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PHOENIX — Sales personnel can spend more time at shippers’ offices while staying connected to carrier headquarters with cloud-based services designed for BlackBerrys, smart phones and iPads, according to presentations made here by two less-than-truckload carriers.

Vigillo LLC, a software pro­vider of fleet safety information, has released a new product known as Inspection Management System, or IMS, to aid fleets in assessing the accuracy of roadside inspections.

Multi Service Corp. and McLeod Software are partnering to create a fleet fuel management data system.

Cadec Global Inc., a provider of in-cab computer services, has been acquired by investment firm BlackBern Partners, New York.

PeopleNet Communications Corp. told customers here its current mobile computers will likely be able to meet the government’s electronic onboard recorder requirements without hardware changes.

PHOENIX — Motor carriers have long feared disasters such as fires, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes because of their ability to snarl freight transportation, but with fleets now more dependent on computer systems than ever before, there is also an information technology component to disaster recovery.

Technology firms Qualcomm Inc. and Trimble Navigation Ltd. each posted higher earnings for its most recent quarter, while Xata Corp. reported higher software sales.

Volvo Trucks North America said Monday it will receive $19 million in federal funding to develop technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty trucks.

American Trucking Associations has asked the federal government to lower its 2012 and 2013 biodiesel blending requirement under the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Truckers and freight brokers who use freight-matching Internet load boards would do well to remember that in cyberspace, things are not always as they appear.