Jan 26, 2023

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Trucker Path Now Offers Geotab ELD and Telematics Solutions ELD and telematics capabilities are the latest additions to Trucker Path’s comprehensive ‘business in a box’ of trucking solutions PHOENIX – November 8, 2022 – Trucker Path, the most comprehensive and most used mobile app for North American truckers, today announced the addition of Geotab ELD and telematics technologies to its growing suite of products and services. “We are excited to be adding ELD and telematics capabilities from Geotab to our ever-expanding set of offerings at Trucker Path,” said Chris Oliver, CMO. “With a growing combination of strategically aligned and integrated products, we now offer a comprehensive set of solutions that includes all the essential technologies and services trucking companies need for successful, profitable operations.” Geotab has once again been ranked the #1 commercial telematics vendor worldwide by ABI Research and continues to be recognized for their innovative technology and solutions. The company currently has over 3 million devices in operation and processes more than 55 billion data points per day. Branded as Trucker Path ELD Powered by Geotab, the solution’s ELD technology provides hours of service and DVIR compliance while the telematics adds vehicle utilization, performance and health assessments along with a wealth of other telematics-driven capabilities. The new offering is available in conjunction with other well-known services from Trucker Path, including: ● The Trucker Path app relied upon by over a million drivers throughout North America ● TruckLoads, a digital freight exchange that connects drivers, carriers and brokers ● COMMAND™, an Operations & Driver Relationship (ODR) platform that provides small to mid-size fleets with TMS technologies ● DISPATCH, a full-service dispatch service designed specifically for small carriers and owner-operators “With this new, affordable offering, Trucker Path customers can get everything they need to run their trucking company all in one place,” added Oliver. “Our “business-in-a-box" approach now includes regulatory compliance, load sourcing, operations management, truck navigation, parking availability, weigh station statuses, dock insights, fuel savings, document scanning, customer invoicing, factoring and even a Dispatch service that combines it all to handle all the back-office work for owner operators and small fleets.” Carriers and fleet operators can visit <a href="www.truckerpath.com/eld">www.truckerpath.com/eld</a> to learn more about Trucker Path ELD Powered by Geotab. About Geotab Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the cloud and providing data-driven analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab’s open platform and Marketplace, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. As an IoT hub, the in-vehicle device provides additional functionality through IOX Add-Ons. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to help customers improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety, and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes. Geotab’s products are represented and sold worldwide through Authorized Geotab Resellers. To learn more, please visit <a href="www.geotab.com">www.geotab.com</a> and follow us <a href="www.geotab.com">@GEOTAB</a> and on LinkedIn. About Trucker Path Phoenix-based Trucker Path is the provider of a wide range of truck driver-centric mobility products. Its Trucker Path app is currently in use by over 1 million professional truck drivers. Offering best-in-class navigation with truck optimized routing, the Trucker Path app also provides access to vital up-to-date information about truck stops, real-time available parking, fuel prices, weigh station status, and truck scales and wash locations. The company also offers TruckLoads, a digital freight exchange that connects drivers, carriers and brokers; COMMAND™, the industry’s first and only Operations & Driver Relationship (ODR) platform that provides small to mid-size fleets with the necessary driver and TMS technologies to successfully run a fleet; and DISPATCH, a full-service dispatch service designed specifically to serve the back-office needs of small carriers and owner-operators. For more information, visit <a href="www.truckerpath.com. ">www.truckerpath.com.</a> Media Contact: Susan Fall LaunchIt Public Relations <a href="tel:8584901050">858-490-1050</a> <a href="mailto:susan@launchitpr.com">susan@launchitpr.com</a>

