Executive Dashboards: Fleet Activity at a Glance
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This article appeared in the April/May edition of TT's iTECH supplement. For the full story, see the April 18 print edition of Transport Topics. Subscribe today.
veryone who drives a truck glances frequently at the dashboard to check on speed, the fuel gauge and how vehicle systems are performing.
Some of the industry’s top transportation-management software companies are now offering “executive dashboards” for trucking managers to glance at — and to study.
An executive dashboard is actually a computer screen showing graphical displays of a company’s ongoing operational and financial conditions. And although miles per hour don’t appear, dollars spent and earned per load-mile do, if that's what the manager needs to see.
