PACCAR has partnered with Platform Science to implement its Virtual Vehicle platform onto Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks. Virtual Vehicle platform enables customers to access fleet management functionality, ELD capabilities, truck-specific navigation, and third-party applications directly from their vehicles.
Virtual Vehicle benefits
- Productivity: Factory-installed telematics hardware enables fleets to maximize uptime by avoiding installation delays and costs for complementary hardware.
- Flexibility: Virtual Vehicle allows fleets to create a software experience catered to individual business needs through a growing pipeline of developer-created innovations.
- Accessibility: Virtual Vehicle leverages edge, cloud and in-dash data to optimize networks, keeping data available 24/7/365, even when fleets are offline.
- Cost Effectiveness: Users of participating applications on Virtual Vehicle benefit from usage-based billing.
“Virtual Vehicle unlocks new ways for fleets to innovate with a platform that offers real-time insights and combines accessibility, flexibility and compatibility to ensure a driver-first experience,” said Jack Kennedy, co-founder and CEO, Platform Science, in a statement. “With Virtual Vehicle, truck buyers can eliminate barriers to innovation, production, and safety and customize in-cab experiences with technology solutions that best meet their needs.”
The Platform Science ecosystem will eventually allow for third-party apps to be downloaded and managed remotely or directly on the truck interface, eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming after-market hardware wiring and installation.
The new suite of services will launch in 2024.
Source: PACCAR
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Rod Sutton
Sutton served as the editorial lead of Construction Equipment from 2001 through 2025.