Top Vehicle Safety Features You Get with TrackoBit

Explore top fleet vehicle safety features TrackoBit offers to protect and safeguard your fleet from theft and misplacement.

Fleet vehicles are one of the prized possessions for fleet businesses irrespective of the fact they are leased or bought after spending long-term savings. They become extra expensive and valuable when used to transport valuable consignment and goods. While operating a fleet, there remain risks of their theft and mishandling.

It’s hard to imagine when the assigned fleet is running on a scheduled route and suddenly encounters a thief breaking into the vehicle or pilfering fuel from the tank.

But don’t worry, TrackoBit brings exclusive vehicle safety features in its vehicle telematics software that secures your assets from unauthorized access or theft.

Here we are discussing every robust feature you get in our vehicle safety solutions range.

Top Vehicle Safety Features TrackoBit Equips Your Fleet Business With

Here is a whole suite of fleet vehicle safety features our fleet management software surrounds businesses concerned with safe and on-schedule fleet arrival.

1. Live GPS Tracking Data

Our fleet management software provides you with 99.9% accurate, up-to-the-minute locational data to track valuable vehicles, trailers, equipment, and cargo in real time. With the software, you can effortlessly assign safe and efficient routes, mark waypoints, and set POIs for your drivers to navigate around. This way, you ensure the safe and sound transit of fleet and assets.

The best part? Our software is compatible with 1500+ GPS hardware available in the market. 

2. Virtual Geofencing Violation Alerts

To ensure your vehicles navigate safe routes and paths, we let you pre-define virtual boundaries around which you want your delivering vehicles to operate. Not just that, you even get the option to set geofence violation or route deviation alerts. You instantly get notified whenever the vehicles are entering or leaving these defined zones.

3. Parking Mode

Parking vehicles anywhere at any hour of the day without worrying about their safety is a constant thought. But not anymore, because now you have our vehicle safety solution range with parking mode alerts. You just have to enable the parking mode in our vehicle telematics software and receive alarms whenever your commercial vehicles are in movement, getting towed, and even when the ignition is on.

4. Live Video Feed

Now have great surveillance with the power of video telematics solutions. Outfit your valuable fleet with robust dashcams. Just sit back and watch over drivers in the cabin and the vehicle’s on-road activity. Receive alerts whenever any odd or irregular in-cabin behaviour such as smoking, drowsiness, absence from the cabin, or on-road violation like collision, signal jumping, or sharp turning is encountered.

As a manager, hold your drivers accountable for every unjustified driver behavior. 

5. Remote Engine Immobilisation

Commercial vehicle theft is one of the most concerning issues for fleet managers. It does not just cost them the price of the vehicle. It also costs fleet businesses the value of consignments that were getting transferred, the cost of drivers’ wages, and the tarnished reputation.

To prevent this grey situation, our safety feature includes a remote engine immobilization feature. With a tap of the mobile app, you can lock/unlock vehicles without any SMS verification. You can easily prevent your valuable vehicle from being driven away.

6. SOS Button

The panic button comes in handy when your drivers are stuck in an emergency situation and are unable to reach out to anybody for help. Equip your drivers with our smart driver app featuring the SOS button, so you on the other hand receive an immediate alarm and send in help. 

7. Battery Disconnection Alerts

Vehicle theft is one concern but battery theft is another big concern that many transporters experience in developing countries. But now you don’t have to fret, as our vehicle telematics software has a smart battery disconnection alarm that goes off when the battery gets disconnected from the vehicle.

8. Alerts on Fatal Driving Events

Our vehicle safety solution range provides you access to notifications and precise reports detailing when the driver is on the cusp of risky driving behaviour. You get report on 50+ reports indicating when the vehicle was near a collision or fatal accident. You have data-led reports and video footage explaining who was at fault – was it your fleet driver or the other party?

