How Commercial Truck Telematics Increase Uptime

Freightliner partners with Detroit^® to provide industry leading engines, transmissions, axles, telematics, and safety solutions and achieve record-breaking uptime for our drivers. More specifically, the commercial truck telematics solution keeps your trucks, and therefore your business, moving forward. This solution connects your trucks with experts that have the industry know-now to keep your trucks on the road. Detroit Connect’s commercial truck telematics solution includes Virtual Technician, Visibility Fleet Software, and an On-Board Tablet. These Detroit Connect^® tools work together to improve uptime by gathering, transmitting, and evaluating data straight from your trucks.

• Virtual Technician. Virtual Technician has created an industry standard by being the most effective commercial truck telematics solution available. By providing necessary truck performance data, downtime is reduced. Know the issue immediately and the best course of action. If you check engine light is to appear, Virtual Technician tells you what is wrong and if you can keep driving by generating a snapshot of the engine’s status before, during and after a fault code event. With the repair insights provided by this tool, trucks are back on the road faster.

• Visibility Fleet Software. Visibility Fleet Software utilizes wireless and GPS satellite technology to provide real-time, secure information about your fleet to a website portal, allowing fleet managers to efficiently monitor one or all of your trucks. With this commercial truck telematics software you can keep tabs on your truck’s location, speed, mileage, trip costs, activity, routes, overlapping paths, stop times, idle times, and fuel paths. The reports and notifications you receive will enable you to make smart business decision when it comes to your trucks, routes, and more.

• On-Board Tablet. The On-Board Tablet is the perfect for easy communication and record keeping. This integrated tablet tracks hours of service, and provides navigation support, a driver to fleet manager messaging system, and inspection support. By tracking service hours, you can eliminate downtime and fines, and the navigation functionality allows drivers to quickly find the most efficient route.

To learn more about how commercial truck telematics can transform your business, contact us.