Dan Jauch, the vice president of operations for Krapf School Bus, a third-generation family owned and op- erated business out of Delaware, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, started using GPS technology from Geotab in 2017. With that, he said comes the Geotab Marketplace. Jauch, also the president of the New Jersey School Bus Contractors Association, explained it op- erates similar to an app store, in which in addtion to logging into Geotab to see the location of one’s vehicle, the speed of the vehicle, and all the GPS data. He ex- plained, there are also add-ons available from the Geotab Marketplace that can be utilized for different features. One that Krapf uses is the Rosco Vision DV6 camera
powered by AI-enabled software, a product deployed about a year ago. About half of the company’s 2,000 buses utilize it. He noted that within the next 18 to 24 months, it will be outfitted on the remaining buses. Josh Blackmun, president of Eagle Wireless, the ven-
dor for all onboard technologies for Krapf, explained that with each technology comes a driver scorecard. “Rosco allows for the import of behavior related rules broken via the telematics device (Geotab) to import into the Rosco
scorecard to stack results from both telematics and cam- eras in a single scorecard,” he explained. Blackmun added that the Rosco Driver Scorecard
integrated into Geotab pulls telematics-related behavior rules and combines with the Rosco A.I.-based rules for a single driver safety scorecard. The telematics examples include speeding, harsh braking, harsh cornering, and potential major or minor accident. The DV6 camera cap- tures distracted driving, cell phone use, seatbelt usage and forward collision warning. Jauch added where this becomes helpful is with driver coaching and recognizing dangerous behavior. He noted that the scorecards show the company’s best and worst performing drivers. “Then you can dive in and say, I want to look at my
bottom 3 percent based on their performance and dive into their scorecard, and that will let you drill down into some of the unsafe driving habits that are being recorded,” he said, adding that the cameras will trigger a video clip. Jauch added that this allows managers to view their drivers’ behaviors and correct them in a proactive man-
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