Striving to Meet Fleet Transportation Needs
AmeriFleet was born from a desire to do vehicle transport with a keen focus on quality and customer service, and they're still striving to provide the best fleet vehicle transportation.
San Francisco Entrepreneur Aims To Make Parking ‘A Delight’ With On-Demand Valet
Curtis Lee never expected to have a career in parking. But after a stressful night circling the block around his favorite San Francisco restaurant for more than 30 minutes and finally finding a spot almost half a mile away where he had to endure the honking of impatient drivers as he parallel parked all the while living in fear of losing the dinner reservation that he had made two months in advance, he knew there had to be a better way.
When he and his wife finally sat down at their table at Nopa, he asked the waiter for a pen and on the back of a napkin sketched out the idea for Luxe Valet, a free app that offers on-demand valet parking and which officially launches today in San Francisco after six months in beta.
“Circling is not good for anybody,” says Mr. Lee, adding that in San Francisco it takes an average of 27 minutes to find parking. Find the wrong parking and you can join the 70,000 cars that were towed last year in San Francisco. So, 18 months ago Mr. Lee and his co-founder, Craig Martin, set out to make parking “a delight.”
Auto Industry Forming Consortium to Fight Hackers
Automakers are forming a consortium to deter hackers who might try to breach a vehicle’s security system -- an effort that has gotten the blessing of federal regulators.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers are helping to coordinate the effort, said David Strickland, the former director of NHTSA who now is a consultant for Venable LLP.
Automakers want to create secure firewalls for vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and also for vehicle data links to “the cloud.”
Was Your Car Stolen? Stop the Thieves in their Tracks with a Simple SMS
What would you do if your car had just been stolen? Take out your phone and call the police? Sure, you could that, but what if instead of asking authorities for help you simply sent a text message? Moreover, what if that SMS went straight to a hidden device inside your car and immediately immobilized the vehicle's engine?
True, the thieves could still get away, but you'll know at least that you have good chances of recovering your stolen vehicle.
This anti-theft solution is the latest service offered from Kenyan entrepreneur Kelvin Macharia Kuria, founder of Nairobi-based car security company Sunrise Tracking.
Why Pest Control Companies Track Their Trucks
Pest control companies are using fleet tracking to gain insight into their fleet’s activity and solve their most difficult business challenges. Fleet tracking solutions, like GPS Insight, can help your pest control business provide proof of service, prevent labor fraud, improve route efficiency, enable quick response times, and more.
