New: The free FleetBoard fleet management app – keeping a clear view on the road

• First telematics provider with fleet management and operating analysis app for iPhone/iPad
• Schedulers have mobile access to the vehicles and can communicate changes at short notice

Stuttgart – Daimler FleetBoard is the first provider of telematic solutions to offer a fleet management and operating analysis app for the Apple iPhone and iPad. This enables trucks and vans to be controlled at any time while on the road, and an operating analysis of the last tour to be shown.

"This is just about the best management tool currently available in the logistics market," says Hubertus Kobernuss, General Manager of the haulage company Kobernuss in Uelzen. "My schedulers have mobile access to the vehicles, and use the app several times each day. The technology works perfectly – I am extremely happy with it."

Fleet operators attach increasing importance to round-the-clock control of their fleet's cost-effectiveness, and want continuous communication with their vehicles. FleetBoard transmits vehicle and tour information by radio signals while the vehicles are on the road, and makes this available with password protection. On the basis of these FleetBoard data, rapid and extensive evaluations on a PC demonstrably enable the fuel and servicing costs as well as the CO2 emissions of commercial vehicles to be reduced by 7% during the first three months of use. Moreover, the drivers and vehicles can be integrated in even the most complex logistical processes. More and more operators and schedulers are putting these benefits to good use. Wherever the vehicles are, the FleetBoard fleet management app provides them with information whether tours are running as scheduled, or whether some form of action needs to be taken – if necessary also at night.

"With this app, FleetBoard provides even more transparency and an additional fleet management tool for increased productivity throughout the vehicle fleet," says Markus Lipinsky, General Manager of Daimler FleetBoard GmbH. "It is an ergonomic compilation of the most important information from our vehicle and logistics service."

In the version just presented, vehicle positions and tours can be followed live with a vehicle or driver-related display of the driving style evaluation for the last tour. Schedulers are able to send text messages to the drivers at any time, enabling them to accept assignments at short notice while keeping an eye on the remaining time allowed at the wheel. In addition the latest FleetBoard manuals, user reports and news are made available.

Use of the new FleetBoard app is conditional on a vehicle equipped with FleetBoard and a FleetBoard services contract. The new FleetBoard app can be obtained from the App-Store free of charge with immediate effect.

More information about the FleetBoard app may be found at www.fleetboard.com.

Pictures with numbers 11A48 and 11A49 are available online: www.media.daimler.com

About FleetBoard: Daimler FleetBoard GmbH is among the Europe-wide market leaders in the field of commercial vehicle telematics. The terminals and services are aimed at fleet managers, schedulers and drivers for truck, bus and van fleets of all brands and sectors. FleetBoard has been well-established for years as a fleet management system for more cost-effectiveness and transparency. Easily operated technology supports the driver in day-to-day operations. This wholly-owned Daimler subsidiary based in Stuttgart is DEKRA-tested and certificated according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008. Since the market launch of FleetBoard in 2000, more than 75,000 vehicles operated by 1700 customers have been equipped. FleetBoard employs more than 200 personnel, and serves the markets of Europe, Brazil, South Africa and the Middle East.

Karin Giangrande
Daimler FleetBoard GmbH
Am Wallgraben 125
70565 Stuttgart
Tel: +49 (711) 17-91909
Fax: +49 711 1779058099
karin.giangrande@daimler.com

This release was published on openPR.