10,000 units of TIP Insight telematics milestone reached
Since the launch of TIP Insight, TIP’s range of telematics solutions in 2020, a significant milestone was reached recently, with 10,000 units now fitted to trailers on the roads of the UK and Ireland! The units have been fitted, not only to many of TIP’s fleet of trailers on hire, but also to operator-owned trailers, helping to reduce transport costs and boost operators’ compliance.
Cost efficiencies for operators with TIP Insight fitted to their fleet have been realised as a consequence of being able to report on their trailer’s journeys via the system’s reporting suite, FleetConnected Reports, which reports on anything from time spent on the road, including route data, time stood still and even on loads carried.
Such reporting is helping transport operators to make better decisions concerning their fleet and to become more competitive in the process.
TIP Insight has a modular approach and the addition of the DoorPlus module further enhances the security of cargo by using sensors on the rear doors of box-van and reefer trailers to detect the doors opening.
Likewise, its tyre pressure monitoring system module, TyrePlus, enables constant monitoring of trailer tyre pressures to provide safety and operational efficiency benefits to operators. Forthcoming EU legislative changes are keeping TPMS in the spotlight at present.
It is the inclusion of BrakePlus, TIP’s electronic braking performance monitoring system (EBPMS), as one of those modules, however, that has driven the adoption of TIP Insight units by the UK’s trailer fleet.
Launched in the early part of 2021, BrakePlus was introduced to address the need for an alternative to performing regular roller brake tests and, in doing so, follow the recommendations published in the DVSA’s ‘Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness’.
With BrakePlus activated, operators may only need to perform one roller brake test a year in order to stay compliant, whilst boosting the safety of trailers with continuous monitoring of the performance of their braking system.
Last year it was announced that those recommendations were set to change in the spring of 2025, so that regular roller brake tests or use of EBPMS will be the only means of assessing brake performance.
It is the system’s ability to alert operators to a deterioration in performance of a trailer’s braking system, combined with TIP’s readiness to address performance issues detected via its comprehensive network of branches (& supported by its authorised third-party service providers) that provides TIP with a unique proposition for transport operators.
Here’s to the next 10,000!
Read the Press Release for more.
