Work Truck Telematics Solutions Can Help Maximize Fleet Productivity

Improve fleet management

What challenges impact the productivity of your work truck fleet? Unexpected maintenance, nonproductive idle time and excess fuel usage all cost time and money.

A telematics system provides data that can help you get to the bottom of these issues and many others. With growing pressure to optimize fleet utilization, telematics-equipped vehicles are becoming the industry norm.

However, when truck telematics solutions don’t include a vehicle’s power system (or equipment), you get an incomplete picture of performance and usage.

How can truck telematics solutions improve productivity?

Telematics allow fleet managers to capture and analyze meaningful data about a fleet’s operation. This information can be used to improve productivity, reduce downtime and save money.

Measuring engine runtime and idle time can help you track where fuel is being used — or wasted — to help improve fuel economy and emissions. Monitoring a technician’s route between jobs can help you optimize routes and scheduling, to reduce overall miles driven and save time and fuel.

Knowing how many miles — and what type of miles — a truck is logging every day helps you spot potential problems. It also allows you to schedule preventive maintenance at the most convenient times.

An all-in-one that connects to telematics

You have an even greater ability to make data-driven decisions that improve fleet performance and efficiency when work truck power systems communicate with the truck’s telematics system.

The EnPak® A30GBW, EnPak A60HGE and EnPak A60GE power systems from Miller Electric Mfg. LLC are CAN bus-enabled systems that connect with the vehicle’s telematics. This connectivity delivers real-time data on the EnPak engine’s health, including the air compressor, and provides system error codes, service alerts and more as part of the truck’s total telematics report.

This information allows you to proactively schedule maintenance and track change management. This data is also a good way to compare idle time, fuel usage and other information for PTO-driven equipment versus an all-in-one. This can help justify purchasing decisions for the fleet.

Take idle off your truck

Connecting to telematics isn’t the only way a power system helps reduce downtime and improve productivity for work trucks. Reducing truck idle hours can significantly reduce downtime for maintenance and repairs.

A Tier 4 Final-compliant truck engine uses a diesel particulate filter (DPF) to trap soot from engine exhaust gases. This filter must be periodically cleaned through regeneration to maintain emissions reduction performance and fuel efficiency. The more a diesel truck engine idles, the more often the DPF must be cleaned.

PTO-driven equipment requires the truck engine to idle to power tools. Engine-driven all-in-one systems deliver compressed air, generator power, battery charging/crank assist, welding capabilities and the power to support 12-volt DC needs — all with the truck engine turned off.

The EnPakA30 power system can reduce truck engine idle time by up to 75 percent. This dramatically reduces maintenance costs and fuel consumption. It also increases productivity, and lowers the risk of downtime caused by DPF failures, regenerations and other truck engine-related problems.

Better fleet management

A work truck that’s down isn’t productive or profitable. Maximizing truck fleet productivity and efficiency starts with choosing reliable equipment and tools that help reduce downtime. This way service technicians are ready for anything.

A power system that connects to a work truck’s telematics solution delivers the power technicians need while also providing access to important data that can help identify potential problems. Tracking and analyzing information related to performance, idling and upcoming service intervals helps you find time and cost savings in the operation — so you can better manage the fleet.