Prism Business Media acquires trucking industry info provider.Prism Business Media (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) has acquired the assets of Transportation Technical Services, Inc. (TTS (1) See text-to-speech. (2) (Transaction Tracking System) Software that monitors a transaction until completion. In the event of a hardware or software failure, it ensures that the database is brought back to its former state before the attempt to ; Fredericksburg, VA), a trucking industry information and data source. No terms of the deal were given. TTS produces trucking industry databases and directories, and operates FleetSeek, a customized web vertical search engine A Web-based search engine that indexes content specialized by location (local venues and activities), by topic, typically for consumers, or by industry, geared to businesses (B2B). that provides detailed information on more than 200,000 trucking operations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The company gathers, develops and analyzes information on trucking operations for use by a wide range of companies that market products and/or services for the industry, including truck manufacturers, transportation logistics companies, banks, insurance companies and industry analysts. In addition to FleetSeek, TTS currently produces eight major database/directory products, including "National Motor Carrier Directory," "Private Fleet Directory," "Canadian Motor The Canadian Motor was a Canadian electric car manufactured from 1900 until 1902. Billed as being "ideal for any first-class automobilist to drive", the cars could travel up to 45 miles on one change of their batteries. Carrier Directory," "Mexican Motor Carrier Directory," "Owner-Operator Directory," "Blue Book of Trucking Companies," "Motor Carrier Routing Directory" and "National Truck Dealer Directory." TTS will become a part of Prism's Auto/Truck group, a division whose current product brands include "American Trucker," "Bulk Transporter," "Fleet Owner," "Refrigerated re·frig·er·ate tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates 1. To cool or chill (a substance). 2. To preserve (food) by chilling. Transporter," "Trailer In communications, a code or set of codes that make up the last part of a transmitted message. See trailer label. Body Builders," "Truck Blue Book," "Ward's Auto World," "Ward's Dealer Business" and related conferences and trade shows. Prism group president Tom Duncan said the deal "extends a 15-year partnership with TTS on co-marketing projects and the development of trucking's only national private fleet directory, and represents an ideal data-focused complement that will further strengthen our trucking and automotive offerings." |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion