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GreenRoad™ Optimizes Fleet Driver Performance, Safety Practices and Fuel Consumption with New Features

REDWOOD CITY, CA (PRWEB) June 28, 2011

GreenRoad, the leader in fleet driver performance and safety management, today announced it has added new functionality to GreenRoad 360™, its award-winning fleet driver performance and safety management solution. The new functionality, incorporating extensive customer feedback, extends GreenRoad’s ability to deliver significant fuel efficiencies and reductions in crash incidents for fleets, including bus, coach and van fleets.

    The enhancements include:

    Posted Speed Performance delivers the ability to nearly eliminate posted speed violations by automatically capturing incidents where a vehicle is traveling above the posted speed limit, reflecting the impact of these incidents on the safety score and mapping the details. Seamlessly integrated with GreenRoad Central™, a web-based management dashboard, Posted Speed Performance can be customized to suit specific fleet policies and features color-coded graphical reporting for easy review and efficient management.
“Speeding is a major contributor to fleet crash incidents and excessive speed can dramatically increase fuel consumption. Additionally, because speeding on city and residential streets is often riskier than speeding on highways, managing posted speed performance is a key requirement for most fleets. Now, fleet drivers and management have a new level of safety protection and insight,” said Glenn Pereira, director of product marketing for GreenRoad.

“There is no ‘silver bullet’ when it comes to minimizing driver risk, but used in conjunction with a number of other measures, the GreenRoad system is helping us to develop a comprehensive picture of where we have risks within our fleet,” said Brent Mitchell, Director of Operational Support, Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions, which uses GreenRoad 360 across its fleet of 1400 vehicles. “GreenRoad not only allows us to identify risks, but also protects our drivers when they are out on the road, providing a range of data to help us analyze incidents.”

    Unique Idling Heat Maps extends GreenRoad’s idling performance management capability. Now, for the first time, fleet managers have an “at-a-glance” view of idling hot spots across specific geographies and routes. Idling policies can be customized to specific fleet vehicles and specific fleet operations or locations. The Idling Heat Maps are viewed on GreenRoad Central™, and are another example of GreenRoad’s commitment to giving fleet managers further insight into driver performance and safety management. GreenRoad customers typically achieve up to 10% savings in fuel consumption and have seen up to an additional 5% savings through proactive idling management.

“To see where the buses are idling is definitely a good management tool. With our hard winters and being school buses, in the morning we have to start up our fleets and idle for 20 minutes to get them up to running temperature. With GreenRoad, we are able to reduce the idling by about 25%. Drivers were also pulling up to school an hour early and idling, and we can reduce that. The drivers are more aware now, and the new idling heat maps will add another level of insight,” said Linda Kleingardner, operations and safety manager, Rolling V Transportation Services.

    Expanded data integration delivers a new set of application program interfaces (API’s) for integration with partner and customer systems including live data delivery such as GPS data, fleet administration automation interfaces, and behavioral insight interfaces. As customers continue to move fleet operations to cloud-based computing environments, GreenRoad is enabling customers to more easily share collected data with other IT systems, applications and programs, and specifically with fleet and risk management service providers. The data integration capability is delivered through standard Internet integration technologies and is simple and easy to implement.

“These new API’s enable a wide range of integration scenarios, including the use of GreenRoad data to power third party solutions and the automated delivery of GreenRoad generated data to customers’ business intelligence, and operational reporting systems,” continued Pereira.

Over 70,000 fleet drivers around the world are currently using the GreenRoad service and experiencing an average 50% reduction in crashes and instant savings to the bottom line by realizing up to 10% reduction in fuel consumption. To date the company has logged over 3 billion driver miles and continues to add over 100 million driver miles per month.

GreenRoad serves a blue-chip roster of leading customers including First Group, the U.K.’s largest bus and rail operator company, and Ryder, which provides leading-edge transportation, logistics and supply chain management solutions worldwide. Other customers include: Iron Mountain, Securitas Mobile, MasTec, DuPre Logistics, Stagecoach, CityLink and Quickway Carriers.

Pricing and Availability

These new features are available as of June 30, 2011; pricing available upon request. Please see http://www.greenroad.com for more information.

About GreenRoad

GreenRoad is the leader in fleet driver performance and safety management. GreenRoad offers the industry’s most sophisticated, customizable technology solutions and services to maximize driving safety and efficiency, generating immediate cost savings. GreenRoad 360™ provides real-time feedback integrated with comprehensive online visibility. GreenRoad engage drivers on an ongoing basis to deliver lasting improvement to driver and fleet performance. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices throughout the U.S. and U.K., and Israel. For more information, visit http://www.greenroad.com.

GreenRoad™, GreenRoad 360™, and GreenRoad Central™ are trademarks of GreenRoad, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Celebrate Thanksgiving at a California B&B with Lavish Dinners and Lodging Packages

Thanksgiving at the Martine Inn in Pacific Grove

Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) October 27, 2011

For travelers seeking to spend the long Thanksgiving weekend far from family and football, a bed and breakfast getaway in California may be the perfect escape. A number of California inns welcome travelers with crackling fireplaces, lavish Thanksgiving dinners and lodging packages. Several bed and breakfast Thanksgiving specials are listed below; more details and additional specials can be found online at the California Association of Bed & Breakfast Inns’ (CABBI) website at CABBI.com.

Savor a traditional Thanksgiving at the Inn at Locke House in Lodi wine country, as featured in Rachel Ray’s magazine. The inn’s Thanksgiving package includes a two-night stay, two breakfa¬sts, a private wine tasting, a Thanksgiving dinner featuring local products and wines and a CABBI cookbook to take home. The two-night package is $ 369 per couple for Main House, and $ 569 per couple for the Tower Suite. Reservations requested by November 5.

On the Mendocino coast, the Country Inn Bed and Breakfast’s Thanksgiving Package will have guests giving thanks. The package for two includes three nights at the inn, a home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner and two passes to Mendocino Botanical Gardens. The Thanksgiving menu includes a butter lettuce salad with bacon, cherries and Point Reyes blue cheese, mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, sweet potatoes with homemade marshmallows, Brussels sprouts in a Balsamic vinaigrette, grilled Turkey with stuffing and apple or pumpkin pie. The package price for non-fireplace rooms is $ 322; fireplace rooms are $ 442.

What began as an offering to the inns’ employees who worked on Thanksgiving Day has evolved into a special tradition for out-of-town guests. The Martine Inn in Pacific Grove offers a traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner–turkey, ham and duck–with all the trimmings, prepared from scratch by Ismael Vizcaya Diaz, the inn’s chef for the past 25 years. The tables are set with Gorham Silver from the 1890s, a fire roars in the fireplace and the waves crash outside. Each guest is individually hand-served and then offered additional helpings from the lavish buffet. The dinner price is $ 48 per person, plus gratuity and tax.

Stay at the Brannan Cottage Inn in Calistoga for Thanksgiving and enjoy a festive, five-course turkey dinner for only $ 40 per person. The Thanksgiving dinner menu includes hors d’oeuvres, Southwestern corn chowder, turkey, garlic mashed potatoes, dressing, cranberry sauce, mixed vegetables, and a choice of homemade desserts. Non-alcoholic beverages are provided; guests are encouraged to bring wine to share. A two-night minimum stay is required. Stay three nights and receive a 20% discount for the third night.

Through the month of November, guests of the Mount View Hotel & Spa in Calistoga can save up to 25% off their stay–Monday through Thursday–with the inn’s Thanks 4 Giving special. For each can of food guests bring, they receive 5% off the room rate, up to 25% off. Guests can also receive up to 25% off a la carte spa treatments any day of the week.

For more information on Thanksgiving specials and other bed and breakfast deals, visit http://www.cabbi.com/specials.

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India being agriculture oriented country, prices of most of the commodities, especially the gold and silver prices in Indian market fluctuate according to the outputs of agriculture industry. Investing in precious metals that guarantees multiples of their money has been the trend since ages in rural as well as urban India. Buying bullions, ornaments of gold and silver has been the easiest way for farmers from rural India to park and multiply their money.

Agriculture industry in India depends highly on monsoon. More than 60% of agricultural land in India is rain-fed and depends on the June-September period. If monsoon arrives on time, the cultivation process in India is bestowed with a good start that up to some extent, guarantees farmers a bountiful agricultural output. When agricultural output is at its best, farmers or agricultural landowners are benefited with handsome financial returns and demand for precious metals like gold, silver increases resulting in a raise in prices on silver and gold. If the rains are ample, transactions in precious metals industry in India increase resulting in augmentation in sales and purchases of precious metals, gold and silver prices. The same are slowed down in cases when there is lack of rain. Such circumstances compel farmers to sale their chunks of precious metals to overcome the losses.

In 2009, India faced a serious drought, the worst in three decades, due to which gold and silver market was hampered during that period. In 2011, monsoon stepped in 2 days earlier than expected that made farmers and agricultural industrialists happy. Also Indian Government is banking on it to overcome the losses caused due to the drought in 2009. But the rain has disappeared since 2 weeks. Many regions, villages in North India have not yet seen a single drop of rain and some areas in Central India also have gone almost dry.

Even though there is no rain since one week or two, the price on gold has not come down as gold is more sought-after precious metal than silver. Even if the rain were below normal, the gold demand will settle around 650 -700 tons this year.

To the contrary, though farmers in India prefer buying silver than gold to park their money, price on silver seems to be declining due to the disappearance of rain. Silver import figures also show a saddening scene of 33% of crash during first quarter of financial year 2011-2012. If the rain continues to be absent till August 2011, gold and silver market in India and the world will see tumbling prices on silver and gold.