@Road Offers Electronic Driver Logs and Automated State Mileage Report Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 2003 New Features Eliminate Paperwork, Improve Driver Efficiency and Reduce Violation Risks @Road(R) (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 services, today announced the availability of @Road Driver Logs, an automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. Hours of Service feature. Subscribers can now electronically record Duty Status changes and Hours of Service (HOS) information 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: Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Data Terminal(TM) (iDT(TM)), enabling them to be more productive by reducing paperwork, decreasing unproductive time spent at inspection stations and helping companies avoid violation risks. With @Road Driver Logs, companies can: -- Save money. Eliminate paperwork for mobile workforce and office staff. -- Reduce HOS violation risks. Know when mobile workers are near HOS limits. -- View hours of service in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. , 24/7. Generate reports by subscriber showing hours worked, hours available and regulatory violations. @Road also made available today a State Mileage MILEAGE. A compensation allowed by law to officers, for their trouble and expenses in travelling on public business. 2. The mileage allowed to members of congress, is eight dollars for every twenty miles of estimated distance, by the most usual roads, from his Report feature, enabling companies to automatically record how many miles each subscriber has traveled. The information from the State Mileage Report can be used when preparing state-mandated quarterly fuel tax reports. "@Road makes it easy for companies to automatically collect and instantly access the information they need to operate more intelligently and to eliminate redundant, error-prone tasks," 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. "By automating time-consuming tasks, such as log book completion and mileage reports, @Road customers can reduce paperwork, improve bottom-line profitability and realize a rapid return on their investment." Applegate Logistics, a transportation company that has been in business since 1945, is one of several companies that recently completed a pilot test with the @Road Driver Logs. "The electronic Hours of Service system is a critical business tool for any transportation or trucking company that needs to better manage operations and increase profitability," said Mike Applegate, president of Applegate Logistics and past president of the California Trucking Association. "Using the @Road Driver Logs service, our drivers saved a minimum of 15 minutes a day. When you calculate that out at one dollar per minute, times 50 drivers, we easily save $750 a day, simply by automating Hours of Service reporting." Improving subscriber safety and managing insurance costs are additional benefits realized by Applegate Logistics. "If every transportation company used @Road, drivers would operate vehicles at safer speeds," said Craig Ferreria, vice president of operations for Applegate Logistics. "Driving beyond legal Hours of Service would be eliminated, and overall highway and driver safety conditions would be dramatically improved." Companies can subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; Driver Logs and State Mileage Report services separately or as a combined service for one, two or three year terms. Price ranges for the combined service are $27.95 to $32.95 per month per subscriber, in addition to standard iLM(R) and iDT platform fees and GeoManager(SM) monthly service fees. About @Road @Road (Nasdaq:ARDI) is 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, 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 experience an immediate and measurable return-on-investment. @Road delivers its MRM services to more than 100,000 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, Calif., and secure 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 the Driver Logs, State Mileage Report and other services described in this press release, 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 31, 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 and Internet Data Terminal are trademarks of At Road, Inc. 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