Mac-Gray – a Leading Commercial Laundry Services Provider – Relies on Sprint and
Actsoft to Track Rolling Stock
Mac-Gray Corporation uses GPS service to reduce vehicular CO2 emissions, cut expenses
and enhance payroll management
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – July 14, 2009 – Sprint (NYSE:S) and Mac-Gray Corporation
(NYSE:TUC) today announced completion of the implementation to equip 600+ Mac-Gray
vehicles with devices that combine the Sprint data network mobility solution with
the additional productivity-enhancements of real-time tracking and time reporting
provided by Sprint partner Actsoft.
Using Motorola i365s handsets and Actsoft Comet Tracker, Mac-Gray gains the ability
to track and manage vehicles and mobile worker time reporting as it serves over
85,000 customer locations. The capability has been implemented at all 28 of Mac-Gray’s
branches nationwide. Mac-Gray serves the laundry needs of academic institutions,
multi-family housing properties, laundromats, on-premises laundries, military and
government facilities and hotels and motels.
In addition to the 600 new handsets that use Actsoft Comet Tracker, Mac-Gray has
renewed an existing agreement with Sprint for another 780 handsets already operating
on Sprint’s Nextel National Network.
“After a trial in one of our key branches, we decided this GPS and time management
solution could help us achieve greater productivity in all our branches,” said Mike
Lento, vice president of corporate operations, Mac-Gray. “The ability to track our
vehicles in real time and monitor their location 24/7 saves time, reduces fuel consumption
and eliminates unauthorized vehicle use. Mac-Gray also uses the tracking capability
to monitor use of its vehicles after drivers take them home, which further reduces
maintenance and fuel consumption. The ability of our drivers to clock in and out
remotely reduces paperwork and improves time reporting accuracy”
John Dupree, vice president – Enterprise & Federal, Sprint said, “Mac-Gray has shown
how an enterprise can build on the value of instant communications with an effective
and productivity-enhancing GPS capability. Sprint is pleased to team with Actsoft
to help Mac-Gray arrive at an innovative solution.”
Sprint serves Mac-Gray through its newly formed Business Markets Group (BMG). Composed
of more than 4,000 sales, support, marketing and operations personnel, Sprint’s
BMG is dedicated solely to enterprise, general business and public sector customers.
BMG offers a unique combination of 3G and 4G technologies and applications, including
integrated wireless-wireline services. The Sprint BMG unit delivers wireless, wireline
and converged solutions for companies, drawing on the nation’s most dependable 3G
mobile broadband network,*,the fastest national push-to-talk network (based on call
setup), and a comprehensive solutions portfolio of devices and applications.
About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications
services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government
users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying
innovative technologies, including two wireless networks serving more than 49 million
customers at the end of the first quarter of 2009; industry-leading mobile data
services; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global
Tier 1 Internet backbone. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.
About Mac-Gray Corporation
Founded in 1927, Mac-Gray derives its revenue principally through the contracting
of debit-card- and coin-operated laundry facilities in multi-unit housing facilities
such as apartment buildings, college and university residence halls, condominiums
and public housing complexes. Mac-Gray manages approximately 80,000 laundry rooms
located in 43 states and the District of Columbia.
Mac-Gray also sells, services and leases commercial laundry equipment to commercial
laundromats and institutions through its product sales division. This division also
includes Mac-Gray's MicroFridge(R) business, where Mac-Gray sells its proprietary
MicroFridge(R) line of products, which are combination refrigerators/freezers/microwave
ovens utilizing innovative Safe Plug circuitry. MicroFridge(R) and Maytag products
bear the ENERGY STAR(R) designation. To learn more about Mac-Gray, visit the Company's
website at www.macgray.com.
LaundryView(R), MicroFridge(R) and Intelligent Laundry(R) Systems are registered
trademarks of Mac-Gray Corporation. All other product names, service marks and trademarks
mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
* “Dependable” based on independent, third-party drive tests for 3G data connection
success, session reliability and signal strength for the top 50 most populous markets
from January 2008 to February 2009.
Media Contact:
Sprint
Mary Kunkel
703-433-3060
Mary.Kunkel@sprint.com
Mac-Gray
Sheffield Halsey
781-487-7600
shalsey@macgray.com
