the trucking industry long before the term was invented. For more than 20 years, fleets have been using telematics, the granddaddy of IoT, to stay ...

Every blind spot in a fleet costs time, money and customer trust. For decades, trailers have been treated as boxes on wheels, essential but invisible to the in-cab and back-office software platforms ...

In what appears to be way of addressing the lack of trunk space in the new Smart fortwo, DCX has released a few sketches showing the Smart accessorized to appeal to that overly-pursued active ...