Being able to accurately identify commercial vehicles, communicate with their drivers and assure secure financial transactions underpins successful ITS offerings for commercial vehicle operations (CVO) and their government regulators.

Because the TDMA V6 CVO onboard unit (OBU) and the FUSION® CVO on-board device excel in doing precisely this, they are the dominant OBU technology used for truck screening across the nation, compatible with: PrePass, BESTPASS, NORPASS, Oregon’s Greenlight and North Carolina’s NCPass.

PrePass and BESTPASS have both partnered with the New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA) in a toll discount program that enables truckers to use the FUSION CVO OBU for both weigh station screening at up to 350 roadside locations and electronic payment of E-ZPass® tolls at more than 400 locations. PrePass PLUS has more than 100,000 toll participants and is the nation’s largest single toll payer with a monthly bill in excess of $18 million. BESTPASS has 30,000 truck screening and toll participants and is growing.

"The MARK IV FUSION CVO OBU is a great step forward for motor carrier safety and efficiency. It delivers the dependability we need to assure our state regulatory partners our system is accurate and robust,” said Dick Landis, president and CEO of HELP Inc., the public-private partnership that offers PrePass truck screening in 29 states.

PrePass also uses the MARK IV CVO OBUs in its Gates service offering, which automates terminal and yard access and egress and in Florida’s AgPass program.

"For more than five years I've been asking for this interoperability" reported Dan Einwechter, president and CEO of Challenger Motor Freight in Cambridge, ON and the first carrier to volunteer for the project. "I'm pleased we now have the technology and institutional arrangements in place to deliver an important, value-added service to truckers. I'd now like to see what incremental functionality we can get out of that same box - border crossing efficiency or compatibility with other toll authorities would be where I'd urge the partners to look. These are services for which carriers are willing to pay."

MARK IV technology pioneered weigh station truck screening when it delivered precursor AVI technology for the HELP/Crescent Project federal demonstration project in the mid-1980s. The revolutionary Fusion CVO technology developed by MARK IV has brought together the major toll and weigh station bypass programs in America.