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Prophesy announces update of its cartographic database
 
Monday, January 21, 2002

Bloomfield, CT -- January 21, 2002 -- Prophesy Transportation Solutions Inc. announces a key update of its cartographic database, which supplies routing information for Prophesy Mileage & Routing software, which is used by more than 25,000 transportation companies nationwide.

The update incorporates changes to the North American road system, changes to speed limits, exit numbers, zip codes and other key changes that are critical to drivers. The dynamic new database is present in the new version of Prophesy Mileage and Routing. "This company was built on the solid foundation of our original mileage and routing software, says Prophesy President Edward J. Forman. "Today more than 25,000 trucking companies utilize this product every day, and we work diligently to ensure that these customers are always working with the most current information available."

Prophesy Mileage & Routing is the easy-to-use, commercial-grade mileage and routing system that users will have up and running in five minutes. The software automates tasks such as looking up mileage and quoting rates over the telephone, optimizing multiple stop trips, and routing between cities, intersections, truckstops, and zip codes. Prophesy Mileage & Routing helps trucking companies run cost effectively by reducing out-of-route miles. The program also provides mileage summaries by state to streamline fuel tax reporting. Prophesy offers a comprehensive system that can route to more than 1,000,000 points in North America, and can calculate both industry standard rating and practical miles. The program, which is available with street-level mapping, also integrates with Prophesy's dispatch and accounting, fuel tax reporting, log auditing and fuel purchase optimization applications.

Prophesy Transportation Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet and software solutions to the transportation and distribution industries. Since 1984, Prophesy has offered products and services for dispatch, accounting, logistics management, mileage and routing, fuel purchase optimization, fuel and road tax reporting, driver log auditing, driver management, and vehicle maintenance. For more information, please visit www.mile.com on the Internet, or contact Prophesy Transportation Solutions, Inc. at 1-800-776-6706.


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