Nov 10, 2022

Trucker Path Marketplace Opens for Business Community of commercial drivers gains easy access to a range of discounted products and services. PHOENIX – January 17, 2023 – Trucker Path, the most comprehensive and most used mobile app for North American truckers, today announced the opening of its new in-app marketplace featuring discounts and special offers on products and services specifically for drivers. The offerings in the Marketplace are available and easily accessible by all members of the Trucker Path Community. “Our mission is to provide products and services that help our community of drivers operate more efficiently and to help make life on the road a little easier for them,” said Chris Oliver, CMO at Trucker Path. “The new Trucker Path Marketplace was developed to provide easy access to discounts from leading providers who offer products that not only help truckers go about their business more efficiently, but also help them with life’s essentials and comforts.” For the initial launch, the Trucker Path Marketplace features a set of offerings from trusted partners to coincide with this time of year, including healthcare and tax-related services. That list includes: • Telehealth Services (with the first 2 months free) • Discount Prescription Cards • Major Medical Insurance • Dental & Vision Coverage • Life Insurance • Accident Medical Coverage • Accounting Services • Tax Preparation “Making the Marketplace available right in the app our members already rely on for navigation, parking availability, finding food and hotels and many other services makes it very easy for them to access the discounts they deserve,” added Oliver. “With our partner providers, the Trucker Path Marketplace continues our mission to support truckers and make their lives on the road easier and more efficient.” Additional services and products will continue to be added to the Trucker Path Marketplace in the very near future. About Trucker Path Phoenix-based Trucker Path is the provider of a wide range of truck driver-centric mobility products. Its Trucker Path app is currently in use by over 1 million professional truck drivers. Offering best-in-class navigation with truck optimized routing, the Trucker Path app also provides access to vital up-to-date information about truck stops, real-time available parking, fuel prices, weigh station status, and truck scales and wash locations. The company also offers TruckLoads, a digital freight exchange that connects drivers, carriers and brokers; COMMAND™, the industry’s first and only Operations & Driver Relationship (ODR) platform that provides small to mid-size fleets with the necessary driver and TMS technologies to successfully run a fleet; and DISPATCH, a full-service dispatch service designed specifically to serve the back-office needs of small carriers and owner-operators. For more information, visit www.truckerpath.com. Media Contact: Susan Fall LaunchIt Public Relations 858-490-1050 susan@launchitpr.com