9. Driver Identification

You don’t want anyone else apart from your assigned drivers to drive the fleet. We at TrackoBit have taken care of that by enforcing smart driver identification solutions. The driver apps for your operators have fool-proof biometric features to mark attendance, verifying that only approved drivers are behind the wheel.

Additionally, you can identify drivers with our smart DMS solutions. You get clear footage detailing that the person driving your fleet is your assigned driver only. 

10. GPS Device Tampering Alerts

Many times, fleet drivers don’t want you to monitor their fleet operations, so they destroy the GPS devices. And you suddenly lose sight of your fleet. But we have programmed our fleet management system very smartly and have added advanced GPS device tampering alerts that notify you whenever the driver tries to tamper with the device or installed e-locks.

11. Fuel Pilferage Alerts

Fuel or diesel theft is another big event that disrupts fleet businesses in uncanny ways and causes financial losses in great numbers. To avoid that, we offer software equipped with fuel monitoring systems. You get real-time reports and alerts on every fuel refill, draining, and pilferage activity.

Make Sure You Have Fleet Safety Programs In Place

Alongside using vehicle safety solutions, you need to establish fleet safety programs that teach drivers how to protect themselves against liability from vehicle accidents.

Having such a fleet safety program will establish the habit of screening, testing, inspecting, and training drivers.

Here’s what you all do during your fleet safety programs:

1. Screen and Select Drivers Carefully

First and foremost, you must build a team of reliable, skilled, and experienced drivers. Without having reliable drivers, your long-term safety record can be compromised. Make sure to set hiring standards and a very stringent screening process.

2. Identify your Drivers

Once you have a team of diligent drivers in place, you must carefully inspect your drivers’ driving habits and patterns. Carefully gauge their driving behaviour, conduct, and habit.

We suggest doing this by using telematics solutions with driver scorecards. The software scores your drivers based on their conduct and driving patterns. The system will rate less to drivers who put sudden brakes, harsh acceleration, and over speeds, and increase the risk of collisions. And higher to the drivers who put up with the best driving skills.

3. Train Fleet Drivers

Regularly share the latest vehicle safety policies and procedures with your drivers. Make sure your drivers have access to safe driving strategies and techniques. Give them proper instruction on defensive driving.

Ensure that your drivers are driving safely and following fleet safety rules.

4. Manage Accidents as They Occur

Stay prepared with video telematics solutions. Prep your drivers to avoid risks on the road and teach them how to handle situations during accidents.

5. Have Vehicle Inspection Maintenance Plans

Ensure your vehicles are regularly serviced and are in spic and span condition. TrackoBit offers a maintenance reminder feature that prevents unexpected breakdowns and costly repairs.

Moreover, to ensure drivers are free from the blame of damaging the vehicle, we offer the option of submitting eDVIR reports — at the start and end of the trip. Your drivers can carefully inspect the assigned truck for any flaws, and submit inspection reports through their installed driver app itself.

Timely inspecting and submitting these reports will help detect faulty equipment and prevent major mishaps from occurring.

Tune Your Fleet for Advanced Vehicle Safety With TrackoBit

Two things should never be compromised while managing a fleet of commercial vehicles:

• Its safety
• Its timely maintenance

We know how to take care of both. Our practical solutions, including vehicle safety features within vehicle telematics software, provide you with the capabilities to operate and monitor the fleet safely.

If we were you, we wouldn’t wait to get a free demo of proven and advanced telematics software.

Get your demo here now.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is fleet safety?

  Fleet safety is a program where fleet businesses establish safety policies and procedures to improve driver safety and behavior, reduce risk and costs in fleets, and meet compliance regulations.

• Why is vehicle telematics software important?

  Vehicle telematics software helps monitor fleet activities, right from their dispatching to routing to trip and maintenance management. It provides proactive reminders and reports on risky driving reports, irregular driver behavior, and improper fleet performance. In the long run, you enjoy reduced fleet costs, improved fleet operations and make decisions about optimum asset utilisation and management.