Brest, France, March 27^th 2012: STAF chose Vehco’s fleet management solution (formely ELOmobile) to equip their heavyweight vehicles (450 trucks and 450 semitrailers equipped with refrigerating units from Carrier Transicold). The selected solution allows the integration of the data in the customer’s TMS from the onboard computer (for social management of the drivers, management of the vehicles, and management of the orders of transport) and the complete traceability of the cold chain.

STAF, under the direction of Mr. Kara Mendjel, is a step ahead in the development of technologies used to improve the quality of services of goods transport and to decrease their environmental impact.  After a technological proof of concept, the agreement should evolve on a partnership of development aiming at integrating the data of the cold equipment Carrier Transicold in the onboard computing of Vehco. Import of the cold equipment data and import of the trailers sensor’s data in real time, as well as the integration with the TMS: all the indicators will be at the disposal of the carrier.

Vehco equips today key actors of cold transport (Montmur group of Patrick Lahaye, Salesky, Plein Sud, Systèmes U…) and for Frederic Serre, Chief Executive Officer of Vehco France “our partnership with STAF will allow us to go even further and to acquire thanks to the interfacing with Carrier Transicold complementary competences, very useful for all our customers of the cold segment, such as for example the members of the French UNTF. On his side, Kara Mendjel comments “thanks to the partnership with Vehco, we will offer to our customers a more complete traceability and a better security of goods transportation. During the pilot, the specific solutions for the cold transport, the scalability of the solutions Vehco, the professionalism of the teams and their capacity of commitment made the difference”.

For more information : 

http://www.staf-transports.com/

http://www.carriertransicold.eu/

Vehco will equip the CANAVESE heavy weight vehicles with its fleet management solution

Brest, France, on January 17th, 2012: Vehco France (ELOmobile - Vehco group) has just won the contract to equip the integrality of the group CANAVESE fleet with its on-board management solution ELOcom. The integration of this equipment on the 100 heavy weight vehicles of CANAVESE group will enable the French carrier to optimize the distribution of its fruit and vegetables. The signing of this second contract within the grouping CRENO, confirms the success of VEHCO product range on the French market and reflects the increasing need for productivity gain in the world of transport.

CANAVESE Group chose the on-board solution ELOcom for a total and effective management of its fleet: management of the drivers, optimization of the rounds, reduction of the incidents and reinforcement of its policy on eco-driving. The trucks will be equipped with the last generation of computer of the ELOcom range, with a tachygraphy interface for the social data, a CANBUS interface for the technical data, a 7 inches touch screen for enhanced ergonomic, a help to navigation and a software suite that in particular allows the exploitation and the social management of the drivers until the pre-pay stage. “We chose ELOmobile of VEHCO group for the quality and the tested reliability of its management solutions both for social aspects and eco-driving. In particular, the eco-driving module enables us to save on fuel, to reduce our CO2 emissions thanks to a responsible driving thus allowing faster return on investment. The commitment of the ELOmobile teams was a decisive point in our final choice” indicates Jean-Pierre Canavese, Chief Executive Officer of CANAVESE group.

For the French-Swedish Vehco group, which integrated the ELOmobile company in 2011, this new agreement confirms the interest of the carriers who place themselves in a logic of sustainable development for a fleet optimization solution that integrates 10 years of know-how in social management (ELOmobile) and 10 years of know-how in eco-driving (Vehco Sweden). Frederic Serre, Chief Executive Officer of Vehco France comments: “we are proud to have concluded this agreement following a 7 months pilot and a solid collaboration between the teams. CANAVESE group is the second carrier of the grouping CRENO after TRANSPORT LE SAINT to trust our solutions. This new agreement opens new opportunities, since CRENO is the first French grouping for the wholesale of fresh fruits and vegetables. This shows the capacity of our solutions and of our teams to meet the very specific needs for the various market segments.”  

More on the Canavese group : www.canavese.fr

More on the Vehco Group : www.vehco.com and www.elomobile.com

Transports Vallee selects ELOmobile to otpimize their fleet management

Brest, France, on January 5th, 2012: Vehco France (ELOmobile - Vehco group) and Transports Vallee finalized the deployment of the ELOmobile solution for all the 200 heavyweight vehicles of the carrier’s fleet. Thanks to this investment, Transports Vallee will improve the management of their fleet, and will set up a complete dematerialization of the transport documents in order to improve the information flow. Improvement of exchanges traceability, of the communication with its customers, and the considerable time-saver within the treatment and invoicing will make it possible for Transports Vallee to improve the quality of its services and its competitiveness.

