Smart trailers are making trucking more efficient
As trucking rolls into the high-tech 21st century, more advanced trailers are gearing up to make fleets more efficient, safer, and smarter.
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Trailer Intelligence: How SMART are today’s solutions?
Trailer maker Hyundai Translead unveiled a smart trailer system called HT LinkSense, which is intended to provide connectivity for all sensor and telematics providers.
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Vehicle Preparations for the 90-Day Sprint During the Winter Season
With the transitioning of seasons, it’s imperative to equip your tractors and trailers for the changing weather. Phillips Industries and Phillips Connect can help you prepare.
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Phillips Connect Welcomes Todd Wazny as Vice President of Channel Sales
Todd Wazny has joined Phillips Connect as vice president of channel sales. He brings more than twenty years of experience in telematics, logistics, and location services to his new position with Phillips Connect.
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Hyundai Translead introduces a new open-platform smart trailer solution: HT LinkSense™
Phillips Connect is partnering with Velociti for installation and post deployment proactive technology monitoring and repair service support for their trailer telematics solutions.
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Hyundai Translead Launches HT LinkSense
Trailer maker Hyundai Translead unveiled a smart trailer system called HT LinkSense, which is intended to provide connectivity for all sensor and telematics providers.
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The Smart Trailers Cometh (And Three Other Takeaways From TMC’s Fall Meeting)
It was the “technology” portion of ATA’s Technology and Maintenance Council’s namesake that took center stage at its 2021 Fall Meeting held in Cleveland this week. While that should come as no surprise, the focus of the technology might: trailers. From electrification to service to telematics, trailers saw a huge focus in boosting fleet productivity.
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As Trailer Tracking Matures, Fleets Are Utilizing This Data to Extract More Insights and Drive Further Efficiency Gains
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Phillips Connect Releases Two New Products That Safeguard Trailer Loads
Newport Beach, CA (September 7, 2021) – Phillips...
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Introducing the Industry’s First Wireless & On-Demand Cargo Camera
Phillips Connect is introducing an economical and easy-to-install interior cargo camera that captures the status of the load in real time.
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Trailer telematics: Beyond smart
"There are a lot of companies that are selling a connected or a GPS-enabled trailer and calling that a 'smart' trailer,” Phillips said. “The focus that we have at Phillips Connect is so much beyond that and so much greater. I think that we're light years beyond anything else that's coming out in the industry.”
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Phillips Connect Partners with Velociti for Installation and Post Sales Support
Phillips Connect is partnering with Velociti for installation and post deployment proactive technology monitoring and repair service support for their trailer telematics solutions.
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How To Win The Trailer Utilization Game With Telematics
With telematics dashboards, not only can a fleet catch a problem by monitoring real time conditions, but with historical data analyzed, trends can be seen that ultimately give a good basis for long-term adjustments that improve the ratio of benefits to liabilities for those trailers.
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EROAD partners with Phillips Connect to add market-leading trailer and asset monitoring
Adding Phillips Connect trailer telematics lets EROAD customers maximize trailer health and safety, uptime, and driver time.
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Jon Morrison Tapped as Strategic Executive
Jon Morrison, previously president of WABCO Americas and now CEO of J&M Strategic Insights LLC, has been tapped by Phillips Connect as strategic executive. In this engagement, Phillips Connect will draw on Jon's extensive experience in electronic vehicle control, electrification, vehicle telematics and advanced technologies to move Phillips Connect ahead as they significantly grow their market share in smart trailer solutions.
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Phillips Connect Wows Fleets with its Smart-Trailer Software
Phillips Connect’s cloud software was designed by fleets to provide simple GPS tracking and real-time visibility of trailer sensors. Easy to create customized dashboards with information that’s most important to each fleet, with the ability to easily diagnose and understand what’s happening with each trailer or the entire fleet of trailers.
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Now Offering Advanced ROI Analysis Tool for Selecting Smart-Trailer Sensors
Phillips Connect unveils ROIAssist™— a highly advanced and un-biased tool for accurately projecting cost savings and revenue impacts that come with various smart-trailer sensors.
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Phillips Connect Hires Vice President of Operations
Phillips Connect has hired Greg Jones as vice president of operations. In his new role, Jones will be responsible for directing the company’s operations to meet the increasing demand for their integrated fleet asset management suite of products.
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Phillips Connect Offers Flex-Pay Finance Options
Phillips Connect is partnering with Partners Capital Group to offer its customers Flex-Pay financing options for the purchase or lease of their trailer telematics hardware as well as data plan costs.
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Phillips Connect’s Smart7™ Remote Pre√, powered by an on-board battery, delivers a full scan of trailer load status and health, even when the tractor is unavailable.
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Phillips Connect Recognized by Heavy Duty Trucking as a Top Product Introduced During 2020
The Smart7™ Remote Pre√ from Phillips Connect has been recognized by Heavy Duty Trucking with a spot on their Top 20 list for products introduced in 2020.
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Phillips Connect Offers 8-Year Warranty with New Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensor Technology
Phillips Connect has entered into an exclusive agreement with STE North America LLC for their new TPMS sensor based on Micro.sp® technology.
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Importance of advanced trailer technologies for maintenance
Smart trailers can give fleets unprecedented access to the secret lives of trailers, but future connectivity needs will change the way we connect to trailers.
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New Smart7™ Integrated Telematics Hub Now Available for Installation on New Trailers
The Smart7 delivers a real-time comprehensive view of the status of a trailer using one integrated telematics hub, with all of the data available in one clean and consolidated web or mobile device user interface.
