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[Via Satellite 07-20-2016] Gulick Trucking has selected Orbcomm to provide telematics solutions for its mixed fleet of dry van and refrigerated trailers. Based in Vancouver, Washington, Gulick offers full-service truckload, dry van and refrigerated services across the continental United States for a wide variety of freight, including food, beverages, paper and wood products, and nursery stock.

Gulick is using Orbcomm’s telematics systems to track, monitor and control its fleet. The satellite operator’s end-to-end solutions include proprietary hardware and a web application with data reporting and analytics capabilities. Orbcomm provides Gulick with two-way temperature monitoring and control, fuel management, maintenance and logistics services, enabling the trucking company to increase in-transit visibility and utilization of its assets, gain fuel savings, mitigate product spoilage and ensure compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) upcoming “Food Safety Modernization Act.”

In addition, Orbcomm’s telematics solutions easily integrate with the TMW Suite dispatch software platform, providing Gulick with a centralized view of near-real-time asset location, temperature and sensor readings as well as alarm events through one system. Gulick intends to complete deployment of the telematics solutions across most of its fleet by the end of the third quarter of 2016.