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Maptuit and GeoLogic Solutions Announce Partnership to Support Hybrid and Multi-Mode In-Cab Truck Navigation
Maptuit NaviGo to be Available Through GeoLogic’s New Color Display Unit
Burlington, Mass. and Herndon, Va. – October 18, 2006 – Maptuit Corporation, the leading provider of truck routing, vehicle tracking and traffic services, and GeoLogic Solutions, the leading provider of multi-mode communication and tracking systems for the trucking industry, announced today a strategic partnership to offer Maptuit NaviGo
™ over GeoLogic’s new CDU (Color Display Unit), a Windows®-based touch screen display featuring a high resolution graphical interface.
“This announcement reinforces Maptuit’s strategy to create an improved driver experience by delivering our content on the leading multi-mode (satellite or cellular) on-board device with touch screen operation and GPS capabilities,” stated Jeff Papows, president and CEO of Maptuit. The result of this collaboration will be one of the market’s most sophisticated on-board computer solutions available to date.”
Maptuit NaviGo provides truck drivers with a safer and better driving experience by taking Maptuit’s technology and its community of 80,000 drivers, who continually send updates to our road network, and combining it with GeoLogic’s state of the art technology. Maptuit Navigo utilizes internal electronic maps to gauge the vehicle's location and plot a course to a selected destination to provide drivers with audible truck specific, real-time, turn-by-turn directions.
“Over the past seven years,” continued Papows, “Maptuit has been providing trucking companies with the most dynamic, real-time, truck specific routing available in the market, and now we will be offering our brand new Maptuit NaviGo solution through GeoLogic’s multi-mode solution. Working together to bring these combined solutions to market provides fleets, and more importantly, the drivers, with a fully integrated in-cab navigational solution and a completely new driving experience that until now only existed in luxury automobiles. We are very excited about our new partnership with GeoLogic and even more excited in bringing change to an industry that has, for years, been waiting far too long. The technology is here and it’s time it’s put to use for customers’ benefits, and not held captive to previous economic models.”
“When we were designing our new CDU we knew it had to be an open system so that we could easily integrate the latest and greatest applications, like Maptuit’s new NaviGo,” stated John Lewis, president and CEO for GeoLogic Solutions. “We spent a great deal of time evaluating all of the major mapping providers to determine which solution was best for us and Maptuit was the obvious leader in onboard navigation targeted specifically for the trucking industry. We look forward to delivering this new mapping solution to our customers.”
About Maptuit Corporation
Founded in 1999, Maptuit Corporation provides truck specific, real-time, turn-by-turn directions for the trucking industry, tracking and traffic services for the transportation and consumer markets. With Maptuit’s advanced real-time web services and patented technology, companies benefit from the ability to easily look up addresses, create maps, perform proximity searches, generate optimized routes and provide directions. For more information please visit www.maptuit.com.
About GeoLogic Solutions
GeoLogic Solutions provides the commercial trucking industry with wireless asset management solutions that reduce operational costs while increasing overall efficiency. MobileMax™, the leading mobile communications and tracking system to utilize both cellular and satellite-based networks, is installed in hundreds of fleets across the U.S. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, GeoLogic is also a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) and provides third-party wireless data services through its CrossBridge Solutions platform. For more information go to www.goGeoLogic.com or www.CrossBridgeSolutions.com .
Media Contacts:
Susan Fall
LaunchIt Public Relations
858-490-1050
susan@launchitpr.com
Carlos Bernal
Maptuit Corporation
781.685.4693
carlos.bernal@maptuit.com
Maptuit is a registered trademark in the United States, and Maptuit, FleetNav, FleetNav Express and other names or logos identifying the services are trademarks or service marks of Maptuit Corporation.
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