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Hirschbach Selects Phillips Connect and ConMet Smart Technologies for New Refrigerated Trailers
The sensor technologies chosen by Hirschbach will give them increased visibility to the health of their refrigerated trailers resulting in a significant increase to uptime and driver satisfaction to support their strong customer service initiatives.
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Phillips Connect Unveils Revolutionary Smart Trailer Solution
A tour of the website shares the results of a 5-year vision to simplify smart trailer technology creating unmatched cost savings and operational efficiencies for fleets.
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Integrating Data from an Infinite Number of Partners
Over the course of the last 92 years, Phillips has...
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Input your fleet’s historical data and receive ROI projections. Most customers have a payback period within months.
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InstallAssist™ was created to make the installation of high-tech trailer solutions simple for trailer builders and fleets. In mere minutes, learn how to easily connect InstalAssist and verify your fleet's devices, sensors and circuits.
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Smart Trailers Face a Huge Hurdle
Smart trailers can give fleets unprecedented access to the secret lives of trailers, but future connectivity needs will change the way we connect to trailers.
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Trailer Telematics: Where to Start and Where it’s Going
Trailers have been historically low tech, but now many fleets want to take advantage of high-tech telematics capabilities to upgrade these assets to get more from them. Where to start?
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Don’t Overlook These Trailer Maintenance Items
Trailers are often out of sight, out of mind, there are several areas that are often overlooked. We talked to fleet maintenance experts to uncover areas that may suffer from neglect.
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Phillips Connect Technologies launches expandable asset tracking solutions on Geotab Marketplace
With the addition of Phillips Connect on the Geotab Marketplace, the company says Geotab customers can access a suite of solutions that help to maximize driver time through enhanced asset visibility and utilization.
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Carriers accelerate tech strategies to emerge stronger from crisis
Load and route planning tools are far from the only technology fleets have been using to adapt to changes during the pandemic. Another area of focus has been using telematics data from truck and trailer assets.
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Phillips Connect expands trailer connectivity product line
CEO Rob Phillips outlined the company’s data communication roadmap for 2020 during a press conference in conjunction with the TMC Annual Meeting.
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TMC20: Phillips Connect Debuts Remote Pre-check Capabilities For Fleets
Kicking off a year that will be filled with telematics-related product introductions, Phillips Connect made several announcements at the TMC Exhibition, none more important than the debut of Remote Pre-Check.
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From tractor-trailer pairing to security: Phillips Connect details telematics solutions
Phillips Connect said that SmartPair enables tractor/trailer pairing. When the asset is attached to tractor power, the SmartPair will immediately start looking for nearby sensors.
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CIE Manufacturing, Phillips Connect partner up
Phillips Connect and CIE now will team up to deliver high-quality OEM chassis with “best-in-class” telematics solutions, offering end users intermodal chassis that meet today’s logistics and operational environment.
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New Tire Management Systems Go Beyond Traditional TPMS, ATIS
Jim Buell's data shows that best-in-class fleets run far more miles between tire-related roadside breakdowns than the average fleet in his database.
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Realizing the Future of Smart Trailers
Do you know the locations of all your trailers and what conditions they are in, at all times? The answer for most fleets is no, meaning millions of drivers and pieces of equipment across North America are not fully optimized.
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One of the largest trends in technology today is connecting machines directly — without humans in between. This is what IoT is all about, and it’s happening widely in the heavy duty trucking industry.
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How smart cities will improve trucking and the supply chain
A smart city is a framework, largely composed of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), to develop, deploy and promote sustainable development practices to address growing urbanization challenges.
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Phillips Connect acquires Connected Holdings
Phillips Connect has completed the acquisition of Connected Holdings, an industry-leading IoT (Internet of Things) intelligent services provider in North America.
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Phillips Connect to demo ChassisNet™ at the Marketwaves18 Conference
Phillips Connect will demonstrate ChassisNet™ as they strive to make the next cut to the Freight.Tech 25 list.
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Internet of Things Arrives in Intermodal
The domestic intermodal industry has long been plagued by an inability to accurately track and report, the status of a container in transit. Historically, that’s put intermodal at a disadvantage compared with over-the-road trucking, in which GPS-enabled cargo and equipment-tracking sensors have been widely adopted for over-the-road trailers of all types.
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Carriers, Suppliers Work to Boost Utilization of Cargo Sensors
The use of cargo sensors with trailer tracking is on the rise, suppliers said, while motor carriers work to improve utilization and boost driver satisfaction with the technology.
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Phillips Connect acquires Polish electrical components company
Phillips Connect, completed the purchase of Fortech Poland LLC, a manufacturer and distributor of quality 24v electrical connectors and cables for commercial vehicles with a broad and established customer base primarily in the European Union market.
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The Tales Trailers Tell: High-Tech Communications
Integrated trailer networking systems are streamlining the information flow from sensors throughout trailers today to make obtaining and acting on data easier for drivers, fleets, shippers and receivers.
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Taking On The Challenge of Creating the Ultimate Connected Smart Trailer
Phillips Connect, is developing TrailerNet™, an open, completely agnostic platform for consolidating all smart-trailer sensors (from any supplier) into one central hub, using one data plan to deliver alerts to the driver, and customizable fleet management dashboards to the fleet’s operations or dispatch teams.
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What trailer tracking technology can do for you
Why are more and more fleets investing in telematics? A telematics presence can provide valuable insight into trailers maintenance needs, help verify deliveries, measure trailer temperatures, and support dispatch teams in understanding how to maximize the efficiency of their fleets.
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Phillips Industries launches newest division
During a press conference held here at TMC’s 2017 Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition, Phillips Industries announced the launch of its newest division, Phillips Connect.
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