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FUTURE TRUCK INSPECTIONS * USA
* DC - Wireless inspections: 24/7 exposure of truck, driver violations
Imagine tomorrow:
* Over-the-air law enforcement access to driver identity and operational hours information will be a reality.
* In-vehicle sensors will automatically communicate faults with roadside enforcement, flagging the vehicle for closer looks.
* Automation could yield driver and vehicle assessments 25 times more often than today’s inspections.
... Even if they aren’t this far-reaching, regulatory applications are the next logical step in the wireless equipping of trucks. CBs, Qualcomm and satellite radio are old hat. The last decade has seen widespread introduction of electronic logging devices, remote diagnostics and many GPS-based functions, linking the truck with maintenance personnel at owner-operators’ shops of choice and carriers’ back offices... That would be a lot of automated inspections, though there could be a slight upside to it, given the scoring realities of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program... This month, 20 or more Phase III test sites in FMCSA’s long-ongoing Wireless Roadside project are expected to be up and running in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina and Georgia. Six hundred or more trucks were expected to participate...
(Photo: Wireless Roadside Inspection research project's final phase under way) -- Washington, DC, USA - Overdriveonline, by Todd Dills - 20 March 2016
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