@Road Announces Customer Wins in Transportation and Distribution; Businesses Are Turning to @Road for Mobile Resource Management Solutions That Can Help Them Drive Down Fuel Costs and Increase Operational Efficiencies.FREMONT, Calif. -- @Road(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:ARDI ARDI Association Rwandaise pour la Promotion du Développement Intégré (French) ARDI Accounts Receivable Dollar Inventory ARDI Action Rwandaise pour le Developpement Integre ARDI Annually Renewable Disability Income ), a global provider of Mobile Resource Management (MRM MRM Marketing Resource Management MRM Mobile Resource Management MRM Metabolic Response Modifiers MRM Multiple Reaction Monitoring (mass spectrometry) MRM Mormonism Research Ministry MRM Mechanically Recovered Meat ) and intelligent field service automation solutions, today announced recent customer wins in the transportation and distribution industry. @Road provides the transportation and distribution industry with integrated, end-to-end MRM solutions, including the @Road Transportation and Distribution Suite, which can help streamline operations, increase driver productivity and improve operational effectiveness. Recent @Road customer wins in the transportation and distribution industry include: --Beacon Roofing Supply --Big 5 Sporting Goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport --Builders Material Transport, Inc. --Kleenco Construction --One Transportation Services, Inc. --Reliable Wholesale Lumber, Inc. "With increasing fuel and operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales , driver shortages and regulatory mandates, managers of for-hire carriers and private fleets face new challenges as well as new opportunities to prosper and succeed," said Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Jolicoeur, @Road chief marketing officer. "Using integrated GPS, Internet and wireless technology, @Road offers MRM solutions to help transportation and distribution companies cut costs, improve operating efficiencies and meet regulatory compliance while increasing customer responsiveness and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ." The @Road family of advanced MRM solutions, such as the @Road GeoManager(SM) iLM(R), @Road Pathway(SM) iLM, @Road Portico portico (pôr`tĭkō), roofed space using columns or posts, generally included between a wall and a row of columns or between two rows of columns. (SM) iLM and @Road Transportation and Distribution Suite, can enable businesses to drive down costs and increase the productivity of mobile workers through greater visibility into the daily activities of their mobile resources -- from actual vehicle routes, starts and stops, to customizable maps showing mobile resource locations relative to important landmarks. @Road MRM solutions also permit businesses to upload customer and/or trip information into a routing engine and generate on-demand, actionable reports such as optimized routes for drive-time, fuel economy, city ordinance compliance and much more. "These recent customer wins in the transportation and distribution industry reinforce our position as a leading provider of MRM solutions," Jolicoeur said. "We believe our product offerings for @Road MRM solutions in a number of key vertical markets, including transportation and distribution, will continue to attract new customers seeking to streamline operations, reduce fuel and other operational costs and improve their competitive position." About @Road @Road, Inc. is a leading global provider of solutions designed to automate the management of mobile resources and to optimize the service delivery process for customers across a variety of industries. By providing real-time Mobile Resource Management infrastructure integrating wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , location-based technologies, transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. and the Internet, @Road solutions are designed to provide a secure, scalable, upgradeable, enterprise-class platform, and are offered in on-demand software See SaaS. delivery, on-premise or hybrid environments that seamlessly connect mobile workers in the field to real-time corporate data on demand. @Road provides Mobile Resource Management solutions to approximately 160,000 subscribers and end users around the world. The company is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., and has a global presence with offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information on @Road solutions, visit www.road.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. These factors, risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, customer acceptance of the @Road Transportation and Distribution Suite and other solutions; the ability of @Road to accelerate or continue to grow as a result of its investment initiatives; the ability of @Road and its alliances to market, sell and support @Road products and services; the timing of purchasing and implementation decisions by prospects and customers; competition; the dependence of @Road on mobile data systems technology, wireless networks, network infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by others; and general economic and political conditions. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. dated March 15, 2005, in the @Road Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. dated August 9, 2005 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road and iLM are registered trademarks of @Road, Inc. The @Road logo, @Road GeoManager, @Road Pathway and @Road Portico are trademarks or service marks of @Road, Inc. All other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. |
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