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iTECH 鈥 The 鈥楬osted鈥 Alternative: How to Rent Software

Many software providers now 鈥渞ent鈥 their software to users who do their work through the vendor鈥檚 Web site. This is called an application service provider (ASP) model, and it is often offered as a less expensive alternative to buying a software package to be installed on the user鈥檚 own server.

January 2, 2007

Cross-Border Truckers Urged to Prepare for ACE

More cross-border carriers are getting ready to file electronic manifests before the U.S. Customs and Border Protection makes such filing mandatory as early as August.

April 24, 2006

iTECH: Wi-Fi Comes to Truck Stops

Wi-Fi "hot spots" are breaking out all over 鈥 maybe even at a truck stop near you.

November 7, 2003

Can Automation Help Make Ports More Secure?

Customs authorities overseeing U.S. ports want to focus more intently on cargo that poses a potential security threat. But to do that they need relief from the demands of monitoring millions of incoming containers deemed no danger.

September 10, 2003

iTECH: A Remedy for Trucking's Traffic Woes

Will there one be an INTI? The Integrated Network exists today in some measure in some parts of the country.

July 7, 2003

iTECH: Data Mining for a Wealth of Information

In the task of data mining, questions or 鈥渜ueries鈥 are analogous to the tools of the miner鈥檚 trade 鈥 a drill, a pickax, a shovel.

May 5, 2003

iTECH: Managing the Multifaceted Operation

To meet multiple demands of users involved in more than one segment of trucking, software providers strive for greater flexibility in their offerings.

March 17, 2003

iTECH: Smooth Operators

It鈥檚 been said that hiring a consultant can be like paying someone to look at your watch and tell you what time it is. But the people who form the management team at Double D Express do not subscribe to that notion.

March 10, 2003

iTECH: The Key to Trucking Intelligence

Tim Van de Merwe, internal logistics manager for Associated Food Stores, has a happy tale to tell. Like most such tales, it begins darkly, with the cooperatively owned wholesale distributor in Salt Lake City struggling to keep track of the trailers in its yards.

January 21, 2003

iTECH: The Right Stuff - Searching for Maintenance Software

If you want maintenance software, the first step is to recruit management to your cause. Then you can go shopping.

December 9, 2002