Truck driver-facing cameras: Point/Counterpoint
No matter how you feel about the idea of driver-facing cameras, the best way to implement them is by prefacing their installation with clear communication to your drivers.
The video telematics tipping point and how fleets can put it to work
Fleet Equipment had a chance to meet with Adam McCarty, Lytx’s vice president of marketing and growth Initiatives, to talk about how fleets can turn video telematics insight into actionable efficiency and productivity improvements.
Lytx, Geotab integrate video, fleet management telematics
Lytx, provider of machine vision- and artificial intelligence-powered video telematics solutions for fleets, announced a new integration with Geotab. The integration, introduced at Geotab Connect 2020, creates a seamless experience—within a single interface—between Lytx’s unrivaled video-based telematics platform and Geotab’s world-leading fleet management capabilities. The Lytx and Geotab integration enables, through a single sign-on, seamless
Fleet profile: The Erb Group of Companies
At the Erb Group of Companies, customers can rely on
receiving on-time delivery of temperature-controlled freight.
Lytx Driver Safety Program helps prevent drowsy driving, company says
Lytx has shared its data showing drowsy driving and falling asleep behind the wheel are dramatically declining among commercial drivers who use the Lytx Driver Safety Program.
Jetco Delivery Upgrades Fleet to Lytx Driver Safety Program
Jetco Delivery has installed the Lytx Driver Safety Program across its fleet, Lytx announced.
The growing benefits of video telematics
The true benefit of telematics is to see things you couldn’t see before. Whether that’s exact numbers and data or blind spots on the road, what telematics provides is insight and visibility into what’s going on with your fleet. And what could provide more visibility than cameras? Today, many fleets are making use of video
Pre-wire options for video telematics systems
Mack Trucks recently announced that it would offer a pre-wire option for the Lytx DriveCam video telematics system on its Granite, LR and TerraPro trucks. According to Lytx, having a pre-wire option decreases downtime for these trucks and improves TCO, while also ensuring high-quality installations. Typically, the company says, installation takes 1-2 hours per truck
Nationwide and Lytx announce partnership
Nationwide is partnering with Lytx to offer its DriveCam safety program for fleet managers of long-haul trucking members. The Lytx DriveCam is a windshield-mounted event recorder that collects driving data inside and outside the vehicle and works to distinguish normal driving from driving that could be risky, such as hard braking, sudden acceleration, swerving, cornering and
One fleet’s experience with driver-facing cameras
In last month’s issue of Fleet Equipment, we ran an article, “The pros and cons of driver-facing cameras,” which, as the name implies, went over the debate concerning spec’ing driver-facing cameras. On the one hand, they can be beneficial to the fleet in the event of a lawsuit after a collision, as well as in
The pros and cons of truck driver-facing cameras
Put yourself in the shoes of a truck driver—the person you depend on to operate your equipment as efficiently and productively as possible. Your life is spent on the road, and while you have a schedule and goals to hit (MPG levels, on-time deliveries, etc.), above all, one of the great perks of your job
How driver-facing cameras work
Driver-facing cameras are generally part of a larger video telematics system, which is made up of a series of cameras and sensors that monitor driver and truck behavior and set alerts to the fleet manager if certain parameters are exceeded or violated. These parameters are typically customizable and are set by the fleet—for instance, a
