Light Commercial Vehicle Driver Behaviour Technology – TRIMBLE

Light Commercial Vehicle Driver Behaviour Technology – TRIMBLE
Dear Colleague
As reported in LTBs 555/15 and 630/15, Branches will recall that Royal Mail has partnered with Trimble to improve safety whilst driving at work through the installation of in-cab technology, fitted to approximately 13,000 vehicles in approximately 1300 locations.
Data on different manoeuvres such as acceleration, braking and cornering is gathered using GPS in the on-board telematics unit installed in the vehicle with various profiles being compared against set standards (acceptable, moderate, harsh) accompanied by an audible warning sound.
The department has since been notified of an issue with the audible settings on the Large Van profiles for this technology, namely Peugeot Boxers, Peugeot Experts, Ford Transits and Vauxhall Vivaro’s. The Red Amber Green (RAG) light settings on these vehicles are set up correctly to highlight acceptable, moderate and harsh manoeuvres. The audible warnings however should be set to go off in line with drivers triggering a moderate or above manoeuvre. However, after a query received from a DO it has been noted that the buzzers are only triggered by manoeuvres which are more severe than the harsh setting. This means drivers will be seeing the lights moving up and down the scale, but not get an audible notification on individual instances of what is triggering the lights to move.
Trimble urgently need to reset this buzzer to the correct profile levels as fed back in real time to the vehicles in-cab technology. This may of course lead to an increase in audible warnings in the Large Vans across the country, causing concern to some drivers. In order to manage this change going forward, branches should note that such settings deemed necessary will only be adjusted on the following Large Vans; Peugeot Boxer, Peugeot Expert, Ford Transit & Vauxhall Vivaro week commencing Monday 8th August 2016.
This adjustment will be monitored at national level to ensure consistency of data gathering against agreed profiles in order to minimise any concern.

 

Any enquiries to Bob Gibson’s Office, quoting reference 300 

Email address:outdoorsecretary@cwu.org
Yours Sincerely

     

Bob Gibson                                

CWU Assistant Secretary – Outdoor