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Truck Tracking System * USA - Online Monitors truckers' driving habits
The developer of the technology says it's saving companies as much as $4,000 per vehicle per year by reducing crashes, repair costs and fuel use
Redwood Shores,CAL,USA -Los Angeles Times, by Tiffany Hsu -June 18, 2010: ... A Bay Area company has been outfitting vehicles with devices that warn drivers when they've suddenly swerved or slammed on the brakes and then post the information online for managers to see... The company that developed the devices, GreenRoad Technologies Inc., said the system helps slice risky driving behavior in half and is eco-friendly. Executives said clients are saving as much as $4,000 per vehicle per year, and on average crashes have been reduced by 54%, crash repair costs slashed by 49% and fuel costs cut by up to 15%... The system includes a small black box mounted on the dashboard with an LED bulb, connected to a sensor that uses algorithms to pick up more than 120 subtle or severe changes in driving style... Each time the driver makes a precarious move, the light flashes yellow. If the egregious activity continues, the light changes and stays red. Stable drivers get a green light... The system also wirelessly beams a performance report to a website, where both the driver and the fleet manager can access it... Drivers are classified as green if they have 20 or fewer dangerous maneuvers every 10 hours, yellow if they have 21 to 50 and red if they have more than 50. Within weeks of getting data from GreenRoad, drivers tend to scale back the number of dangerous incidents by 40% to 70%, Steere said... (Photo by Glenn Koenig, Los Angeles Times / June 8, 2010: The GreenRoad system includes a black box on the dashboard attached to a sensor that picks up subtle or severe changes in driving style and alerts the driver through a light on the box. The system also sends a performance report to a website that the driver and managers can view)Labels: driver alerts, tracking trucks, truckers' alerts
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