Jan 18, 2023

One-stop-shop: How a fledgling small fleet found organization, efficiency with TMS Published on Overdrive (overdriveonline.com) on November 10, 2022. Matt Cole – November 10, 2022 – Dorian Acosta Sr. started <a href="https://www.shippingteleporters.com/">Shipping Teleporters Trucking Company</a> as a family business in late 2020, after spending about a decade driving for other trucking companies. In May of 2021, the company got authority, and Senior turned the company over to his son, Dorian Acosta Jr., who had been handling paperwork and some other duties in the back office. Acosta Sr. still works for the Middletown, Connecticut-based company managing maintenance on their three trucks and four trailers, along with other duties around the business. “My dad, he’s my partner -- we’re right there neck-and-neck,” Acosta Jr. said. “He definitely introduced me into the industry. He had the primary trucking background.” When Acosta Jr. took over as CEO, it was a “baptism by fire,” he said, as he started handling the booking of loads, accounting, driver management and more. “I had no experience in the logistics industry until last year," he said. The company hauls a variety of freight, mostly working the spot market and primarily sticking to the tri-state area of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, and surrounding states. The company’s three trucks are a 2012 Freightliner Cascadia daycab, a 2011 Volvo VNL and a 2012 Kenworth T700. While the company owns a flatbed and walking floor trailer, the two dry vans butter the bread of the business, moving dry goods such as sugar, bottled water and more. Like many small fleet owners, Acosta Jr. had cobbled together a working system for back-office management that hinged in part on the QuickBooks accounting software. “I used QuickBooks for accounting purposes, and they also have an employee time-tracking side of their offerings where drivers can clock in and out to track their time,” he said. “Whenever I was dispatching a driver, I would include what time I needed them. I’d include in the comments section their truck and trailer number, where they have to go, the load numbers, everything.” He acknowledged that people with more experience in the industry “obviously would have known to sign up for some sort of access” to transportation management system (TMS) software, but he was “just learning as we went, dispatching drivers and putting information into the comment section” of the QuickBooks timesheet. “We made do, but we got to a really stressful point where, in April [2022] we ended up researching” TMS software to help the business run more smoothly, he said. After trial runs with a number of providers, Acosta decided to go with Trucker Path Command, which had just launched in March. Trucker Path, of course, has long offered an app geared toward operators that offers navigation, truck stop information, weigh station information, truck parking information and more, leaning on users to provide the in-app community with useful updates about specific locations. “Just the way everything was, the ease and functionality, being able to log in, dispatch a driver, provide them all the information, and they can upload the documents” made the decision easy for Acosta, who said he’s always valued a “one-stop-shop” approach, whether in business or as a consumer. Shipping Teleporters has used the DAT load board since its inception, but since choosing Trucker Path Command as its TMS software, Acosta has started to also rely on Trucker Path’s own TruckLoads board -- access to it is included in Command’s monthly fee. He’s also found great value in the system’s document management and scanning capabilities, through which drivers scan and upload paperwork, receipts and anything else that’s needed in the office. <img src="https://truckerpath.com/uploads/2022/11/Portal-300x152.png" alt="Rather than having to physically get the paperwork out of his trucks every day, or having his drivers text sometimes poor-quality images of the paperwork, Acosta and his operators now have access to intuitive tools for the purpose of sharing documents, stored for easy access all in one place." /> “Before everything was digitized, I was heading down to my truck lot to get paperwork for the drivers, putting proofs of delivery in there for them to get signed,” Acosta said. “Every single day after their load assignments, I would pick up paperwork from their trucks.” Now, he said, the drivers upload the paperwork for him to create invoices within the system, and with its integration with his QuickBooks, he’s able to automatically send invoices either direct to customers or to the factoring company he uses, Factoring Express. When using the load board and negotiating with brokers, Acosta said another valuable tool is a rate calculator that allows him to input all the relevant information to see what he needs to make on a load for it to meet his profit expectations. Command has also been helpful for his drivers, he added. Once he books a load through the software, he can dispatch his drivers by sending the load directly to their phones, and the drivers can use the Trucker Path app’s routing, or Acosta can route the drivers through the app himself to make their jobs easier. I can pull up points of interest -- weigh stations, places to eat and park, fuel stations” -- to help drivers find the best deal on fuel and more, he said. With crowdsourced fuel pricing information from the more than 1 million driver users of the Trucker Path app, managers using Command can send “the route that has the perfect fuel optimization to fuel up, tell them when and where,” said Tom Wulf, senior vice president of sales and strategic partnerships for Trucker Path. <img src="https://truckerpath.com/uploads/2022/11/Truck-Water-Tower-300x221.png" alt="While the company's primary focus is dry van freight, Acosta keeps the fleet's options open with a flatbed trailer, shown here hooked to the company's 2012 Freightliner Cascadia, and a walking floor trailer." /> With future growth in mind, Acosta believes Command will be an invaluable tool as he looks to grow his fleet, integrating in one system a variety of management tools -- from finding and booking a load to dispatching the driver and sending the driver route information, having the fleet’s Motive ELDs integrated into Trucker Path to track hours of service and location information for customers that want load updates, the document-management functions already described... The list goes on. Financial benefits are already apparent, he believes. The company grossed $106,000 from its launch in May of 2021 through the end of the year with two trucks (the third was purchased last December). This year so far, it's pulled in $275,000 in revenue, on pace to pass $330,000 by the end of the year. “It manages the rest of your operation,” Wulf said of Command. “It is a complete, robust system, and it can scale. If you’re a small fleet or owner-operator and you start growing, which is the goal in many cases, you don’t have to switch -- it can scale right with you.” Wulf added that the price point, given the combination of features, “is designed to make this affordable to even the playing field” for owner-operators and small fleets. Acosta agreed, saying that just having a subscription to multiple load boards prior to purchasing Trucker Path Command was more expensive than the monthly subscription. A Command subscription starts at $99 a month, which includes one Operator (manager) license and two Diamond-level Trucker Path driver app subscriptions, which are $29.99 a month if purchased by a driver. An additional Operator seat adds $50 to the monthly cost, and additional driver seats cost an extra $30. Discounts are also available once you surpass 10 drivers. “For everything that [Trucker Path] offers, I can’t believe how affordable the software is,” Acosta said.

Nov 16, 2022