Not Responsible For Broken Windshields — Intro
If you’re going to Boston in the next few days you can park on Lansdowne Street, but I wouldn’t recommend it, since the Blake Street Bombers will be in town. I’m sure the Red Sox will already have the signs up like my headline … not responsible for broken windshields, or damage to anything else of the customer’s. Use at your own risk.
Sobeys, Inc. has chosen to implement Safefreight Technology’s trailer temperature monitoring and GPS fleet management solution. Safefreight’s Smartfleet technology will be deployed on 90 trailers in the Sobeys fleet which delivers temperature sensitive food products to 189 retail store locations and 3 distribution centres in Western Canada. Sobeys now has the ability to track vehicles by location, audit inventory movement between distribution centres and store locations, and monitor up to three temperature zones within their refrigerated transport trailers. Rest of the article on why GPS/Tracking/monitoring for your own protection here.
Here’s the sort of things you should be looking at to protect yourself as a transportation user.
I’m emphasizing user to make a point that ultimately the protection of your assets, whether they be airliner avionics or fresh lobster is up to you … the person responsible for them, no matter if you are part of the company who owns the truck or just a client of the trucking company relying upon them to get your valuable cargo to destination.
- onboard security
- diagnostic sensors
- GPS tracking
- GIS mapping
- real time wireless communications
- Internet and client software applications
- reports
- 24/7 remote security monitoring and response
- integration service
These are a few of the important capabilities/features you should be considering when deciding on a supplier for your GPS tracking needs … this particular list comes from Safefreight and it’s quite comprehensive. I’m thinking I’ll write a few posts to explain a little and illustrate some good and bad I’ve seen on all of them, because using GPS to manage your operations is so much more than a little black box that receives GPS satellite signals. It’s also so much more than merely tracking a truck to mind it’s speed. It’s not the trucking company’s responsibility to safeguard your product and the responsibility can’t be laid at the feet of your insurance carrier either … if you ship product, you owe it to yourself to be responsible … it will pay dividends.