The Preview Edition of the 4RoadService iPhone App has been available for a while now in the App Store, but we are looking for even more feedback. If you’ve got an iPhone try it out, then tell us what would make you use it every time you break down.

We recently launched our mobile website at 4RS.mobi. It uses the latest HTML5 technology to bring the power of 4RoadService.com to your phone or tablet. Even better, phones where the technology is available it can use the phone’s GPS and search for service providers who are close to your actual location. You no longer have to guess what city you are in. Just choose what you need, how far away you want it, and tap the “My Location” button. If your phone doesn’t have a GPS, or doesn’t support accessing it from a web page, you can use 4RS.mobi by selecting your city & state just like on 4RoadService.com, but with a design optimized for use on a phone.

Our updated home page has been designed to make searching faster and easier. We noticed that many people were clicking the “Find Road Service” tab at the top of the site to go to the search page, so we brought a bigger, faster, search page to the homepage of the site, (of course, you can still use search page if you want). Since we put the made the update live last week the new search form has been a hit – it’s now the most clicked-on item on our home page.

As always, please let us know what we can do to make it even easier to get service on the road. We know what it’s like to be broken down in the winter and want to help.

We are launching the Scales service category with over 1200 CAT Scale locations, and will continue adding scales as we find them. If you have a scale that you want listed go to http://www.4roadservice.com/improve to get listed or to list a network of scales go to http://www.4roadservice.com/contact to get in touch with us.

We encourage you to take a look at the Roadcall Solution and see how it might help to improve your breakdown workflow.

You can now specify that you offer 24 hour service and display a list of payment options, and, (by popular request), a new Mobile option.

Now with the new Mobile option, providers that offer Mobile services will not be required to advertise a brick and mortar location. Mobile service providers are now able to offer mobile service in their area with listings showing the city and state they operate in.

If you’re a provider, log in and update your listing. We’ll be adding more features that you don’t want to miss out on, but these features rely on this information.

For those of you who are tech-saavy, there is also now an RSS feed of these announcements at www.4roadservice.com/blog/feed/.

For our premium providers, (Silver, Gold, and Sponsor), make sure that you have a company logo uploaded in order to be featured.

Second, we have a new payment provider. In addition to PayPal we now have a wide variety of options available. If you’re not comfortable entering your credit card number online you can now send it to us by phone or fax.

If you’re not a Premium Member yet now is a great time to log in and upgrade. If you’re not a member at all check out our Membership Packages including our Free Membership.

If you are a Free Member you now have the convenience of a list of recent searches so you can return to your search results with just a few clicks. If you are a Premium Member you have recent searches like the Free Members plus you can keep notes on providers and choose your own Preferred Providers. And, with searching within your Preferred Providers coming soon now is the time to start establishing your portfolio of Preferred Providers.

With these new features, and more on the way, now is the time to get started as a 4 Road Service Member. Find out more or sign up now!

Our visitors searching the webiste we’ve completely changed the search system. There’s now a search form at the top of every page where you choose what you want, where you want it, and give a search distance. When you’re telling us where you want us to look you can start to type a city name and our system will suggest cities with similar spellings to search near or you can type a ZIP or Postal code and we’ll search near that!

We’ve also improved printing. If you want to print a listing you no longer have to load a special print page. Just print out a listing and it’ll come out nicely formatted for you. Each printed listing even includes a handy fax form so it’s easy to send payment information to your chosen providers.

For providers our completely updated provider center makes managing your listings easy! You can now have more than one listing in your account. This is handy if you do business in more than one service category or if you have multiple locations.

We really want to hear what you think about the new design, so please let us know using our new contact page.