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Keeping drivers healthy on the frontline against COVID-19
With the Coronavirus spreading worldwide and forcing everyone to stay home, demand for consumables and essential items increases, and the road transport industry steps up to keep drivers healthy.
The first quarter of 2020 was marked by what will be considered the moment that changed everyone's life. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a state of emergency was declared in countries all over the world, and people were forced to stay at home; but not…
INRIX Research 2019 Global Traffic Scorecard reveals the world’s most congested cities
Traffic data and analytics specialist INRIX Research released it’s 2019 Global Traffic Scorecard, detailing annual rankings of the most congested cities across the world.
Traffic data and analytics specialist INRIX Research released it’s 2019 Global Traffic Scorecard in March 2020. The Scorecard details annual rankings of the most congested cities across the world and an analysis of congestion and mobility trends for more than 900 cities across 43…
Frotcom International achieves SME Excellence status for the 6th year running
Frotcom International is proud to announce that it has once again achieved the SME Excellence award (in Portuguese “PME Excelência”) for the sixth year running.
The prestigious award, issued by the Portuguese Ministry of Economy through IAPMEI (The Public Agency for SME and Innovation), recognizes exceptional SMEs in Portugal. For Frotcom, the award acknowledges the work and dedication that Frotcom International and its Partners have shown…
Frotcom offers an easy and convenient way to pay tolls in Bulgaria
Frotcom enables fleet vehicles to declare tolls on Bulgarian motorways, high ways, and main roads.
On 1st March 2020, Bulgaria introduced a new electronic system of toll collection when using paid motorways, highways and main roads. The new system collects information corresponding to the distance traveled and applied to the designated total of 3,115 km and calculates fees for all motor vehicles over 3.5tons of category M2, M3, N2, and N3.…
Green Hydrogen can be cheaper than Diesel by 2050
An independent study carried by BloombergNEF (BNEF) reckons that heavy-duty vehicles might be inclined to switch to alternative fuels, like green hydrogen, shortly.
The study entitled “Hydrogen Economy Outlook” conducted by BloombergNEF (BNEF) concluded that the falling cost of making green hydrogen from water, using renewable electricity like wind turbines and solar panels, offers a promising route to cutting emissions, at a manageable price.…
GPS vehicle tracking and sensor monitoring
Managing your office from a vehicle would be difficult, but managing your vehicles from the office is not necessarily much easier. Unless you use the right tools.
Set up Severity Levels in your Frotcom Fleet Alarms
Frotcom now allows you to create severity levels for user-defined alarms with a brand new feature.
Any alarm set by the users is always important. Still, there is a noticeable tendency in larger fleets to have numerous unprocessed alarms, and that can prevent a critical alarm from being processed - or even noticed - by the user in time.
To overcome this, Frotcom is glad to announce the new Severity Level feature, which will give users the possibility to create up to four severity levels for their alarms and to monitor them in a much simpler and efficient way.
To configure your severity…
How can Frotcom help fleets reduce fuel costs?
Whether you manage a large or small vehicle fleet, we can help you save fuel, reduce operational expenditure costs, and grow your business.
For most vehicles on the market today, the impact of eco-driving vs. aggressive driving on fuel consumption can exceed 30%.
To save on fuel costs, you can implement some measures right away, such as providing training sessions about driving behavior to your drivers and the negative impact of excessive…
Improve your Driving Times using Restriction rules
Learn how to better optimize your Driving Times using Frotcom’s Restriction Rules functionality.
A set of options is available for you to control and improve your fleet Driving times using Restriction rules. These rules allow you to calculate Nearest vehicles and Directions, both for a single driver or a Driving Team.
To activate the driving time restriction rules, first, enable the option in Administration > Account - Driving conditions - Driving time restriction.
To start calculating Directions and Nearest Vehicles you just need to open the Settings popup, select Use driving time…
Passenger Land Transport fight for survival during COVID-19
The passenger land transport industry is practically stopped due to the pandemic containment measures.
As the COVID-19 pandemic containment measures forced millions of people to stay home, passenger transport operations had an almost overnight standstill for hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Apart from limited urban services, some companies report an activity decrease of at least 90% for intercity and 100% for…