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TECHNONEWS * USA - UPS is testing a tool to keep track of truck data
United Parcel Service Inc. is testing a unused ruggedized mobile computer in its trucks that can wirelessly log departure and arrival times and provide managers through given conditions on vehicle speed and idle times
Atlanta,GA,USA -bionewsline.net -12 Oct 2008: -- ... Test versions of Motorola Inc.’s VC6096 Windows Mobile-based system, unveiled ultimate week, have been installed inside long-haul UPS trailer trucks and large trucks that move packages among sorting facilities... A spokeswoman wouldn’t say how many of the computers Atlanta-based UPS plans to purchase, but she noted that it be inclined be a “sizable” number by the time the company’s deployment is completed, which is expected in 2010... The spokeswoman said UPS has used the arrangement to measure and compile truck expedite, RPM, braking and idle-time data. More functions will be tested later... Kevin Burden, an analyst at ABI Research, said vehicle telemetrics be in actual possession of long been controversial because of fears that management will invade drivers’ privacy... Despite these concerns, Burden said companies such since J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. have found that they can use such systems to “stay on top of the workforce in the trucking business, where time is everything”...
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