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PressurePro & PeopleNet Announce Integrated TPMS/Telematics Solution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Contact: 
Vanessa Zaroor 
Director of Marketing

Advantage PressurePro 
Phone: 816-887-3505    

FAX: 816-887-3705 
E-Mail:  
vzaroor@advantagepressurepro.com

 

 

PressurePro & PeopleNet Partner to Bring Market Integrated Tire Pressure
Monitoring Capabilities.  

Partnership strengthens PressurePro's ability to help fleets optimize
vehicle performance efficiency

 

Harrisonville, MO and Minneapolis, MN: April 14, 2010 - Advantage
PressurePro, provider of the market leading PressurePro Tire Pressure
Monitoring products and technology today announced their partnership with
PeopleNet, leading providers of Internet-based onboard computing and mobile
communications systems for the transportation industry. The partnership
enables PeopleNet to integrate PressurePro's advanced Tire Pressure
Monitoring capabilities with its legacy systems beginning with its BLUTM
in-cab PC. 

 

PeopleNet's Vice President of Integration Randy Boyles explained, "As the
first PeopleNet system with fully integrated Tire Pressure Monitoring, the
BLU in-cab PC will provide fleets with yet another tool for optimizing
vehicle performance efficiency with greater MPG, improved safety and lower
maintenance costs. Partnerships with leaders in complimentary technologies
help us provide our customers with an increasingly comprehensive array of
tools they need for minimizing cost drivers across their businesses." 

 

Utilizing the PLC network for communication between the trailer and tractor,
this integration will add Tire Pressure Monitoring to PeopleNet's existing
capabilities which include tracking, electronic onboard recording, vehicle
and driver performance management, automated driver workflow, electronic
hours of service and more. In addition, it will add trailer management
capabilities. The enhancement will be available by the end of the second
quarter.

 

"PeopleNet not only remains the leading mobile communications and onboard
computing provider, they are consistently known for their customer-driven
innovation and leading edge technology," stated Phillip Zaroor, President
and CEO of PressurePro. "As pioneers of TPMS we couldn't be happier to begin
working with PeopleNet to add new capabilities, including top-of-the-line
Tire Pressure Monitoring, to their already advanced line of products."

 

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PeopleNet and BLU are registered trademarks of PeopleNet Communications
Corporation. 

 

About PeopleNet

PeopleNet is exclusively focused on providing innovative Internet-based and
integrated onboard computing and mobile communications systems to improve
North America's trucking industry's fleet management.  Its products are used
by nearly 1,500 truckload, LTL, private, and service fleets in the United
States and Canada, including several Fortune 500 companies. Reputed for its
customer-driven technological innovation, unparalleled flexibility and
proactive customer care, PeopleNet was the first major technology provider
to offer Internet-based communications to the transportation industry 15
years ago.  Since then, the company annually reinvests 100 percent of its
profits into the business for aggressively developing new products that
continue to improve fleet management. Industry recognition of the company's
leadership includes: Inbound Logistics Top 100 Award; Food Logistics' 100
Top Technology Solutions and Service Providers; Frost & Sullivan Market
Engineering Award; M2M Value Chain Award and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of
the Year Award. For more information about PeopleNet and its
<http://www.peoplenetonline/ProductsServices.aspx> products, call (888)
346-3486, or visit  <http://www.peoplenetonline.com>
www.peoplenetonline.com.

 

About Advantage PressurePro, LLC.

Advantage PressurePro, LLC. is the developer and marketer of the PressurePro
Tire Pressure Monitoring System, one of the leading aftermarket TPMS systems
in the world. Involved in the TPMS industry since 1991, Advantage
PressurePro is noted as a pioneer of TPMS Technologies and the TPMS market.
Provides many advanced monitoring options, PressurePro was the first TPMS
company to add RS232, J1708 and J1939 communications capabilities as
standard across their product line, and were the first TPMS company to offer
remote monitoring options and fully automated monitoring for drop-and-hook
applications. The only TPMS company to design, develop and manufacture in
the USA, PressurePro remains dedicated to adding to the safety and savings
of the transportation industry. For additional information, visit
<http://www.advantagepressurepro.com/> www.advantagepressurepro.com. To
request information contact Vanessa Zaroor, Director of Marketing, at
(816)887-3505, email:  
vzaroor@advantagepressurepro.com.

 

 

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