Speeding

The platform can check vehicle speed against several kinds of limit. You don’t have to use them all. Pick the ones that answer the questions you actually get asked.

The kinds of limit

Limit	What it checks	Good for
Device speed limit	A single top speed set on the tracker.	A hard ceiling, such as 110 km/h for a light vehicle or lower for a loaded truck.
Posted road speed limits	The vehicle’s speed against the signed limit for the road it’s on.	Catching 80 in a 60 zone through town, which a single top speed would miss.
Platform speed limit	One limit applied across your whole account.	A simple company-wide rule.
Zone speed limits	A limit inside a zone you’ve drawn.	Yards, depots, mine sites and community roads with low limits.
Max speed in zone	The highest speed reached inside a zone.	Checking compliance on a site without an alert every time.

Device speed limit

The device speed limit is set on the tracker itself. We manage tracker settings, so contact us to set or change it.

Posted road speed limits

Posted road speed limits are the most useful for most fleets, because they reflect where the vehicle actually is. The same 70 km/h is fine on the highway but too fast past a school.

Note

Road speed limits come from map data. On new roads, through roadworks, or on station and community roads, the posted limit on the map may be missing or out of date. Treat a single event as a prompt to check, not as proof.

Zone speed limits

To set a limit for a zone:

1. Draw the zone, or open an existing one. See Geofences.
2. Enter the limit in the zone’s Speed Limit field.
3. Save it, and set up an alert rule if you want to be told when it’s broken.

Get alerts for speeding

Speeding events are recorded against the trip. Each trip in Trips shows its Speeding time and Max Speed, and the Overspeed report lists every event with the speed and the limit. When you run it, choose Speeding (Road speed limit), Speeding (Platform limit) or Speeding(Device limit). See Reports.

For alerts, the Alert Trigger list includes Overspeed - road speed limit and Overspeed - Device Speed Limit. To be told when they happen, set up an alert rule for the kind of limit you care about. See Alerts and notifications.

Using speed data sensibly

1. Pick one main rule first. Posted road limits, or a sensible device limit, is enough for most fleets to start with.
2. Look for patterns. One brief event overtaking a road train is different from a driver who’s over the limit every afternoon.
3. Talk to drivers early. Show them the trip and the speeds. Most people slow down once they know it’s being looked at.
4. Be clear up front. Tell your team you track speed, and why. See Tracking your staff.

Related

• Driver behaviour
• Trips and history
• Reports