November/December 2018
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W
ith the dangers of distracted driving for both
commercial and private vehicles under the spotlight in
Europe and the US, commercial fl eet managers in particular
need to understand the regulatory and legal implications
and implement preventative measures to ensure driver
safety and avoid business disruption.
In the UK, new rules introduced in 2017 mean truck drivers are
now subject to hefty fi nes, penalty points and legal action in cases
of distracted driving.
For truck drivers, activities such as talking to passengers, using a
handheld mobile phone, using a GPS device, completing
paperwork, watching videos and even eating and drinking can be
highly distracting and dangerous: taking their eyes off or shifting
attention away from the road for mere seconds can signifi cantly
increase the risk of a crash.
Truck drivers spend a lot of time on the road and the work is
often repetitive, tiring and time-consuming. With such large, heavy
and valuable vehicles often carrying valuable cargoes involved, it is
the responsibility of commercial fl eet managers to implement
preventative measures to avoid incidents that can cause heavy
penalties for distracted driving and in the very worst cases,
fatalities that result in legal action and disqualifi cation.
Increasingly, combining technology and good communication
practices is regarded as the ideal solution for limiting commercial
vehicle driver distractions by ensuring a driver’s hands remain on
the wheel and their attention fully on the road ahead.
Technology group Orbcomm has published a free e-book to help
fl eet managers identify all potential driver distractions and work to
prevent them using a combination of technology and
communication processes.
The e-book is free to download from the company’s website (see
below).
Orbcomm has also released a new cloud-based analytics service
that leverages its telematics expertise and portfolio of IoT solutions
to provide greater insights into the operations of its customers’
enterprises.
With the new analytics offering, the fi rm’s customers can extract
valuable, real-time information from their asset-based data to
determine patterns and predict future outcomes and trends,
signifi cantly improving operational effi ciency and driving better
business results.
The analytics service is focused on transport & logistics, supply
chain and heavy equipment markets, where the company has
extensive industry expertise and domain knowledge. While the
telematics solutions provide real-time operational and transaction
data for customers in these industries as well as a good proxy for
their assets’ behaviour, the new analytics cloud service will provide
more in-depth descriptive, predictive and prescriptive results to
optimise operations.
Orbcomm has identifi ed a number of opportunities for its
analytics service that provide industry benchmark comparisons and
statistical applications applied to machine, logistical and
conditional behaviours. Customer use case examples include
refrigerated transport operational performance, operational cycle
and dwell time management, condition delivery management,
fl eet driver performance, predictive machine breakdown and
shutdown, preventative maintenance planning, and business
optimisation.
“By responding to customer demand for more sophisticated
business intelligence applications, Orbcomm has launched a
comprehensive analytics platform that can transform asset data
into usable, ROI-driven information to help customers improve
performance and effi ciency and make better business decisions,”
CEO Marc Eisenberg.
www.orbcomm.com
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Asset Management
Combining technology
and good communication
practices is regarded as the
ideal solution for limiting
commercial vehicle driver
distractions
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