Transportation.com to Provide Transportation Services for Used Equipment Dealers.Business Editors OVERLAND PARK Overland Park, city (1990 pop. 111,790), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City; inc. 1960. There is printing and publishing, and the manufacture of apparel, aircraft parts, cement, prepared foods, salt, chemicals, marine accessories, and signs. , Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2001 Transportation.com: 10K Used Equipment Network (UEN UEN Utah Education Network UEN Union for the Europe of the Nations UEN United Earth Network ) Dealers To Access Transportation.com API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. For Domestic and International Shipments Transportation.com, a global transportation management company, today announced it has formed an alliance with the Used Equipment Network (UEN) to provide domestic and international transportation services to its more than 10,000 used machinery and equipment dealers worldwide. Based in Hasbrouch Heights, N.J., the UEN publishes an on- and offline directory of dealers and used capital equipment for sale, focusing on metalworking, chemical processes, electrical and material handling. Through the alliance, its dealers will be able to access Transportation.com's Internet-based Shipment Manager(TM) service to ship anything, anywhere worldwide. Dealers will review shipping quotes, tender shipments, create bills of lading and track shipments -- all from a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . "Our dealers use our resources to sell approximately 50,000 pieces of equipment a year. Each piece requires highly reliable and often specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. transportation services," said UEN Publisher Jim Mack. "Our alliance with Transportation.com gives us a way to provide an essential value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. to our dealers." Keith McKay, general manager of Superior Machinery in Burt, Mich., was among the first UEN dealers to ship with Transportation.com. "I'm accustomed to dealing with about 15 carriers. Transportation.com offered very good rates and then bent over backwards to provide the service I needed for my customers," said McKay, who brokers used equipment sales between sellers and buyers. "I can't risk my business relationships on unreliable transportation services. Transportation.com gave me a positive experience that I would recommend to others." Transportation.com delivers its online shipping service to the dealers through an application programming interface (API). Dealers access the software over the Internet on UEN's Web site at www.buyused.com. Rich Hardt, Transportation.com senior vice president of corporate operations, said delivering the Shipment Manager technology via API gives customers such as UEN the ability to brand transportation services under their own name. "The flexibility of our software allows our customers to better service their customers," said Hardt. "Our goal is to offer a solution that meets the business requirements of a range of companies. We also act as an application service provider (ASP) to deliver Shipment Manager to many other customers." Mack said UEN had been approached by a number of companies to provide a range of services to its dealers but instead established an alliance only with Transportation.com. "We weren't interested in partnering with just any company to offer our dealers spurious spu·ri·ous adj. Similar in appearance or symptoms but unrelated in morphology or pathology; false. spurious simulated; not genuine; false. services with no real value. We took our time to find the right partner with a service that's a good fit for our dealer base," said Mack. About the Used Equipment Network The Used Equipment Network is part of Penton Industry Media, a division of Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PME PME Petites et Moyennes Entreprises PME Professional Military Education PME Pequenas e Médias Empresas (Portugal) PME Petite et Moyenne Entreprise PME Psychology of Mathematics Education PME Pi Mu Epsilon ). Penton Media (www.penton.com) is a leading global business-to-business media company that produces market-focused magazines, trade shows and conferences, and Web sites. The UEN publishes on- and offline resources for the used equipment market. The Used Equipment Directory lists more than 30,000 used capital equipment items offered for sale by more than 700 dealers. The Secondary Market Guide is a comprehensive resource for locating used equipment dealers in every major capital equipment market. It features more than 14,000 listings of used equipment dealers in over 40 major markets, and contains more than 3,000 dealer email addresses See Internet address. and 2,000 dealer Web addresses. About Transportation.com Transportation.com is a global transportation management company providing a broad range of traditional and Internet-based services to help shippers and carriers expand their businesses and achieve greater efficiencies and profits. The company offers worldwide shipment and transportation management services as well as network consulting. Transportation.com also offers asset disposal services including equipment auctions and classified advertising as well as carrier-specific services such as truck buying, insurance, financial management and compliance, and emergency breakdown and preventive maintenance The routine checking of hardware that is performed by a field engineer on a regularly scheduled basis. See remedial maintenance. preventive maintenance - (PM) To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes. See provocative maintenance, scratch monkey. . Transportation.com is funded by Yellow Corp. (Nasdaq:YELL), TL Ventures, an institutional venture capital firm, and Enertech Capital Partners, a private equity firm. The company's headquarters is in Irvine, Calif., and its Technology Center is in Overland Park, Kan. For more information, visit www.transportation.com. |
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