The agreement relates more precisely to the on-board equipment of ELOmobile made-up of the advanced computers of the ELOcom range, the on-board high-resolution digital scanners and the 7 inches touch screens. On the touch screen, the driver profits from a support to social legislation, a simple communication with the back office and from the follow-up of the orders of transport which is transmitted thanks to an interface with the TMS partner ITEM. The back-office uses the software suite ELOmobile Management 2011 integrating in particular a fast and precise cartography and a complete real-time social management. The transport documents are scanned by the driver in the cabin and the file is automatically chained with the order of transport and transmitted to the back office to facilitate the management of the documents efficiently.

“We are entirely satisfied with our choice which went on ELOmobile because of its experience with regard to social management, transmission and follow-up of the orders of transport.  The installation of an effective solution to digitalize the documents integrated in real-time into the TMS ITEM allows us to save time and improve traceability which is truly differentiating”, indicates Thierry Vallee, Chief Executive Officer of Transports Vallee.

Frederic Serre, Chief Executive Officer of Vehco France comments: “we are very pleased to have been able to deploy our scanning solution with Transports Vallee and the editor ITEM. This partnership consolidates our leadership in the deployment of proofed solutions optimizing information flows, and offering relevant tools to our customers, aiming at the improvement of their productivity and quality of services”.  
 

Ducournau Transports, Astrien, elected conveyor of the year 2011, renews its partnership with ELOmobile to equip their truck fleet with an innovating solution in mobility and traceability.

Brest, March 23rd the 2011: ELOmobile - Vehco Group, leader in solution for the management of fleet of professional vehciles and Transports Ducournau, member of the Astre Group, elected Conveyor of the Year 2011, confirm their historical partnership. ELOmobile and Ducournau Transports announce to set up an ambitious and innovating project of progressive renewal of the embedded equipments in the trucks. The vehicles equipped with the preceding generations of on-board computers ELOcom 2+ and ELOcom 2NG with fixed touch screens will be equipped out of compact computers ELOcom LISTO ensuring a Bluetooth wireless communication with the terminals, which is compatible with Motorola ES400 Windows CE and the ergonomic application ELOdis dedicated to the drivers. The drivers will thus profit on the same hardened and powerful terminal the following functionalities: communications, navigation, social management, management of the transport orders, ecodriving.

Jean-Pierre Ducournau, Chief Executive Officer Transports Ducournau indicates: “We are extremely satisfied with the partnership with ELOmobile whose solutions allow us an effective management of our fleet and to maintain our competitiveness and profitability”.

Thierry Ducournau, Chief Executive Officer Transports Ducournau adds: “The project of mobility and traceability currently in deployment with ELOmobile will enable us to reduce our investment costs in on-board computing while offering to our drivers a mobility on hardened terminals. We thus hope to integrate other functions like the ASTRE Palet System protocol for the management and the traceability of the pallets within the ASTRE group. Management of the transport orders, management of the pallets and communication will be joined together on only one mobile terminal, for a better productivity and user-friendliness in cabin”.

“We are proud to continue to work with Ducournau Transports whose operational results show a return on fast investment with our solutions. With the active listening of the customer requirements we showed our capacity to conceive a innovating solution which is unnique on the market thanks to the partnerships with Motorola and the Astre Group. It is once again the demonstration of our will to offer more choice, more flexibility and more opening to satisfy our customers” declares Frederic SERRE, ELOmobile Chief Executive Officer - Vehco Group.

