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What Automation Looks Like in a Rental Car Fleet

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Car rental is an unglamorous but revealing test case for vehicle automation. The fleet is mixed, the drivers change every few days, and the cars are handed to people who have never sat in them before. Almost none of the interesting automation in this sector is autonomous driving.

Australia offers a workable example of the scale involved. East Coast Car Rentals has operated since 1979 and runs vehicles from 14 city and airport locations.

The classes span economy hatchbacks, compact and intermediate cars, three SUV sizes and utes. There is also an 8-seater minivan, a 12-seater minibus and an electric line. A fleet with that spread has to be tracked, cleaned, serviced and repositioned continuously. [Read more…] about What Automation Looks Like in a Rental Car Fleet

Signs Your Business Has Outgrown its Current Work Vehicle

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Your crew made two trips back to the yard yesterday. Same as Tuesday. Same as the week before.

Nobody flagged it, because the truck started fine and got everybody home. That’s the thing about outgrowing a vehicle: it almost never announces itself with a breakdown.

It shows up as fifteen extra minutes here, a rented trailer there, a job you quoted but didn’t bid because hauling the material would have taken three runs. [Read more…] about Signs Your Business Has Outgrown its Current Work Vehicle

How Fuel Card Controls Can Reduce Fleet Spending Risks

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If you run a fleet, you already know that fuel is one of those costs that seems to slide around no matter how carefully you plan for it. Prices swing, routes change, and drivers fill up wherever it’s convenient.

Most fleet managers accept that as the nature of the business. What’s harder to accept, once you actually look closely, is how much of that “normal variance” is really just money slipping out the door unnoticed.

Fleet fuel cards were supposed to solve this. And in a lot of ways, they did – no more paper receipts, no more reimbursement headaches, a clean digital trail of every purchase. [Read more…] about How Fuel Card Controls Can Reduce Fleet Spending Risks

The Evidence That Can Start Disappearing After a Truck Accident

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After a serious truck crash, the wreckage gets most of the attention. Damaged vehicles are sitting on the road, emergency crews are working, and traffic may be backed up for miles. It feels like everything that matters is right there at the scene, waiting to be examined.

But some of the most useful information may exist somewhere else entirely. It could be stored inside the truck, sitting on a company computer, recorded by a nearby camera, or buried in maintenance and cargo paperwork. Some of those records won’t necessarily remain available forever.

That’s why truck accident evidence is so important surprisingly early. As vehicles are repaired, digital information changes, and ordinary business records move through retention systems, reconstructing what happened may become more difficult with time. [Read more…] about The Evidence That Can Start Disappearing After a Truck Accident

Predictive maintenance in the real world: Why service automation and rollout discipline matter more than models

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A predictive maintenance system can flag rising vibration, unusual temperature patterns, or a combination of signals that suggests a component is likely to fail. That may be technically impressive, but it does not reduce downtime by itself.

Someone still has to decide whether the signal matters, how urgent it is, what action should follow, and whether the equipment can keep operating safely in the meantime.

The harder part often starts after the model has raised the flag. The analytics layer is only one part of the system. [Read more…] about Predictive maintenance in the real world: Why service automation and rollout discipline matter more than models

Kapsch TrafficCom expands satellite tolling to the Netherlands

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Geo-location platform now operating in the Netherlands and Belgium

Kapsch TrafficCom has deployed its Geo Location Platform (GLP) for satellite-based tolling in the Netherlands, marking a key step in the expansion across European tolling domains.

The GLP is now operating in both the Netherlands and Belgium, where it is used to create tolling transactions through Kapsch TrafficCom’s own map-matching, trip-building and tolling contextualisation capabilities.

Justin Hamilton, director location based charging at Kapsch TrafficCom, says: “The expansion to the Netherlands is a key milestone because it shows that our technology is ready to support new tolling schemes at the level of accuracy and reliability that authorities and service providers require. [Read more…] about Kapsch TrafficCom expands satellite tolling to the Netherlands

Brain Corp reports 68 percent growth and surpasses 50,000 autonomous robots worldwide

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Brain Corp, a provider of operating systems for robots, has announced “strong global fleet momentum for the first half of 2026”.

This milestone underscores the growing role of autonomous robots as daily operational infrastructure across retail, logistics, airports, commercial cleaning, and inventory management.

In H1 2026, BrainOS-powered robots recorded 68 percent year-over-year growth in global deployments. Over the same period, the fleet logged more than 5.3 million autonomous operating hours, up 24 percent year over year, and autonomous coverage increased by 400 million square feet compared to the same period last year. [Read more…] about Brain Corp reports 68 percent growth and surpasses 50,000 autonomous robots worldwide

Dubai and Oxa launch autonomous logistics venture to deploy self-driving vehicles at ports and airports

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Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) and Oxa, a developer of autonomous vehicle technology, has announced the launch of SHIFFT, a joint venture that will establish Dubai as a global hub for autonomous logistics.

SHIFFT will incorporate self-driving technology into a fully integrated autonomous logistics and worksite intelligence product, enabling end-to-end operational deployment.

It will unlock productivity, efficiency and safety gains for customers – increasing operational resilience and output. [Read more…] about Dubai and Oxa launch autonomous logistics venture to deploy self-driving vehicles at ports and airports

Why Route Planning Sits at the Heart of Last-mile Transformation

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Last-mile delivery is the most expensive, most visible, and most operationally complex part of the supply chain. It accounts for up to 53% of total shipping costs.

It is where customer promises are either kept or broken. And it is the segment under the most pressure from rising delivery volumes, tighter time windows, and customers who now expect real-time visibility as a baseline.

Technology investments in the last mile have accelerated across warehouse automation, telematics, and customer communication. But none of those investments produce consistent results without one thing underneath them: a strong route planning foundation. [Read more…] about Why Route Planning Sits at the Heart of Last-mile Transformation

Autonomous Trucking and Liability: Who’s Responsible When a Self-Driving Truck Crashes?

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As autonomous trucking pilots continue expanding across highway corridors in Texas, Arizona, and California, the legal industry still hasn’t settled a fundamental question that becomes more urgent with every new deployment: when a self-driving truck causes a crash, who’s actually liable? [Read more…] about Autonomous Trucking and Liability: Who’s Responsible When a Self-Driving Truck Crashes?

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