Company: Zonar, Seattle, WA
Nomination Submitted by: RH Stategic PR
Company Description: Founded in 2001, Zonar has pioneered smart fleet management solutions throughout the vocational, pupil, mass transit, and commercial trucking industries. Zonar’s mission is to enhance the safety, performance, and success of our customers by transforming the delivery of innovative insights for commercial fleets around the world.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Company of the Year - Transportation - Medium
 Nomination Title: Zonar
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Since its founding in 2001, Zonar has proven to be an innovative trailblazer across the transportation industry, providing smart mobility technology for fleet health, safety, and management throughout vocational, pupil, mass transit and commercial trucking industries. Zonar has consistently met its mission to increase the safety, performance, and success of its customers by enhancing compliance, efficiency, maintenance, and ridership visibility. This year, Zonar was recognized as a Top Company for Women to Work For in Transportation and for its exemplary customer service.
Zonar made strategic additions to its executive team with the hiring of Tim Ammon as the new VP & GM of passenger services and the appointment of Michael Gould as president and CEO. Under this leadership, Zonar advanced solutions for vehicle electrification, launched new tech to overcome driver shortage challenges and improved safety for student ridership.
Zonar’s industry-leading talent, Ron Cordova, director of safety and compliance at Zonar was appointed to the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) 2023 Law Enforcement Advisory Board (LEAB) and Fred Fakkema, vice president of safety and compliance at Zonar recognized as Chairman for the second year, strengthening the ties between the trucking industry and law enforcement to align resources and achieve new safety goals.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of 2022 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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In October 2022, Zonar introduced the latest iteration of ZTrak, a ruggedized asset tracker designed for long-range connectivity in remote, harsh environments. ZTrak intelligently tracks and records an asset’s location every five minutes, while the asset is on the move, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars recovered from stolen assets.
In February 2023, Zonar launched OnRoute, delivering clear, accurate, turn-by-turn directions for school bus fleets in real-time. The award-winning solution provides efficient routes, reliability, and punctuality for all drivers, including substitute and veteran drivers.
In March 2023, Zonar released a feature within its patented electronic verified inspection reporting product, EVIR® Mobile, called Inspection Builder. The tool provides flexibility for all fleet types, tailoring inspection requirements to specific needs while maintaining compliance for standard pre- and post-trip inspections.
In June 2023, Zonar expanded electric school bus support with the availability of state-of-charge (SoC) data for electric vehicle (EV) school buses. The updates help districts optimize resourcing and manage EV bus insights alongside internal combustion engine (ICE) bus data in the same fleet management platform.
Throughout the year, Zonar also broadened the availability of eTAT, to help drivers identify and report labor and sex trafficking in their everyday work. Drivers can view human trafficking red flags and examples, as well as scan QR codes with their personal mobile devices to access training videos and more.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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This year, Zonar has strengthened its commitment to fleet health and safety
Zonar’s expanded capabilities and key partnerships continue to support the advancement of technology and improve safety for student riders on school bus fleets. Not only is it imperative that school bus drivers have the real-time, detailed routing data and reporting they need to stay on track, but solutions like OnRoute and EV State-of-Charge also respond to the ever-increasing focus on student safety by keeping buses maintained to be able to transport students on time, safely.
Zonar’s latest product rollouts also offer real-time insights into precise vehicle location, current and historical state-of-charge data, stop-by-stop driving and charge analysis, trip duration and trip history, real-time road conditions and more information to inform routes, stops, and turn-by-turn directions for maximum vehicle health and performance.
Zonar’s patented EVIR fleet inspections are truly verifiable and streamline processes with no paper trail. Drivers cannot pencil whip EVIR inspections, nor can they rush through inspections— compliance teams can know with certainty that fleet inspections are being performed thoroughly and properly every time. EVIR has streamlined inspection processes by at least 50 percent compared to paper-based inspections.
Further, Zonar leverages opportunities to partner with industry groups, like ATA and WIT to improve fleet health and safety on a national scale. In partnership, Zonar representatives and industry groups are addressing key issues like truck parking capacity, distracted and impaired driving, and human trafficking to drive real change to improve the safety of all on the road.
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