CINCINNATI — While trucking industry groups generally welcomed a proposal by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to offer rewards to carriers that operate safely, the agency’s safety chief said the use of technologies alone wouldn’t necessarily lead to relief.

Trucking technology companies said they will continue to offer product integrations with outside vendors, even as mergers and acquisitions increasingly bring their partners under the same corporate ownership as their direct competitors.

Technology companies clearly need programmers and developers who can write computer code, but that is only the start.

Chase Plante, Derrick Henderson and Luis Silva began their careers at technology companies as college interns.

Tech talent is in high demand at the technology companies that serve the freight transportation industry, representatives from several companies said.

I.D. Systems Inc., provider of the VeriWise brand of asset-tracking technology, said it has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a pending patent on a cargo-sensing system for dry van trailers and intermodal containers.

DALLAS — Routing software provider Roadnet Technologies, a subsidiary of Omnitracs, has launched a new business intelligence tool designed to help fleets make better decisions about their operations.

Kelley Walkup and Joanne Hazelwood said they have purchased ACS Advertising, an agency specializing in driver recruitment and retention, from document-management provider Pegasus TransTech.

Trucking technology supplier CarrierWeb said sales volume in the United States grew by a record 40% in 2014.