MAN EcoStyle driver & vehicle management system was the key factor for Peacocks in a decision to purchase new MAN tractor units – Motor Transport Reports
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by Alex in Microlise - In the News, News, Partners
Peacocks, the South Wales-based High Street retail fashion chain, says MAN’s EcoStyle driver and vehicle management system was the key factor in its decision to add nine of the German manufacturers tractor units to its 65-strong fleet.
The web-based system provides analysis of driving styles and productivity, allowing driver training to be tailored to individual needs. The new batch of TGX 26.440 BLS 6×2’s – Peacock’s first MAN’s since 2005 – will be based at the firm’s central transport facility at Merthyr Tydfil, from where the 500 UK and 90 overseas stores are supplied. Movements include 3,500 containers per annum out of Southampton.
Motor Transport 26.06.2010
Paul Jurevicius, Microlise’s Channel Account Manager commented today: ” This is another example of how the MAN/Microlise partnership can help fleet operators by deploying the MAN Trucknology Service – which includes the web-based Microlise telematics solution, comprising of EcoStyle driver performance reporting – they are helped to reduce operating costs and maximise fuel savings all in one neat package as part of their truck purchase.”
Ford Motor Company Take home the Award for Best Telematics Service & Application for Commercial Vehicles for Crew Chief
Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Alex in News, Partners, Product
This award was looking to reward the best Telematics Service Provider for commercial vehicles management at this years Telematics Update Event. The Crew Chief telematics application, devloped in partnership with Microlise, was submitted for the award, and was shortlisted back in May. The winners were announced at the Henry Ford Rouge Factory in Dearborn, Detroit on the 7th of June. In winning in the award, the Crew Chief Application demonstrated a high standard of customer service, rapid application development and faultless integration and deployment. Below, Nizam Uddin, the Microlise Project Manager on the Ford Crew Chief Project (Left), Bill Frykman, Business Development Manager for Ford Work Solutions with the award (Center), with Steve Walsh, head of Microlise’s USA operation(Right).
Microlise’s Driver Performance system monitors France’s top drivers at the Charade Circuit event
Posted on 10. Jun, 2010 by Alex in Customers, News, Partners, Product
MAN Camions & Bus SAS in France are currently hosting 350 of their top customers at the Charade Circuit in Clemont-Ferrand, France. They are using the Microlise Driver Performance Monitoring Telematics System to evaluate the driving styles of France’s top truck drivers in 5 MAN TGX demonstration vehicles. Microlise’s senior French Business Analyst is at Charade assisting the event and demonstrating the systems capabilities and features, while the Business Analysts in the UK are monitoring the progress of the drivers in realtime. See below for our lastest map view of the event.
Microlise Introduce their New Driver Feedback Module to now make it even easier for you to monitor and improve driving behaviour and performance
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Alex in News, Product
Microlise’s Transport Management & Telematics Solutions are used by customers around the world to improve fleet productivity & utilisation, enhance customer service, reduce management overhead and improve safe and economical driving.
At the heart of this solution portfolio, is the Microlise Tracking Unit (the MTU3) which Microlise both design and manufacture. This telematics device monitors the location of vehicles and how it is being driven by connecting into the vehicle’s CANBus.
In the specific case of safe & economical driving, Microlise and their reseller & Automotive partners have helped hundreds of customers to improve driver behaviour with our simple, yet powerful, Safe & Economical Driving Style reports. These league tables, using the easy to understand A-G economy rating system, readily allow customers to improve their fuel economy by over 10%.
These reports are used most successfully when they are embedded in an operation’s daily and weekly procedures such that good driving can be recognised and, in the case of poor driving, debriefing and driver training can occur.
Microlise are introducing the Driver Feedback Module to compliment this reporting suite and to ensure driving feedback is delivered in real-time. In this manner, drivers who are driving to the required standard get instant feedback, whilst poor driving is automatically communicated to the driver, giving them the opportunity to change their behaviour, knowing that any further infringements will be recorded.
The Driver Feedback Module’s purpose is to sustain & develop good driving and to reduce debrief and training overhead. This low cost unit can be fitted to any MTU3 using CANBus / FMS data.
The small and light weight DFM unit can be adhered to the dashboard and consists of Red, Amber and Green lights plus Audio prompts. When the driver is driving the vehicle inside all of the allotted targets, relating to speed, harsh braking, greenband, idling, over-revving and so forth, then the green light will be on.
Should any infringement begin to occur, then the Amber light will come and an audible WARNING prompt, along with the particular, infringement will sound. For example, “WARNING – EXCESSIVE IDLING”
The unit can be configured with either a male of female voice. Likewise, different volume levels can be set, controlled from the Microlise MTU3 configuration.
Should the driver not modify their behaviour, then the red light will illuminate and an audible message will play, for example “RECORDING – EXCESSIVE IDLING”.
Matt Hague, Product Strategy Director at Microlise says; “We are delighted with the Driver Feedback Module. We think it really enhances what is already an innovative telematics solution and will allow customers to leverage more benefits, quicker. The DFM will be on general availability in June, but have already taken orders. Some customers are being quite smart in how they intent to deploy the Driver Feedback Module in that they won’t fit them across a whole fleet necessarily but will use the DFM as a training aid for those drivers who are identified as needing driver training”.
