Verizon Connect Digital Tachograph delivers stronger visibility of driver status [telecom]

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Verizon Connect Digital Tachograph delivers stronger visibility of driver status

By Mark Salisbury

With the launch of Verizon Connect's Digital Tachograph fleet managers can now download digital tachograph files and driver activity from anywhere, helping drive European tachograph regulation compliance, increase vehicle uptime and streamline day-to-day processes.

- - Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

Rise-of-the-machines department

Driverless semi-tractors aren't on our roads yet, so trucking companies are doing the next-worst thing: micro-micro managing every sub-optimal gear shift, every one-minute-over-allowance bowel movement, and every thirty-seconds-too-long pee break.

Of course, such "helicopter oversight" deprives drivers of the chance to talk to other truckers at rest stops and fuel depots, and thus to find out where roads are bad or under repair, where conditions are dangerous, or where weighing stations are open. Their bosses are assuming that crowd-sourced apps such as "Waze" are just as good, but drivers know that such sources are often innacurate, and that using them is just as dangerous as texting-while-driving.

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