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Consolidated Fastfrate Enters Full Implementation Phase with BSM's SentinelFM Vehicle Tracking Solution
Consolidated Fastfrate Enters Full Implementation Phase with BSM's SentinelFM Vehicle Tracking Solution.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nWOODBRIDGE, ON, July 5 /CNW/ - BSM Technologies Inc, (GPS: TSX-V)\n(http://www.bsmtechnologies.com) a leading provider of secure vehicle and\ntrailer fleet management, high security vehicle tracking and surveillance\nsolutions, today announced that Consolidated Fastfrate, which had previously\nbeen identified in a January 2006 press release as a \"major Toronto GTA-based\nnational transportation company\", has now committed to the Canada-wide\nimplementation of BSM's \"SentinelFM\" vehicle tracking and locating\napplication. This includes divisions in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and\nMontreal. This will translate into 300 plus installations within the\nConsolidated Fastfrate Group.\nBased on a successful pilot project in January and the subsequent\nimplementation of an initial 53 \"SentinelFM\" units in the GTA, there was an\nimmediate realization of benefits to Fastfrate derived from BSM's \"SentinelFM\"\nsolution. Consolidated Fastfrate is now moving ahead with Vancouver and other\nmajor cities during the balance of 2006 for a fleet of over 300 tractor units.\nFastfrate has developed their own dispatch system. Data is captured through\nBSM's \"B2B XML SOAP\" interface for immediate position updates and other\nrelevant data from their fleet.\n\"With the BSM integration tools provided during the development and pilot\nphase, the implementation of BSM's \"SentinelFM\" tracking on Fastfrate's entire\nGTA fleet, Fastfrate realized the many ROI benefits and efficiencies for\nimproving customer service through knowledge and responsiveness and detailed\nreporting to aid in fuel savings for the transportation company. As a\nWeb-based ASP solution, benefits include fuel savings, no infrastructure\ncosts, accuracy, speed of data retrieval and robust reporting over the web,\"\nsaid Michael Bookbinder, Director Sales for TELUS at BSM Wireless.\nBookbinder, continued, \"The Toronto region-Head Office had initially\nimplemented BSM'S \"SentinelFM\" units on their entire Toronto pickup and\ndelivery fleet that included onboard and portable units for broker vehicles.\nFastfrate is now able to meet the Company's mission statement by providing\nfast, efficient and innovative customer service with performance level\nimprovements across Canada.\"\n\"BSM Wireless provided Fastfrate with all of the integration tools\nnecessary to integrat...