With installing a GPS system in your trucks you will:
- Decrease the fuel cost of your trucks 20 to 40% which means that you found a way to cut cost in the segment that is your biggest expense.
- Increase your truck drivers’ productivity more than 20% with giving them short routes, on time traffic and weather information.
- Increase the safety of the freight
- Help you to prepare maintenance plan for every truck separately
6. Install Mobile Eye to Improve Safety
Another way to prevent truck accidents is to install a mobile eye in your trucks to monitor the performance of the drivers. The mobile eye is working in a way that identifies the lane markings and the vehicles that are at the rear and the front of the trucks.
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The mobile eye system will alarm the driver if is getting too close to a vehicle or too close to the lane markings. The system is not just an inside cab alarming system it will also send that information to the fleet manager which he/she will be able to select different parameters.
If the fleet manager is familiar with the truck drivers’ behavior he will be able to develop a training program for each driver separately and improve his driving performance and prevent truck accidents in future.
The mobile eye can also be used to reward the truck drivers that have impeccable driving behavior and that might be as motivation for other truck drivers to improve their driving performance.
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The mobile eye is different from the GPS system because it provides visual records of the inside and outside of the truck cabin and in a case of an accident the fleet managers can review the time before and after the accidents. Another good thing is that will provide information what the truck driver was doing before the accidents.
Those data can be used as a visual example for the other truck drivers and training what not to do and how to prevent truck accidents in some similar situation.
