The Driver Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR) Update — Are You Still Using Paper Forms?
By Kelly Frey, VP Product Marketing, Telogis
It’s human nature – when we’ve been doing something the same way, day after day, year after year, it becomes a blind spot. We don’t stop to think about it unless something forces us to.
That’s what’s happened when the new ELD mandate was announced, requiring mandatory adoption of electronic logging devices for hours of service (HOS) by December 18, 2017.
We have time to reach compliance – but there are significant advantages to jumping into the new technology sooner rather than later. Along with the HOS going digital, it’s time to rethink paper-based driver vehicle inspection forms (DVIRs) as well.
A daily chore for millions of commercial vehicle drivers, filling in DVIR slips by hand as part of their pre or post-trip inspection is just one of those compliance tasks that we didn’t argue about. The legislation demanded it and we just got it done.
Getting a Great Start in the Fleet Industry
Nancy Bean, CAFM, the Fleet Manager for the City of Provo, recounts how she got her start as a mechanic in the military.
Azuga Announces International Expansion, Serving over 100 Fleets in 10 Countries Across the Globe
As connected vehicle solutions rise in global popularity, demand for the Silicon Valley-based solution’s innovative plug-and-play technology increases.
Azuga today announced the expansion of its sales operations serving over 100 fleets in 10 countries across Latin America, Europe, India and parts of the Middle East. The expansion comes as the Mobile Resource Management (MRM) sector forecasts 50% growth over the next five years in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC countries).
With mass adoption only a few years away, Azuga has made the necessary investments to continue leading the plug-and-play connected vehicle technology sector on a global scale.
Why Continuous Monitoring of MVRs Makes Sense
Continuous Monitoring of MVRs can help ensure that you don’t have someone driving for you when they shouldn’t be.
Maybe Traditional Automakers Could Be Winners In An Autonomous World?
Automotive executives have been suffering sleepless nights for years worrying that new technology thrusters like Google, Apple and Uber will suddenly blind-side them and effectively destroy their businesses.
Investment researcher Evercore ISI, in a report called “The Empire Strikes Back”, says maybe this isn’t inevitable and reminds the traditional industry and its suppliers that not least because of their sheer size, they still have some formidable weapons in their armoury.
The nightmare scenario is that the traditional automotive business will be vulnerable to these upstarts when transport becomes a commodity that you summon via an app.
