All notes

Everything here, by subject. These are notes to consult rather than a sequence, and most people arrive with one question.

All 50 notes

Set run-in rather than as a list, so each subject can be taken in at a glance. These are notes to consult rather than a sequence to work through, and the order within a section carries no meaning.

Foundations

4 notes

Position is the headline and the smallest part of the value. What the device can read decides everything that follows.

What the Vehicle Itself Reports Where the Data Comes From The Question to Ask First The Four Things

Condition and maintenance

5 notes

A failure caught as a code is a scheduled repair; the same failure caught by the driver is a recovery and a cancelled day.

Fault Codes Servicing by Condition Rather Than Date Tyres and the Cheap Things That Are Not Temperature-Controlled Loads Sensors Beyond the Vehicle

What it costs

9 notes

The vehicles you are paying for and not using are usually the first finding, and the one that funds the deployment.

Fuel Vehicles You Are Paying For and Not Using What a Vehicle Actually Costs Electric Vehicles Vehicle Off Road Cost Per Mile and Its Traps When to Replace a Vehicle Idling Seasons and Weather

Compliance

5 notes

Inspections assess whether a system exists rather than whether you have been lucky, which is why achieved intervals matter.

Daily Checks The Records an Inspection Asks For Holding the Data Safely Emissions and Reporting Obligations What to Keep and For How Long

Buying and fitting

8 notes

The field list per vehicle model is the question that separates products. Everything else in the brochure is the same.

Choosing a System Fitting the Devices Connecting It to What You Already Have Where to Start Making the Case Honestly Small Fleets The First Quarter After Fitting Reading a Vendor Claim

Running it

11 notes

The installation is a project; what follows is a permanent part-time job that is routinely unassigned.

Alerts That Get Acted On Whether the Data Is Any Good Theft, Recovery and Insurance More Than One Depot Parts, Workshops and Who Does the Work Hired and Leased Vehicles How These Deployments Fail Who Owns the Fleet Data After a Collision Whether the Numbers Are Believed The Annual Review

The boundary

4 notes

The same device produces asset data and personal data. Keeping them separate is a configuration decision with legal consequences.

Where the Vehicle Ends and the Person Begins Requests to Refuse Talking to Drivers About the Devices How to Decline a Request

Reference

4 notes

The end state as a checklist, and the questions this data cannot answer however it is configured.

What a Working Deployment Looks Like What the Data Cannot Tell You Glossary What Telematics Cannot Fix