Dive Brief:
- Quarterhill landed a contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to maintain, calibrate and support the commonwealth’s weigh-in-motion program, according to an Aug. 20 press release.
- The agreement is valued at $4.6 million over an initial three-year term, with options to extend an additional two years. Quarterhill will provide scheduled maintenance, emergency repair and system calibration across PennDOT’s network of planning and compliance WIM sites.
- The Toronto-based company will also support new site installations, upgrades and reporting integrations with PennDOT’s Field Operations Manager system, which feeds real-time commercial vehicle and traffic data collection into the state’s freight planning, weight compliance and roadway safety work.
Dive Insight:
Pennsylvania is the seventh state agency Quarterhill has signed in 2026, following awards in Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, California, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
That run has fed a growing backlog. The company grew revenue 5% during the first half of the year and ended the period with a $415 million backlog, CFO David Charron said during the company’s Q2 earnings call held Aug. 13. That pipeline could expand further with its pending acquisition of the tolling solutions business of Conduent, a deal that is expected to close in Q4, and a $35 million private placement transaction that gives it additional capital for deals.
“Very few companies combine our transportation expertise, installed infrastructure and AI capabilities. Customers are responding to that combination, and we see it in our recent wins,” CEO Chuck Myers said during the earnings call.
The PennDOT deal isn’t a new technology sale so much as a multiyear service commitment on infrastructure that already exists. If Pennsylvania exercises its extension options, the work could create steady revenue for a company building recurring business while it absorbs a major acquisition, executives noted during the earnings call.
