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Lake Truck Lines Reduces Overhead Costs by 15 Percent with NexTraq

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Monday, December 3rd 2012
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Lake Truck Lines Reduces Overhead Costs by 15 Percent with NexTraq

Atlanta – November 28, 2012 - NexTraq, the value leader of GPS fleet tracking vehicle management solutions, announced today its client, Lake Truck Lines, has reduced overhead costs by 15 percent while optimizing fleet operations with the NexTraq® Fleet Tracking platform and the Fleet Dispatch application.

After researching different fleet tracking systems, Jerry Santos, General Manager of Lake Truck Lines, chose the NexTraq GPS Fleet Tracking platform along with the Fleet Dispatch application due to the ability to send messages through the in-vehicle Garmin device and the turn-by-turn capabilities. Santos said, “I liked that I was able to teach myself how to set everything up.”

Lake Truck Lines saw results within a couple months. Santos said, “Most of our job sites are in remote locations off dirt roads with no street signs, we use geographical markers to get our drivers there.” The NexTraq Fleet Tracking platform with the Fleet Dispatch application allowed Santos to send his drivers turn-by-turn directions through an in-vehicle Garmin device, resulting in drivers arriving to job sites on time and increased customer satisfaction.

Santos saw an additional benefit with the NexTraq Fleet Tracking platform. After receiving a customer complaint, Santos was able to investigate the claim and find the offender. Santos said, “This offender was costing the company valuable time and money, and we almost lost a customer because of it. I was able to pull up the evidence on the NexTraq Fleet Tracking platform to prove the claim.”

Mike Scarbrough, CEO of NexTraq, said, “The Fleet Dispatch application is a powerful tool that allows two-way communication between dispatchers and drivers. This is especially helpful if the destination is a job site in a remote location. With NexTraq, you gain a clear understanding of where your fleet is and where it’s going.”

For more information on the NexTraq Fleet Tracking platform, its applications – Fleet Mobile, Fleet Metrics and Fleet Dispatch, please visit http://www.nextraq.com or call us at 800.358.6178

About Lake Truck Lines Founded in 1949, Lake Truck Lines, a family-owned and operated business, began by delivering fertilizer to farmers. Under company President Douglas Cain, Lake Truck Lines moved from Houston to San Antonio and expanded its fleet size to 72 vehicles over the past 2 years. Currently, Lake Truck Lines works in the Eagle Ford Shale Play of South Texas. The NexTraq Fleet Tracking solution along with the Fleet Dispatch application has been a vital element in allowing that growth.

About NexTraq Established in 2000, NexTraq provides the highest value GPS fleet tracking solution in the telematics industry. The NexTraq platform is a cloud-based application that enables service and distribution businesses to optimize fleet operations while reducing operational costs and maximizing revenue. Based in Atlanta, NexTraq customers achieve ROI in as little as one month. For more information, please visit www.nextraq.com.

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Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map

The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State  before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.

In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:

With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.

In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:

So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.

She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.

The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:

 And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.

I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.

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