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" If you've tackled three or four major maintenance
points, then you can maybe add another
code and another and build your program this
way, " Simard suggested. " This way, you're not
inundated with data. "
She said for small fleets in particular, data
overload can sink a predictive program. " When
you have one maintenance person, you don't
want that person to start
wanting to work on every
single thing that they receive
from the telematics. "
Fleets can also better validate
the root cause of DTCs by integrating
with a transportation
management system and looping
in electronic driver vehicle
inspection reports (eDVIRs) to
validate issues. A picture taken
by a driver on a tablet, paired
with the data, helps narrow
down possible issues.
Isaac can work with fleets as
small as 20 assets in Canada
or 50 assets in the U.S.
" We still need the drivers'
eyes to report with the
telematics, " Simard said. " Not
all drivers have the same level
of mechanical savvy, but with
the pictures and with what you
can do with the ELD, the fleet
can look at the historical data
of this truck [combined with]
the pictures [and] that code. It's
all connected. "
Uptake's Rice stressed that
whatever solution a fleet
chooses should match their
capabilities, and the " Cadillac
premium version " isn't right
for everyone.
Uptake has worked with
fleets with 35 units using its
analytics
capabilities and
telematics data fleets are likely
already receiving.
" If you're using very basic
spreadsheets and whiteboards,
it's going to be very hard to
transition to a very robust,
completely integrated work
order system with closed-loop
functionality, " he said. " There
are baby steps in between. "
Rice posed the prediction
that someday, everybody will
be running these algorithms
ragged like digital thoroughbreds,
and data efficiency will
be as valuable as fuel efficiency.
Whether that's 10 years
from now or 50 all depends
on two things, he said.
First, as with all new technologies,
people expect fully
mature magic bullets out of
the box, and get frustrated
with the reality of product
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development. Users will have to temper their
expectations.
" You'll often see people trying to do too much
too soon, " Rice noted. " It really becomes a little bit
of a burden for them. "
And second, the momentum leaders in the
industry must work together to find clear use
cases and share the results.
" You need a few big names to say, 'This is really
doing it,' " Rice said. " And then what you see is
kind of a waterfall effect and this fast momentum,
which is what we're expecting in 2023. I think it's
the next wave of big trucking technology. "
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