About DUCOURNAU Transport: created in 1971 by Jean-Pierre Ducournau, the company, whose head office is established with Flassans-sur-Issole, is organized around two poles, DUCOURNAU TRANSPORT and DUCOURNAU LOGISTIC. Two poles to meet the most specialized needs as regards as logistics, storage, grouping and road transport of all types through a quality and safety approach, reinforced by obtaining in May 2004 the ISO 9001 v 2000 certification. Ducournau Transport counts approximately 344 employees, and has a park of 237 engines and 280 not engines. The 24th edition of the Conveyor of the Year crowned Jean-Pierre Ducournau on the 14 March 2011. Ducournau Transport is also a member of the ASTRE Group (www.astre.fr) which gathers more than 160 transport companies in France. More information: www.ducournau.com

About ELOmobile - Vehco Group: Since March 2011, ELOmobile and Vehco, the two independent leaders of France and Northern Europe, specialized in fleet management solutions are linked to create a European leader, and to bring the broadest offer of products and services of the market. ELOmobile is the French leader of the logistics and transport fleet management solutions. Created in 1999 within the Technopolis of Brest to decode the tachographs on real time and to allow a complete social management of the truck drivers, ELOmobile became the specialist in the integrated solutions, opened and flexible for the optimization of the fleets of professional vehicles. Since its creation in 2001 in Gothenburg in Sweden, Vehco has developed innovating solutions to improve the productivity of the drivers of trucks and buses: ecodriving solutions and simple ergonomics on mobile terminals such as PDA. The strategic combination of the two entities represents a manpower of approximately 100 people with 6 establishments in Europe (Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Norway and Sweden), and 800 customers divided in 11 European countries, that is to say more than 30,000 embedded computers which equip trucks, buses and commercial vehicles. The group offers a service of first order to the transport and industry domains: geolocation and optimization of fleet, social management, ecodriving, management of the orders of transport and rounds, follow-up of the temperatures, follow-up of the trailers, safety of the men, the vehicles and the goods. More information: www.elomobile.com

ELOmobile and La Vie Routiere announce their partnership to offer ecodriving solution and support to the sustainable driving especially dedicated to conveyors and industrialists.

Brest, March 23rd 2011: ELOmobile - Vehco Group, leader in professional fleet management solutions and La Vie Routiere which supports and accompanies the companies and the communities during the deployment of the prevention plan of the road risk or during the installation of the sustainable way of driving driving plan announce their partnership to offer solutions of eco-driving and accompaniment to the sustainable way of driving especially dedicated to the conveyors and to industrialists. This partnership is based on the use of the new module ELOdrive of ELOmobile, compatible with the last generations of the on-board computers ELOcom 2+ and ELOcom LISTO, offering a true assistance in real time to eco-driving. ELOdrive will be presented at the SITL 2011 tradeshow in Paris the 29-30-31 March (ELOmobile booth N06). The sustainable way of driving formations and accompaniments, especially dedicated to the road carriers and to industrialists, will be exempted by the professionals of La Vie Routiere.

Alain ROHEL, Chief Executive Officer La Vie Routiere comments on: “Giving trainings, if there is not a possibility of follow-up of the trained people, is frustrating for trainers who like their joband for who the result of their interventions matters a lot. With the ELOmobile tools we finally have the solution to accompany the drivers and the internal trainers by the companies for a real follow-up of consumption and trainings given. Thanks to the feedback of the data made by theELOmobile solutions, we can advise the drivers, the internal trainers but also the head managerson the relevance of the actions in progress or future. Within the framework of our partnership with ELOmobile, we put at the disposal of companies our network 24 professional trainers in France. Our message giver to the drivers is the following: a training for a better use of your vehicle technologies. The day of the formation, we record an average reduction of the fuel consumption which is 8 and 18%, depending onthe driver’s profile and its activity. After the training, the driver will save fuel up from – 3 to - 6%.

As former carrier, I do the following calculation:

- my fuel costs represents 25% of my cost price,

- if I have 3% of reduction, it is 0,75% of better with the assessment,

- and if it is 6% my result improves of 1,75%.

Then I say “yes” to the formation provided as long as the trainers are efficientand as long as I have good tools for control.The partnership with ELOmobile is an obvious partnership which results in the good tools make the good blue-collar workers. But even the most beautiful tool is not worth anything without accompaniment to use it fully! We will be present at the SITL on the stand of ELOmobile, come to meet us.”

"The experience feedbacks of eco-driving show a better efficiency if several actions are combined:

- a real time and simple transparent information, given to the driver on its performance and its axes of progress,

- operational exploitation and the management of the drivers,

- and finally a true accompaniment ofthe sustainable way of driving, which we can offer all of our customers thanks to our partnership with La Vie Routiere.

