The recently-announced agreement between video leader SmartDrive and ELD provider Geotab is another step in what Steve Mitgang describes as “convergence.”

“The older systems have little new innovation,” Mitgang, the CEO of SmartDrive, said at one of two interviews held with FreightWaves over the state of the market, including one held at the Management Conference & Exhibition of the American Trucking Associations in Austin, Texas. The result, he said, is that some trucking companies are concerned with having “14 antennas on trucks, and that’s 14 points of failure and 14 different vendors.”