Commercial vehicles, whether mission-critical or central to the business model, come with major cost commitments. This includes unavoidable maintenance costs and uncontrollable rising fuel costs. When you have a fleet, these costs are (naturally) multiplied. It’s already a discouraging “cost...
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Overview of Video Telematics Systems A Video Telematics System combines telematics capabilities with mobile video technology to provide an additional layer of protection for fleets. In addition to tracking location information, these systems capture video from one or more cameras...
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FQ Wireless is pleased to announce that Switchboard ELD, one of the top selling ELD applications in the US market, has now received Canadian ELD Certification from Transport Canada. With this certification in place, we are now pleased to accept...
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Verizon insists that you sign a contract for that new fleet dash cam system. In fact, they like contracts so much, they’ll make you sign a new one for every dash cam that you add going forward. That means that...
Read MoreSwitchboard ELD is a low cost Canadian ELD service provided by FQ Wireless, an industry leader in telematics solutions for over 23 years. The company’s roots in telematics systems pre-date the ability of cellular telephone systems to handle wireless data....
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Choosing the best ELD system can be difficult, with the plethora of competing systems to choose from in the market. Making any attempt at doing your own on-line research can be a challenge as well. The vast majority of the...
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The Time Is Here for ELD’s The ELD (Electronic Logging Device) mandate for fleets operating in the USA passed on December 18th, 2017, with the new rules now fully in effect. Large national motor carriers were generally supportive of the...
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If you were to look up the word ‘risk’ in the dictionary, it wouldn’t be inappropriate to see a picture of a tow truck in the middle of a freeway pileup. There are few industries where risk comes more guaranteed...
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In the GPS tracking and fleet telematics markets, there is a shift taking place, whereby businesses with field vehicles are replacing standard GPS tracking devices with mobile video devices. Mobile video devices can be in the form of Dash Cam systems...
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For virtually any service organization with employees that tend to be out and about in the field, maintaining effective control and operational efficiency of those resources is critical to profitability. External employees, vehicles and equipment resources represent your most significant...
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