Basically, reductions of fuel consumption from 3% to 6% (2 l/100 km) on fleet already equipped of on-board computing are possible, and also reductions of 15% on the maintenance costs of the vehicles. And to finish, a fall of the sinistrality systematically follows the accompaniment in the duration of the drivers” declares Frederic SERRE, ELOmobile Chief Executive Officer - Vehco Group.

About La Vie Routiere: based in Orleans, association the La Vie Routiere, association law 1901 created in 2009 on the initiative of Alain Rohel (President) and 4 other trainers, all so passioned, gathers today 24 trainers in France. The 21 trainers are all old professional road drivers which after several years on the road were directed towards the formation and training, passed the diploma of BEPECASER and now transmit their individual and collective know-how while having a very pointed knowledge of the FIMO, FCO and of course of the RSE. The 3 other trainers are experts recognized in road risk and also BAFM (Trainers of BEPECASER) and we always establish the footbridge between eco-driving and obligations, of the entrepreneur, to deal with the road risks as a professional risk and to integrate it in the Single Document.

The PRIVATE LIMITED COMPANY La Vie Routiere carries out prevention plans of the road risk, the associated formations helped with the trainers of theassociation. The mission of La Vie Routiere is to contribute to the reduction of the road accidents and the reduction of fuel consumption thanks to a sustainable way of driving formation. More information:  www.lavieroutiere.com

About ELOmobile - Vehco Group: Since March 2011, ELOmobile and Vehco, the two independent leaders of France and Northern Europe, specialized in fleet management solutions are linked to create a European leader, and to bring the broadest offer of products and services of the market. ELOmobile is the French leader of the logistics and transport fleet management solutions. Created in 1999 within the Technopolis of Brest to decode the tachographs on real time and to allow a complete social management of the truck drivers, ELOmobile became the specialist in the integrated solutions, opened and flexible for the optimization of the fleets of professional vehicles. Since its creation in 2001 in Gothenburg in Sweden, Vehco has developed innovating solutions to improve the productivity of the drivers of trucks and buses: ecodriving solutions and simple ergonomics on mobile terminals such as PDA. The strategic combination of the two entities represents a manpower of approximately 100 people with 6 establishments in Europe (Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Norway and Sweden), and 800 customers divided in 11 European countries, that is to say more than 30,000 embedded computers which equip trucks, buses and commercial vehicles. The group offers a service of first order to the transport and industry domains: geolocation and optimization of fleet, social management, ecodriving, management of the orders of transport and rounds, follow-up of the temperatures, follow-up of the trailers, safety of the men, the vehicles and the goods. More information: www.elomobile.com

Toupargel selects ELOmobile to optimize its schedules of deliveries and to improve its quality of service.  ELOmobile equips the 114 agencies and 1000 vehicles Mercedes Sprinter of the group Toupargel with its solutions.

Brest, France, 24/03/2011 : ELOmobile (Vehco group), French leader in solutions to optimize the management of professional vehicles fleets and the Toupargel Group, leader in the sale and the home delivery service of deep-frozen products, announce to have signed an agreement on the deployment of the ELOmobile solution for the 114 Toupargel agencies and its 1000 vehicles Mercedes Sprinter. Thanks to this investment, the Toupargel Group wishes to optimize its schedules of delivery and to improve its quality of service for its customers. The agreement relates more precisely to the embedded equipment made up by the advanced computers of the ELOcom range, with CANBUS interface for the ecodriving, follow-up of the temperatures and 7 inches touch screens to offer an ergonomics to the driver and assistance to simple, convivial and evolutionary navigation. Moreover, the software suite ELOmobile management suite will allow the anticipation of the delays of delivery and the reliabilization of the delivery schedules.

“We chose ELOmobile for its tested solutions in the field of the embedded communication and its concrete experiment to meet our specific needs in term of ergonomics of the applications and optimization of the delivery schedules. The ecodriving solutions of ELOmobile will allow a reduction of the CO2 emissions by a responsible and sustainable driving from our deliverymen, which is in adequacy with the commitments of sustainable development of the Toupargel Group” indicates Roland Tchenio, Chief Executive Officer of the Toupargel Group.

