Trimble installs 'green fleet' management system

16 Nov 2009

GeoManager 9.1, Trimble's recently released 'green' fleet management system, pinpoints vehicle location, status, speed, and time information. Giving managers the ability to follow their fleet in street view, satellite view, or aerial close-up, they can also see exact CO2 emissions, real-time miles-per-gallon stats, vehicle fault codes and mileage information, thanks to a "Driver DNA Box".

According to Trimble's managing director MRM, Andrew Yeoman, their system will enable fleet managers to know their emissions, then start to see which vehicles are most effective on which journeys, which drivers are speeding or driving inefficiently or dangerously, and, through changing vehicles and retraining drivers, mitigate these fuel-wasting behaviors. "With a 15 percent difference in fuel use between running a well maintained vehicle and not, GeoManager can help a fleet save on fuel and therefore drastically reduce their carbon footprint."

Meanwhile British Gas announced the installation of the new GeoManager and the Driver DNA Box across its fleet, becoming the second enterprise in the U.K., after BT, to adopt the new technology. Other enterprises using GeoManager internationally are AT&T, Cox Cable, Qwest, SBC, Telstra, and Linfox.