PORTLAND, Ore.--()--TransCore announces that Landstar System, Inc., one of the nation’s largest transportation and logistics services and ranked first in Fortune magazine’s 2009 list of “America’s Most Admired Companies” in the trucking category, has completed integration of TransCore’s CarrierWatch® monitoring service into their companywide transportation management software (TMS) system.
“Through this customized system integration with CarrierWatch, we are confident we supply Landstar’s independent sales agents with the most current safety and authority data on our contracted third party carriers.”
Landstar, long known for its safety-first culture, continues to deliver on its commitment to providing safe and compliant capacity providers to its customers. According to Sandi Edwards, Landstar’s vice president of Capacity Qualifications, “Through this customized system integration with CarrierWatch, we are confident we supply Landstar’s independent sales agents with the most current safety and authority data on our contracted third party carriers.”
CarrierWatch integration benefits to Landstar include:
- Regulatory due diligence systematically employed into the contract motor carrier selection process,
- Continuously providing Landstar independent sales agents with the most up-to-date FMCSA safety and authority carrier data,
- Paperless regulatory data retention on all carriers utilized.
Don Thornton, TransCore’s senior vice president of Freight Services, commented, “This technical collaboration with Landstar will serve as a model for other firms as they integrate critical carrier monitoring data into their TMS systems.”
About CarrierWatch
CarrierWatch is a monitoring service that provides shippers and freight brokers with an immediate, online method of validating and monitoring carrier credentials. At the heart of CarrierWatch is a database that stores key information on more than 270,000 North American motor carriers. CarrierWatch allows companies to avoid the risk of using unsafe, unauthorized or underinsured carriers and reduces the time-consuming paperwork that is normally a part of the hiring process. All subscribers to TransCore’s 3sixty Freight Matching services get free carrier monitoring tools including automatic notices on changes in authority, safety ratings, SafeStat SEA Scores or DOT-reported insurance changes. Subscribers can create a Watch List, receive email notifications, spot check individual carriers, print carrier snapshots for company records, identify bad carriers with the Alias search feature, and much more. CarrierWatch integrates with the TIA’s Watchdog service and is the only carrier monitoring service endorsed by TIA, the Transportation Intermediaries Association.
For additional information call 1.800.551.8847 or visit www.3sixty.transcore.com.
About Landstar:
Landstar System, Inc. is a non-asset based provider of integrated supply chain solutions. Landstar delivers safe, specialized transportation, warehousing and logistics services to a broad range of customers worldwide utilizing a network of agents, third-party capacity owners and employees. All Landstar transportation companies are certified to ISO 9001:2000 quality management system standards. Landstar System, Inc. is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Its common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market® under the symbol LSTR.
TransCore’s Commercial Technology Group is a leading provider of transportation solutions in the United States and Canada serving brokers, carriers, owner-operators and shippers with best-in-class products. Load boards include Loadlink in Canada and 3sixty Freight Match powered by the DAT Network in the United States, which has set the industry standard for the spot freight marketplace since 1978. TransCore’s asset tracking and in-cab communications solutions feature the industry’s fastest response times and state-of-the-art satellite networking. TransCore provides fleet compliance, distribution and intermodal services, automated carrier safety and insurance monitoring, truckload rate indices for contract markets, and the most popular broker logistics software. TransCore is also the largest global manufacturer of transportation-based radio frequency identification (RFID) applications with 37 million RFID tags and 58,000 readers distributed in more than 40 countries throughout the world. TransCore RFID products support the toll, traffic management, rail, fleet, access control, homeland security, and parking markets.
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