In Cab Scanning Receives Heavy Duty Trucking's Nifty Fifty Award


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In Cab Scanning by Microdea is a rugged, small foot-print document scanner that can be mounted in the truck cab. Drivers can quickly and easily send documents to third party carriers, customers or the carrier's document management provider/system.

Richmond Hill, ON (PRWEB) January 12, 2009 -- Heavy Duty Trucking Magazine's Nifty Fifty awards showcase their editors' picks of the best new products introductions over the last year. The 50 winners were selected from hundreds of new products articles appearing in the magazine and their online New Product News at: TruckingInfo.com : We've got trucking covered. Your Source for Trucking Information and News during 2008. Products were judged on their usefulness to the truck operator in terms of innovation, serviceability and performance.

"We are delighted to have been chosen for the Nifty Fifty award. We believe our investment with In Cab scanning will provide owner operators, carriers and other logistics organizations with a cost-efficient and reliable tool to quickly and economically reduce the costs of moving paper documents from the cab to billing operations," said Colin Ruskin, VP of Development, Microdea Inc.

"You can't make money until you invoice, so invoice as quickly as possible. This is true at all times, but especially during a recession or slow to no-growth times when you would like your company's cash cushion to be better," added Brooke Martin, Marketing Manager, Microdea Inc.

Dorothy Van Koughnett, comptroller for Berry and Smith Trucking Ltd, said Microdea's In Cab Scanning allows their company office to transmit cargo manifests, billing orders and other documents directly to drivers on the road. "You're always trying to find new ways of better communicating with your drivers," she said. "We want our drivers to be driving, not caught up on paperwork."

In Cab Scanning by Microdea is a rugged, small foot-print document scanner that can be mounted in the truck cab. Scanned documents are transmitted using the system's open interface and attached to In Cab communication systems, such as PeopleNet's g3 Services or other third party systems. Drivers can quickly and easily send documents to third party carriers, customers or the carrier's document management provider/system.

When integrated with Synergize, Microdea's document and workflow management solution, carriers can bill their clients within minutes of loads being delivered and signed for.

For more information, contact: Brooke Martin, Marketing Manager, Microdea Inc; Tel: 905.881.6071, ext. 259; bmartin @ microdea.com
 

thanks for the information this is great news since usa does use scanned logs now it will help the drivers out greatly. or such as myself since im the one that takes all the paperwork into the pilot or terminals to be scanned as soon as we get to said place.
 
There are already a few of these programs out there. The one I used with Crete was set up to where I could either take paperwork into the Pilot and have some lazy bad attitude fuel clerk do it for me and likely do it wrong, and be pissed off because they had to do it, or I could buy a scanner, install free software onto my computer, and do it myself.

After one week on the road and dealing with the Pilot's, I got me a scanner and quickly started doing this myself from the truck.
 
I used transflo, their software works on virtually any computer, XP, Vista, and I am sure i works on one of those Macs.

Printer/Scanner/fax combo, new, cost me just around $150. Could have gotten a cheaper one, but I was doing quite a bit of website work from my truck, and wanting a good printer/fax/scanner anyway, so I paid a little more.

You also need internet access in the truck.
 
where can a person get the scanner u got we have att aircard thats how im on so much or at least when i can b on line out here on the road. thanks bullwinkle
 

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