| 113 A couple of our trucks loading at our local Parkside Lime Quarry. Four generations of the Schultz family; John, Nivonne and Moss Schultz with Ayda, Kylie and James Stenton at the National Ground spreaders Conference. RURAL SERVICES » Mainland Spreading each and every one of the team home safely at the end of the day.” Kylie says Mainland Spreading had been in the market for about six years looking for roll-over and critical alert technology that could be activated by the truck rather than the driver, and was satellitebased rather than cellular due to the fact Mainland Spreading is often working in remote locations outside of cellular coverage. ”Eventually we found Fleetpin, and we worked with them to adapt one of their products which had been used for farm ATVs for use in our groundspread trucks.” Fleetpin is satellite-based and triggered automatically by the truck. Most importantly, it works quickly. “It’s given the drivers and myself the peace of mind that if anything did happen, we have an opportunity to help.” This technology offers Mainland Spreading three different options including a driver emergency button, a customisable limit warning alarm that goes off and alerts the office when a limit is being approached, and a roll-over alert which goes off and alerts the office when a vehicle breaches a certain pitch and roll. Settings can be customised to suit each driver, where they are working and their level of expertise. More experienced drivers have higher parameters, less experienced drivers have reduced parameters. Kylie says there is so much technology available now, but Mainland Spreading only wants to use what is absolutely necessary or useful. And John would agree. “It has to add value.”
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