Bernard Charvolin, Director of the Information Systems, adds “we were also allured by the proximity, the listening, the professionalism and the reactivity of the ELOmobile teams, qualities which fall under the spirit of the project. It is a strategic partnership for our Group”.

Frederic Serre, Chief Executive Officer of ELOmobile comments “we are proud to count the Toupargel Group among our new customers in the world of the light vehicles and B2C. That shows once again the capacity of ELOmobile to meet the requirements of specific markets in the world of goods transport and logistics. The signature of this partnership consolidates our position of leader in the deployment of tested solutions which optimize flows of informations. So we offer our customers the relevant tools, which aim at improving their productivity and the quality of their services”.

About the Toupargel Group : The Toupargel Group is specialized in the sale and the home delivery service of food (frozen, fresh, grocer). With 33% of market share, Toupargel has been created in 1947. It is the leader of the home delivery service of deep-frozen products. Today, every month, 1.2 million households trust the 3500 collaborators of the Group to be advised in the choice of their products and to be delivered at home in full safety. The Toupargel Group is side with the compartment C Nyse Euronext Paris. More information: www.toupargelgroupe.fr, www.toupargel.fr and www.placedumarche.fr

About ELOmobile - Vehco group: Since March 2011, ELOmobile and Vehco, the two leaders independent of France and Northern Europe, specialized in fleet management solutions are linked to create a European leader, and to bring the broadest offer of products and services of the market. ELOmobile is the French leader of the logistics and transport fleet management solutions. Created in 1999 within the Technopolis of Brest to decode the tachographs on real time and to allow a complete social management of the truck drivers, ELOmobile became the specialist in the integrated solutions, opened and flexible for the optimization of the fleets of professional vehicles. Vehco, since its creation in 2001 in Gothenburg in Sweden has developed innovating solutions to improve the productivity of the drivers of trucks and buses: ecodriving solutions and simple ergonomics on mobile terminals such as PDA. The strategic combination of the two entities represents a manpower of approximately 100 people with 6 establishments in Europe (Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Norway and Sweden), and 800 customers divided in 11 European countries, that is to say more than 30,000 embedded computers which equip trucks, buses and commercial vehicles. The group offers a service of first order to the transport and industry domains: geolocation and optimization of fleet, social management, ecodriving, management of the orders of transport and rounds, follow-up of the temperatures, follow-up of the trailers, safety of the men, the vehicles and the goods. More information: www.elomobile.com

Eurovia Breatgne selects ELOmobile for the security of its isolated workers. ELOmobile offers a 24/7 geo protection service in partnership with Securitas Alert Services

Brest, France, May 13th 2011: ELOmobile - Vehco Group, French leader in solutions to optimize the management of professional vehicles fleets and Eurovia Bretagne, manufacturer of transport infrastructures and urban development, announce to have signed an agreement on the deployment of the ELOmobile solution called ELOsafe, to protect the Eurovia isolated workers. The ELOsafe solution is an innovating solution co-developed between ELOmobile and Eurovia Bretagne, with the participation of the Brittany Region, allowing the localization of the isolated workers as well as a realtime 24/7 transmission of alarms to the telesurveillance Station of Securitas Alert Services. The ELOsafe innovation resides at the same time in the quality and the reliability of the system. Based on the ELOmobile on-board computers and communicating by radio frequencies with the ELOsafe devices, the ELOsafe solution profits from an autonomy (on battery) unequalled of more than 6 months. Finally this solution is evolutionary, especially towards the ELOmobile Eco-Driving solutions, using the BUS CAN data of the engines of the industrial and services vehicles, solutions created for a significant reduction of fuel consumptions.

“We chose ELOmobile for its know-how recognized in the secure transmission of data but especially for its capacity to develop a customtailored product answering exactly our specifications. ELOsafe is a turnkey solution, simple to use, but especially a true service, which enables us to profit from the experiment of Securitas Alert Services, and which in fine enables us to offer a better protection to some of our isolated workers” indicates Jerome Luhern, Agency Manager, Eurovia Bretagne.

Isabelle Moyon, National Geosurveillance Manager of Securitas Alert Services adds “we are very satisfied with the collaboration with ELOmobile whose IT and techniques team showed all their reactivity during the integration of the platforms of services. This complementarity is in the heart of the partnership and is paramount to build an integrated service of staff safety on all the territory”.

