Posted on 07/18/2021 4:26:42 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
I get it. You are just compiling the data. I was just ribbing you a bit. :)
That micromanagement really does suck though. They will spend more on that tracking and micromanagement than the driver’s wages and any losses a driver could cause. It is OCD insanity and they step over a dollar to pick up a dime. It is actually wasteful business policy that costs them more than they would save.
Ok, thanks. So that’s a powerful real-time travel tool. I don’t need the real-time functionality but I do need the data behind it.
They’ve got a reputation as a great company to work for … with an outstanding safety record.
A couple of years ago,I looked at RFO Basic! for Android on Google Play store. I know it had access to every bit of GPS info. I assume any language you want to use on the phone can access all the data.
Go to page 184 of the manual for an idea of what you can access: http://laughton.com/basic/programs/apks/De_Re_BASIC!-v0190.pdf
We used to have similar in our trucks but old school. Qualcomm with GPS on both tractors and trailers. And of course the hardwired text tablet in the truck for the dispatchers to bug the drivers all the time. They would not even let them get their legal sleep. We used to see them hanging out the passenger window all the time when a driver was trying to sleep.
It was kind of cool in one aspect though, I could monitor the engine computers while a tractor was going down the road, and monitor the temps on the reefer trailers. But we had almost all the same capabilities for parameters which the terminal computer application deciphered. We had a running record of speed, miles driven, idle times, shut offs, engine operating parameters, etc.
But man... That is out of hand OCD you are dealing with from your company driver...
I guess if they are all like that now you don’t have a choice.
If one disables the app, it is flagged you will be fired unless backed up by a call to Tech Support that documents deleting/reinstalling the app as part of a trouble shoot.
Problems is the Indian contractors think Caution signs are law. A exit speed exit caution is read by the Indians as a speed limit when one did not take that exit. The speed limit sign on a parallel service road that was incorrectly placed on the left side of that road will be read incorectly as your speed limit due to being on your right .
The app gives grade for driving real time, daily, weekly, monthly...ect.
The Indian contractors do not know what a yellow sign means but a orange sign just fine. I think all Indians are color blind.
The GPS data is stored as a file on the phone. It is trivial to write a small app that gets it and sends it to you. That, and Apple and others won’t let you connect to other apps t get data without permissions anyway so you might was well write a small app.
I fully understand location logistics, especially to time deliveries and pick ups. But to micromanage how they drive their trucks and if they pick their nose or scratch their rear ends or not (Because now they are even putting cameras in trucks) is insane OCD overkill. The whole industry needs to draw a line with this crap.
Yes, we had to find a few missing trucks and trailers ourselves using GPS. We also had them disappear because drivers got tired of being micromanaged to the very second and covered the satellite antenna with foil.
Companies are having a hell of a time finding GOOD drivers, let alone drivers period. Then they treat them as if they are robots and not even human and wonder why... Amazon fires drivers for even stopping to take dump.
This is the new trending model of “logistics”...
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