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 ...

The smart trailer concept is still in its infancy, and already the potential seems almost limitless. Over the past five years, trailers have gone from boxes on wheels to sources of business ...

[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 ...

Who hasn’t had a call from a driver at 2 a.m. saying the hot load he just pinned up to in the customer’s yard has a flat tire, or no lights? The three most common and costly trailer problems – brakes, ...

Phillips Connect today announced new platform enhancements designed to expand how fleets capture and use trailer intelligence across their operations. Introduced at the Technology & Maintenance ...

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 ...

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 ...