Volvo Trucks North America
Offering video telematics is another example of Volvo Trucks’ commitment to delivering best-in-class solutions to its customers. Utilizing machine vision and artificial intelligence technology, the Lytx DriveCam event recorder helps to monitor and evaluate driver performance by accurately identifying behaviors such as failure to wear a seatbelt, following distance and lane departure. The windshield-mounted system is designed to help improve driver safety, operational efficiency and DOT compliance, and serves as an effective tool for driver training. It can also assist in defending professional drivers when accidents occur due to other road users.
“Advanced video telematics are an important extension of Volvo Trucks’ industry-leading safety offerings, which can help improve a fleet’s safety score,” says Ashley Murickan, product marketing manager, Volvo Trucks North America. “This in-cab technology not only helps with driver training
If your truck navigation tells you to cross a bridge, should you do it?
by Jasmine Reimer/
What s the use in trusting a GPS that isn t designed for your truck s specific features? There are better and safer solutions, and they re powered by location tech.
“It was quite a fall, Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP), Sgt. Scott White said about an accident that involved a twenty-six-ton semi-truck and a bridge in Westphalia, Missouri in August of this year.
Because of the oversight, forty thousand pounds of animal feed spilled from the truck s trailer into the riverbank below and the driver faced legal charges. Not to mention the cost of delays, loss of goods, and repairs.