subject: Trailer Tracking Load Security Moves Ahead! [print this page] Trailer tracking technology has brought major innovation to cargo transportation, ensuring constant load safety surveillance en-route and off-road.
In addition, integration of load safety and security monitoring into realtime feedback reports connected to advanced types of vehicle tracking systems, means drivers have total control of steered trailer movement, and lorries shedding their load is now a rare occurrence.
Where fixing location by GPS vehicle tracking to enable rapid decision management, trailer tracking will deploy motion sensors and door monitoring, essential to today's load security standard.
The expansion of load capability in recent years now means that there is an estimated number of three trailers for every HGV. However, up until recently, telematics application the sending, receiving and storing information via telecommunication devices - was split between trailer tracking and vehicle based systems. The important management reporting for the trailer load that had only been available for the vehicle itself can now be supplied by the technological advances in commercial vehicle tracking.
In addition, chilled or frozen distribution fleet industries running vital time critical delivery, can also constantly monitor temperature by independent probes or directly connected recorders.
A Fleet Director can also supply data which relays live visibility of auxillary equipment monitoring, for planning and managing servicing and compliance. Precise number of hours and distances travelled are constantly updated from the trailer on preset timed intervals, usually around every 20 seconds. Customisable location-based reporting can be calibrated for daily, weekly or monthly, even when the trailer is not in operation.
Installing a vehicle tracking device is now established as a significant method to drive down fleet-expenditure. The implementation of a trailer tracking system to supply usage reporting can enable further fleet cost reductions relating directly to critical fuel efficiency and duty-of-care management integral to vehicle safety and security.
