GPS Tracking Devices Help Protect Refridgerated Trailers

Fleet managers are becoming able to access an increasing range of benefits from investment in GPS tracking, including door status and fuel level. They are already accustomed to saving fortunes by doing away with time sheets and the accompanying administrative costs; they already rely on GPS tracking to be able to monitor unauthorized use and restrict idle time, but the options available develop at an astonishing pace.

Thermo King now offer a system tracking asset location for refridgerated trailers which can transmit, to a central facility, real-time temperature data and unit functionality, it identifies door-opening events and alerts managers, via their computer screen, to potential alarms conditions which may exist. It even allows managers to control refrigeration units on demand. This system, the TracKing Cellular GPRS system, gives all the usual functions on which fleet managers have come to depend, GPS mapping, status, operating functions and alert information,. The complete history of every vehicle is available at the touch of a button.

Other features include the facility to monitor and control speeds at which a specific trailer unit is driven, start, pre-trip stop and defrost, the operating mode. The system allows managers to return and discharge air, clear alarms and monitor the fuel level, hour meter and door status, the battery voltage and unit power status,
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