Vehicle Telemetry

[George door to dawes]

at my office we have had telemetry for years. Managers can look at them so see where you are on your route, what speed you are travelling etc. One guy was taking off driving because he had several incidents of harsh acceleration within a short distance, this was after a member of the public complained about his driving. We are commonly told off for not turning the engine off enough when on delivery leading to unnecessary overuse of fuel. A manager will say "you only turned your engine off twice while on delivery yesterday, are you able to justify that? if you can no problem. However, and this is IMPORTANT, we are now using telemetry to our advantage. If a manager criticises you for claiming overtime, ask him to have a look at the telemetry and tell you where you could have gone quicker. The more they give us to do in the time the more we can use the telemetry to our advantage.

We have tracking on our vans so OT can easily be confirmed yet still they fight tooth and nail to avoid it. Wouldnt count on the new systems being used in our favour!