Hertz NeverLost Navigation Sponsor for Race Across America

PLANO, TX--June 3, 2011: Navigation Solutions has announced Hertz NeverLost® as the official Navigation Sponsor for the venerable 2011 Race Across America, a continuous 3,000 mile bicycle ride across the United States, starting June 14-18 in Oceanside, CA.

“We are proud to be the official Navigation Sponsor for RAAM and to support these outstanding athletes, their coaches and crew, and fans with Hertz NeverLost travel services and our state-of-the-art NeverLost GPS Gen5 system”

Hertz NeverLost makes the perfect teammate for RAAM crew and fans as they follow their favorite cyclists along the RAAM route. With its RAAM Online Trip Planning website, NeverLost offers cyclists and followers the ability to download the RAAM trip from NeverLost’s website by accessing http://www.neverlost.com/Favorites_Sports.aspx#Cycling-RAAM. Trips can be saved to a USB drive for inserting into a rented Hertz NeverLost Gen5 GPS unit on Hertz cars during the race period.

Created with the event in mind, NeverLost’s RAAM site takes the guess work out of finding restaurants near the 55 different Time Stations. Getting current weather conditions is a breeze using the NeverLost Gen5 device. NeverLost’s U.S.-based Travel Services Desk can also create the trip free for NeverLost customers and within minutes send it wirelessly to their NeverLost Gen5 unit. For RAAM’s international competitors and crew, NeverLost devices provide voice prompts in 10 languages.

“We are proud to be the official Navigation Sponsor for RAAM and to support these outstanding athletes, their coaches and crew, and fans with Hertz NeverLost travel services and our state-of-the-art NeverLost GPS Gen5 system,” commented Roger Stevens, CEO of Navigation Solutions.

Introduced in 1997, the Hertz NeverLost® system was the car rental industry's first in-car navigation system. NeverLost units provide turn-by-turn audio and visual driving directions to virtually all destinations in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. Millions of pre-programmed destinations of travel-relevant categories are included on NeverLost’s map database. NeverLost also develops and markets mobile travel apps for smartphones under My Explore brand.