Frederic Serre, ELOmobile Chief Executive Officer comments “this partnership with Eurovia and Securitas Alert Services reaffirms our commitment to provide fleet management solutions which makes possible to gain in effectiveness, in safety and to lower the operational costs. With Securitas Alert Services, leader in the field of the safety of the goods and people, we are now able to offer a turn-key solution to our customers concerned to better protect their employees exposed to risks of accidents at work.”
 

About the EUROVIA Group: Manufacturer of transport infrastructures and urban development, producer and seller of materials, specialist in maintenance and the associated services, Eurovia, subsidiary of the VINCI group, realized in 2009, more than 8 billion euros turnover with his 41,500 collaborators. More information: www.eurovia.com

About ELOmobile - Vehco Group: Since March 2011, ELOmobile and Vehco, the two independent leaders of France and Northern Europe, specialized in fleet management solutions are linked to create a European leader, and to bring the broadest offer of products and services of the market. ELOmobile is the French leader of the logistics and transport fleet management solutions. Created in 1999 within the Technopolis of Brest to decode the tachographs on real time and to allow a complete social management of the truck drivers, ELOmobile became the specialist in the integrated solutions, opened and flexible for the optimization of the fleets of professional vehicles. Since its creation in 2001 in Gothenburg in Sweden, Vehco has developed innovating solutions to improve the productivity of the drivers of trucks and buses: ecodriving solutions and simple ergonomics on mobile terminals such as PDA. The strategic combination of the two entities represents a manpower of approximately 100 people with 6 establishments in Europe (Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Norway and Sweden), and 800 customers divided in 11 European countries, that is to say more than 30,000 embedded computers which equip trucks, buses and commercial vehicles. The group offers a service of first order to the transport and industry domains: geolocation and optimization of fleet, social management, ecodriving, management of the orders of transport and rounds, follow-up of the temperatures, follow-up of the trailers, safety of the men, the vehicles and the goods. More information: www.elomobile.com

About Securitas Alert Services: Securitas Alert Services is the specialist of the telesurveillance within the Securitas group. This division conceives and markets security solutions for: professionals, private individuals, vehicles, companies, and trade. In figures: 235 people, 35.6 million euros of turnover in 2010, an establishment in 10 countries and a network of 20 inter-connected stations of telesurveillance. Securitas Alert Services is based on the group Securitas (110 agencies in France, 1,000 vehicles and 20,000 collaborators) More information: www.alert-services.fr, info.alert-services@securitas.fr

Göteborg, Sweden/Madrid, Spain - 15th of July 2011 - Vehco continues its strong expansion in European key markets by acquiring its distributing company in Spain, Konexiona Tecnología y transporte, and setting up a Vehco subsidiary. All forces of Konexiona will join the Vehco Group as they will work and support the customers under the name of Vehco. The combination of Konexiona’s market expertise and Vehco’s high-end fleet management systems will create significant synergies on the Iberian Peninsula. “This acquisition represents a significant step for Vehco in our strategy to accelerate growth in Spain” said Magnus Orrebrant, chief executive officer of Vehco AB. Mr Orrebrant continues: “Konexiona has shown great success and under the umbrella of Vehco they will be able to grow even faster by offering solutions that match the Spanish market and fulfil the customer’s needs.”
 

About Vehco: Vehco is a European leader of fleet management solutions for the transport and logistics market. The company was set up 10 years ago by the Chalmers Technological University of Goteborg in Sweden to develop Eco-driving solutions. Since then, the company has pioneered enhanced data exchanges between Driver and back-office as well as mobility services via on-board-computers. Vehco has a leading presence in Europe, with more than 30 000 on-board-computers delivered.
More information: www.vehco.com 

Contact: Magnus Orrebrant, CEO of Vehco AB – magnus.orrebrant@vehco.com 

Arash Fard-Rahmani, General Manager of Vehco Communications SL – arash@vehco.com
 

About KonexionaTecnología y transporte: Konexiona was established in 2007 as a distributing company of fleet management solutions and has since then successfully implemented the solutions of Vehco to many Spanish transport companies. The company consists of experienced sales, project management and implementation personnel. Contact: Heike de la Horra, Sales Manager – heike@vehco.com

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