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Going down the lane

May 30, 2006

Rand McNally has announced the availability of a module for its IntelliRoute mileage and routing product that enables users to see the average rates along any given lane, thanks to its collaboration with Integrated Decision Support Corp.

Wendy Leavitt

“The Lane Rates tool allows you to select any point-to-point lane and see the average rates along it,” explains Bernie Hockswender, director of sales for Rand McNally Commercial Transportation. “The system can even tell you how much is due to fuel surcharges and how much is a true rate. IDSC gathers the rate information in the course of auditing millions of freight bills, fuel taxes and fuel surcharges and develops a rate index from the data. This index is what our IntelliRoute system uses to provide lane rate information on demand. It is useful not only for day-to-day operations, but as a planning tool to help carriers evaluate new lanes or make better-informed decisions about rate adjustments.”

This new module came in addition to two recently available modules: IntelliRoute Streets and IntelliRoute Fuel, a fuel purchase optimization system powered in part by FuelAdvice.com from IDSC.

For more information, go to www.randmcnally.com or by call 800-333-0136.

About the Author

Wendy Leavitt

Wendy Leavitt joined Fleet Owner in 1998 after serving as editor-in-chief of Trucking Technology magazine for four years.

She began her career in the trucking industry at Kenworth Truck Company in Kirkland, WA where she spent 16 years—the first five years as safety and compliance manager in the engineering department and more than a decade as the company’s manager of advertising and public relations. She has also worked as a book editor, guided authors through the self-publishing process and operated her own marketing and public relations business.

Wendy has a Masters Degree in English and Art History from Western Washington University, where, as a graduate student, she also taught writing.