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New for 2010

Our new Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ now features more than 10,000 trucking specific points of interest covering not only the USA but new for 2010 also Canada as well!
The Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ features the largest and most accurate trucking specific POI database available today.
Includes more than 4600 truck stops, including all of the major franchise truck stops, plus over 3600 independent truck stops!
Includes more than 2100 rest areas, turnpike service plazas, and picnic/parking areas, more than 2200 Wal-Mart Supercenters, and 929 weigh station locations!
The Truck Stops Plus 2010 template not only includes all 112 Blue Beacon Truck Wash locations in the USA and Canada, but new for 2010 all of the Speedco locations in the USA are now included as well.
The Independent Truck Stops category is divided into the Independent Truck Stops category and the Independent Truck Stops w/Scales category, which makes searching and routing to truck stops with scales much easier and faster.
The Truck Stops Plus 2010 template with the Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ also features the only trucking specific POI database that has been specifically designed for professional drivers and contains the pertinent information professional drivers need the most, like if it is a small, medium, or large truck stop, whether the truck stop has a truck scale or none, whether it does major repairs, minor repairs only, or no repairs, whether it charges for overnight parking, etc.
Also with the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template you can easily check for Restricted Routes and Low Clearances right from the convenience of your laptop screen without a Motor Carrier Road Atlas (MCRA) and no Internet access required!
Plus our entire Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ has been completely updated for 2010!

With today's skyrocketing fuel prices nothing will help you minimize out of route miles better than the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template combined together with Microsoft Streets & Trips or MapPoint. If you are serious about saving money, then the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template which features our Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ is an absolutely indispensable tool you can't afford to be without!

Product Overview

The Truck Stops Plus 2010 template features our Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ that transforms the popular Microsoft Streets & Trips and MapPoint routing and navigation GPS software into easy to use trucker’s software. The Truck Stops Plus 2010 template is an add-on template that replaces the standard out of the box templates that comes with Microsoft Streets & Trips and MapPoint with a special template called the Truck Stops Plus 2010 that contains more than 10,000 trucking specific points of interest, including more than 4600 truck stops, which includes all of the major franchise truck stops plus more than 3600 independent truck stops. Also included are more than 2200 Wal-Mart Supercenters, more than 2100 rest areas, turnpike service plazas, and picnic/parking areas, 929 weigh station locations, 112 Blue Beacon Truck Wash locations, and new for 2010 all of the Speedco locations in the USA. The Truck Stops Plus template is a first of a kind high tech truck stop guide and Wal-Mart Supercenter locator tool on steroids, and together with Microsoft Streets & Trips or MapPoint it will handle all of your routing and GPS navigation chores. It’s everything you need plus much more!

With the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template and our Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ you can search and route to any of the points of interest contained in the POI database, such as the nearest truck stop with truck scales, in a small fraction of the time that it takes to do it the old fashioned manual way using a truck stop guide and a Motor Carrier Road Atlas (MCRA). As a matter of fact, you can search for every trucking specific point of interest located within a 50 mile radius of your present location or an anticipated location with a single right click. Or you can choose to search for every trucking specific POI along your entire route. Searching and routing to truck stops and other trucking specific points of interest has never been made so easy.

Plus we all know that sometimes finding a truck stop can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack! With the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template and our Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ you can drive with complete confidence, since you will never struggle to find another truck stop ever again! Because each truck stop in the Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ is professionally geocoded with precision in its correct and accurate location for pinpoint accuracy, Microsoft Streets & Trips and MapPoint will guide you there while giving you precise voice guided and visual turn-by-turn directions so that you can spend more of your time paying attention to the road and concentrating on being safe, and less of your time trying to find hard to find truck stops that you may never be able to locate otherwise. Thus, it is an absolutely indispensable tool especially for newbie drivers just beginning their professional driving career.

But that’s not all you will be able to do! With the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template you will also be able to relegate your Motor Carrier Road Atlas (MCRA) to backup status, because you will be able to easily check for restricted routes and low clearances right from the convenience of your laptop screen without an Internet connection, making it not only much easier but many times faster as well. In addition, you will never use an antiquated Truck Stops Directory ever again, nor will you want to.

Also, while you are traveling in GPS navigation guidance mode you will be able to see over the horizon for miles ahead in advance! With the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template you will be able to see all oncoming truck stops, Wal-Mart Supercenters, rest areas, turnpike service plazas, weigh stations, etc. contained in the template for miles ahead in advance as you are traveling down the roads of America and now in Canada as well. You will never check a truck stop directory or Motor Carrier Road Atlas (MCRA) again while you are driving! It’s like having your own personal advanced high tech radar system right there in the truck with you. Thus, if you work for a company that doesn't allow pullovers of any kind except for emergencies, the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template could be indispensable for you.

In addition, finding pertinent information on each of the truck stops is as simple as right clicking them on the map, because each truck stop is cataloged so that you can easily check its name, its specific location information, whether it is a small, medium, or large truck stop, whether it has a truck scale or no truck scale, whether it does major repairs, minor repairs only, or no repairs at all, and whether or not it charges for overnight parking. Right clicking the Wal-Mart Supercenters will not only give you the exact store address but also the telephone number as well. Further, right clicking the turnpike service plazas will also give you their name, their specific location information, truck parking size, and food offerings. It’s everything you need at the click of a button. Trucking never made so simple!

Further, our Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ is far more accurate than the POI databases contained in portable so-called truck specific GPS devices because our POI database has been professionally geocoded with precision to their correct and accurate locations for pinpoint accuracy. Whereas other POI databases, on the other hand, have been geocoded by addresses, and more often than not POIs geocoded by addresses are off anywhere from several hundred yards to even miles in some extreme instances. For professional drivers of commercial motor vehicles pinpoint accuracy is of critical importance because inaccurate POIs can potentially force professional drivers to drive many miles out of route looking for a safe and legal place to turn around or worse. Not to mention that the Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ is the only POI database that has been specifically created, designed from the ground up, and tailored especially for professional drivers.

Combine the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template and our Truck Stops Plus North American Truck Specific POI Database™ with Microsoft Streets & Trips or MapPoint and together you have the best GPS routing and navigation solution available for truck drivers that money can buy!

New! Try before you buy. Download and evaluate for free: The Truck Stops Plus Demo

Download: Truck_Stops_Plus_Demo.pdf

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(For info on how to import any data into the Truck Stops Plus 2010 template you may have personally added to previous versions of the Truck Stops Plus template see our FAQ webpage.}

Study: GPS Could Save Trucking Industry $53 Billion

Motorola recently conducted a survey and turned up some notable results regarding the use of GPS:

Fuel cost savings: Nearly 50 percent of enterprises name reduction of fuel consumption as the number one benefit of using GPS -- reflected in a reduction in travel distance by an average of 231.2 miles per week and recording $51,582 in annual fuel saving.
Nationwide savings potential: With more than a million trucking carriers in the United States, the potential industry-wide annual fuel savings could reach $53 billion.
Time savings: Enterprises deploying GPS-enabled technologies saved an average of 54 minutes per day – translating into an annual recouped labor savings of $5,484 per employee or $5.4 million per enterprise.

"Field mobility workers in the transportation and trucking industry are experiencing difficulties such as locating stops, reducing fuel expense, and improving on-time performance resulting in a drain on financial and manpower resources of their organization," said Jim Hilton, director of field mobility, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Enterprise Mobility business. He ain't kidding.

Everyone understands how miles per gallon equates to money spent or saved getting from here to there. For those who make a living on the road, saving MPG can mean life or death for the business. GPS and location-based services are one way to help keep costs down.

Source: www.informationweek.com