Best practices education helps trucking industry enhance profitability

MINNEAPOLIS, April 13, 2011 – PeopleNet, the leading provider of innovative and integrated onboard computing and mobile communications systems for effective fleet management, today announced that it again is the exclusive sponsor of the National Private Truck Council’s (www.nptc.org) Annual Private Fleet Benchmarking Survey. PeopleNet COO Brian McLaughlin explained, “Supporting NPTC’s efforts to exchange information and share best practices among its members is yet another way that PeopleNet demonstrates our corporate leadership in educating and serving the trucking industry to enhance their operations’ profitability. “

NPTC will present the 2011 Benchmarking Survey results and preliminary report at its annual conference next week in Cincinnati. The final report of the survey will be officially distributed to NPTC members later this year and will not be sold to non-members.

NPTC President and CEO Gary Petty said, “Having a leading company like PeopleNet that is highly engaged in the NPTC culture makes their corporate sponsorship a perfect fit.”

The Benchmarking Survey is designed to validate private fleet performance based on aggregate data groupings of peer companies; to identify areas of improvement and productivity gains, and to describe significant trends affecting private fleet practitioners. A key strength of the Survey is that the identity and substance of individual corporate information/data, once submitted to the NPTC, remains exclusively with the Council and is treated with upmost privacy, confidentiality, anonymity.

About PeopleNet
PeopleNet is exclusively focused on providing innovative Internet-based and integrated onboard computing and mobile communications systems to improve North America’s trucking industry’s fleet management.  Its products are used by nearly 1,500 truckload, LTL, private, and service fleets in the United States and Canada, including several Fortune 500 companies. Reputed for its customer-driven technological innovation, unparalleled flexibility, and proactive customer care, PeopleNet was the first major technology provider to offer Internet-based communications to the transportation industry 15 years ago.  Since then, the company annually reinvests 100 percent of its profits into the business for aggressively developing new products that continue to improve fleet management. Industry recognition of the company’s leadership includes: Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award, Inbound Logistics Top 100 Award; Food Logistics’ 100 Top Technology Solutions and Service Providers; Frost & Sullivan Market Engineering Award; and M2M Value Chain Award. For more information about PeopleNet and its products, call (888) 346-3486, or visit www.peoplenetonline.com.

About NPTC
Founded in 1939, the National Private Truck Council is the only national trade association exclusively representing the interests of the private truck industry and corporate/business private truck fleet management. NPTC is the premier marketplace of information, networking and skill building for private fleet professionals as it leads in shaping the future of corporate transportation.

For more information about the Council’s activities and programs, visit our website at www.nptc.org.