Tech in Trucking: Eyeing the driver
GPS Insight has unveiled an option that enables its customers to automatically receive reports on drivers’ activities across multiple vehicles. These new capabilities allow administrative controls to determine which drivers were assigned to various vehicles historically for reporting purposes.
The company said the new functionality also makes it easier for fleets to determine accountability for unreported events such as parking tickets and toll violations.
“Since many customers share vehicles across their drivers, this new capability allows speeding, idling, mileage reports and alerts to be geared toward individual drivers, not the vehicle,” said Robert Donat, president & founder of GPS Insight. “A GPS Insight customer requested this capability in order to determine which driver was assigned to a vehicle in the past when a parking ticket was issued and ignored.”
According to GPS Insight, a driver may be assigned to a vehicle in five different ways:
- Manual assignment via web interface.
- Touching a driver “key fob” to a reader in the vehicle
- Sending driver ID via Garmin. Having the driver send an SMS text message.
- Via automated API (application programming interface).
The company said it plans to add other driver-centric capabilities to the program in the months ahead.
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