Capital Equipment News April-May 2020

“Fuel prices are constantly on the rise and, nowadays, fuel savings can make up the bulk of the profit in the transport industry.”

Eugene van Niekerk, Ctrack GM product solutions

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as its European counterparts. We have no control over the information made available by the vehicle OEMs” he says. Heavy commercial vehicle OEMs make available CAN Bus J1939 data in compliance with international standards. This enables third parties such as Ctrack to access and extract the information. The company launched the Ctrack Fuel Solution to cater for medium and heavy commercial vehicles that does not offer CAN bus data. The four types of fuel monitoring sensors in use today are fuel flow meters; CAN bus, float systems and capacitive fuel sensors. Ctrack regards the latter as the most reliable means to monitor fuel usage in long-haul fleets. “We obtain our data on cars and vans through Beijer, but we introduced the Ctrack Fuel Solution for heavy and medium commercial vehicles. It is aimed at non- CAN bus vehicles and those models that don’t feature the J1939 protocol.” Fuel constitutes between 40 and 60% of most transport companies’ total operating cost, and statistics show that 97% of telematics users cite tracking and fuel

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“Ctrack has introduced its Ctrack Fuel Solution for heavy and medium commercial vehicles.

Fuel constitutes between 40 and 60% of most transport companies’ total operating cost, and statistics show that 97% of telematics users cite tracking and fuel monitoring as the top reasons for using telematics in their vehicles

Ctrack has found that while it is able to obtain CAN bus information on certain vehicle models in Europe and the UK via the Beijer database, the same vehicle model in South Africa does not provide the same information as its European counterparts

In municipal fleets, transportation can account for up to 20% of total expenses. The figure is around 30% for the construction industry and up to 40% for mining and heavy commerce

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