Tag: telematics data

Dealers

Kirby-Smith Machinery names McNatt director of construction technology

Rebecca McNatt, the new director of construction technology, will be responsible for the growth and development of Komatsu Smart Construction and much more.

June 20, 2019

Telematics

Volvo CE says ActiveCare Direct service takes “the noise out of telematics data”

Almost all of the customers who had a year of the service for free have re-enrolled in the company’s ActiveCare Direct fee-based subscription service. More here.

June 1, 2018

Construction Equipment

Skyjack debuts Elevate rental fleet telematics designed for off-highway fleets

Skyjack says it is “disrupting the telematics industry” with its Elevate telematics package designed specifically for off-highway rental fleets. The fully customizable service was announced at The Rental Show this week. The idea behind Elevate was to go beyond long established on-highway trucking industry telematics programs to design something specific to off-highway fleets, says David […]

February 23, 2018

Technology

Telematics 101: How to use equipment data to track fuel, plan routes and diagnose problems

Editor’s Note: This is the third part in our ongoing Telematics 101 series of articles. To view the other articles in this series click here. Telematics data is a lot like a map to buried treasure. The information does you no good unless you act on it.  The gold is there. But, if you don’t pick […]

May 27, 2016

Technology

Two experienced fleet managers tell how telematics data helps make their companies more competitive, explain how to adopt the technology

There will come a time in every construction company’s life, when a trigger event will make the deployment of telematics not only advisable, but even necessary. And that time is fast approaching for almost every company, said Guy Gordon, CEM, director of asset management at Aegion, and Dan Samford, vice president equipment assets, Herzog Contracting. […]

November 10, 2014