Digital Tachograph Interfaces
Downloading from Digital Tachographs, Easy with FleetWave
Fleet managers can now get a full and instant picture of each driver’s behaviour on the road, thanks to Chevin Fleet Solutions’ FleetWave® management system – greatly increasing their ability to fulfil their duty of care.
FleetWave® is capable of amalgamating data from both digital AND analogue tachographs, as Chevin managing director Ashley Sowerby explains: 'FleetWave® has been developed to combine all the information taken from every source of information, from external bureaux, disk scanners, card readers and manual input, and provide the fleet manager with a clear and concise breakdown of driver behaviour, showing what he or she wants to see, not just a list of speeds and break times.'
'Converting the massive array of figures and speeds into actual management information is the real challenge for FMS, particularly as most fleets will be running a combination of analogue and digital tachos for many years. '
'That is where a good FMS package can really help the fleet manager to identify the areas of concern for the fleet. Exception reporting is the key and with powerful tools such as automatic desktop reporting and emails to notify drivers, depot managers and anyone who needs to be told about important ‘contraventions’, the flow of useful information can be improved without getting fleet managers bogged down in the details. ’Fleet Management not number crunching’ should be the aim for modern fleet managers and we do everything we can to help them to achieve this.'
Gavin Clark, sales manager for Chevin added: 'Chevin decided, as a matter of policy, to design a system capable of working with ALL tacho types, thereby offering customers the opportunity to choose the supplier or method that suits them and their operation best. Then we can use the flexibility of our software and interface structures to gather the information that they need, providing the right reporting at the right time.'
