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TransCore Upgrades Canadian Version of 3sixty Freight Match with PC*MILER
TORONTO (Business Wire EON) October 16, 2007 -- Companies rely on accurate truck miles to quote transportation costs correctly. With PC*MILER's mileage information displayed when a new load appears, companies can rate a shipment and quickly finalize new business transactions, expediting and consolidating multiple processes. Member companies also have access to full routing details and state mileage breakouts within their 3sixty Freight Match program. The information allows customers to provide accurate routing to their drivers while the state breakouts provide an easy-to-use tool for determining mileages driven in each state and calculating fuel taxes more effectively. Close to 5,000 Canadian-based companies rely on the Canadian version of 3sixty Freight Match service to post their available freight and reduce empty miles. Collectively, these companies make close to 2 million requests daily within the freight-matching database.
PC*MILER is the transportation and logistics industry's leading routing, mileage and mapping software solution with more than 22,000 companies using ALK's PC*MILER, including ninety of the Top 100 motor carriers, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
About ALK Technologies
ALK Technologies Inc., Princeton, N.J., was founded in 1979 by Princeton University professor Dr. Alain Kornhauser, who still provides strategic leadership. ALK recognized the power of information technology early and has consistently developed inventive, practical transportation applications that provide customers a competitive edge, increased efficiency and bottom line benefits. ALK helps companies and individuals understand and harness the relentlessly evolving technologies reshaping the competitive transportation landscape. For more information, visit: www.alk.com.
About TransCore
TransCore operates as a unit of Roper Industries, a market-driven, diversified growth company with 2006 revenues of $1.7 billion, a market capitalization exceeding $5 billion, and is a component of the S&P Mid-Cap 400, Fortune 1000 and Russell 1000 Indexes.
With products and installations in 46 countries, more than 100 patents worldwide, and pioneering applications of internet-based logistics services, radio frequency identification (RFID), and satellite-based asset tracking technologies, TransCore's expertise is unparalleled in the transportation markets it serves. In 2007, Inbound Logistics Magazine ranked TransCore as one of the Top 100 Logistics IT providers.
TransCore's acquisitions of both U.S.-based DAT and Canadian-based Link Logistics formed North America's largest freight matching network, which today facilitates approximately $40 billion in freight transactions annually. TransCore's GlobalWave Satellite Communications Technology Center, the hub for the company's SatCom research and development, is based in Ottawa, Canada, while manufacturing for both RFID and satellite communications is based at TransCore's Amtech Technology Center in Albuquerque, N.M. For more information, visit www.transcore.com.
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