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Press Release: August 10, 2007

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mary Kelly, Media Relations
Phone: 609-252-8160
E-mail:kelly@alk.com
Fax: 609-252-8166

ALK Technologies Responds to Minnesota Bridge Collapse
I-35W Road Segment Updated in PC*MILER and ALK|FleetSuite

Princeton, New Jersey – August 10, 2007 – ALK Technologies has universally addressed the recent Minnesota I-35W Bridge collapse with the necessary routing changes within its PC*MILER and ALK|FleetSuite product lines. Users of ALK’s business solutions have been contacted and provided with network update instructions to ALK’s industry-leading truck-specific map database. For current users, the map data update is available for download on ALK’s online Support Center free of charge.

An alternative to downloading this critical routing patch is to use the product’s Avoid/Favor setting. This standard customized routing feature allows users to safely reroute vehicles around closed highways, bridges, tunnels, roads and streets. For more info, visit www.alk.com/pcmiler/avoidfavor.

"PC*MILER has featured avoid/favor and custom routing capabilities for over 10 years," said Ed Siciliano, vice president, sales and marketing for ALK Technologies. "Our map data also includes customer preferred truck routes in the affected area, so we are uniquely qualified to assist in the re-routing project, which is now underway in Minnesota. Routing and mapping aside, our hearts go out to the families involved in this terrible disaster."

About ALK Technologies
ALK Technologies, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, was founded in 1979 by Princeton University professor Dr. Alain Kornhauser, who still provides strategic leadership. ALK recognized the power of information technology early and has consistently developed inventive, practical transportation applications that provide customers a competitive edge, increased efficiency and bottom line benefits. ALK helps companies and individuals understand and harness the relentlessly evolving technologies reshaping the competitive transportation landscape.

More than 21,000 companies use ALK’s PC*MILER Solutions including ninety of the “Top 100” motor carriers, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). ALK provides consulting, customized information systems and packaged software solutions.

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