@Road Driver Logs Service Update Helps Customers Automatically Comply with New Department of Transportation Hours-of-Service Regulations.Business Editors FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2003 @Road (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 leading 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 ) services, today announced plans to release an update to its Driver Logs service to enable customers to comply with the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new Hours-of-Service (HOS) regulations. Effective January 4, 2004, HOS regulatory changes will include off- and on-duty time, driving time and cumulative restarts for all property carrying commercial drivers and motorcoaches. Intended as an enhancement to public safety, the new Federal rules state that a mobile worker may drive for 11 hours, following which he must spend 10 hours off-duty. Additionally, a mobile worker may not drive beyond the fourteenth hour after coming on-duty, following which he must spend 10 hours off-duty. For additional information visit the DOT website at www.fmcsa.dot.gov. Because @Road offers its services on a hosted basis, customers have access to up-to-the-minute enhancements to their @Road applications without the need to upgrade hardware or download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. software. Unlike other solutions that require users to install new firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. , download new applications or modify back-end systems, the @Road Driver Logs service update is designed to enable customers to automatically comply with the new HOS regulations. No user intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. will be required. "We design @Road applications to help customers reduce their costs of doing business," said Krish Panu, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of @Road. "We believe that the @Road Driver Logs service is a critical business tool for any commercial transportation company seeking to optimize optimize - optimisation operations and increase profitability. When the hours-of-service regulations change on January 4, our customers can be confident that their @Road Driver Logs service complies with the most current HOS requirements." About @Road(R) Driver Logs Service Launched in July 2003, the @Road Driver Logs service enables mobile workers to record electronically HOS information and duty status changes directly into their on-board On board usually means to be traveling on some vehicle. For example, Baby On Board. Compare with overboard. Metaphorically, the term on-board is often used to refer to some piece of technology that is integrated in a moving vehicle, for example: With the @Road Driver Logs service, companies can: -- Save money. Eliminate paperwork for mobile workforces and administrative staff. -- Reduce HOS violation risks. Know when mobile workers are near HOS limits. -- View current HOS any time, 24/7. Generate daily, weekly or monthly reports by mobile worker showing hours worked, hours available and regulatory violations. About @Road @Road (Nasdaq:ARDI) is a leading provider of mobile resource management (MRM) services, a rapidly growing category of productivity solutions 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 technologies, hosted software applications, 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 to help companies better manage mobile workers. Any size organization, in any industry or public sector, in which improving the productivity of mobile workers has an impact on revenue, expenses, customer service and competitive advantage, will benefit from @Road MRM services. Because @Road offers MRM services on a hosted basis, customers avoid expensive and complex software and IT infrastructure investments. Since @Road delivers services on a subscription basis, customers can experience a rapid and measurable return-on-investment. @Road delivers its MRM services to more than 117,000 mobile workers 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. every day. The company has headquarters in Fremont, CA, and networked data centers on both U.S. coasts. For more information, visit the @Road web site at www.road.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of @Road to successfully market, sell and support Driver Logs service, changes in the planned release date for the update to the Driver Logs service, ability of @Road to develop services that comply with a changing regulatory environment, 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/A dated July 29, 2003, Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. dated November 14, 2003 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. @Road is a registered trademark of At Road, Inc. iDT is a trademark of At Road, Inc. |
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