Cambodia’s crash rate is a cause for concern due to its high casualty problem. There were 2,731 serious crashes between January and September 2017 in Cambodia. These resulted in 1,357 road deaths and 4,222 serious injuries according to a report from Cambodia’s Traffic Police and Public Order Department. The two key causes of crashes in Cambodia were from drink driving and speeding according to the report.
Several of the major equipment manufacturers now offer sophisticated telematics packages fitted as standard to their machines. Caterpillar and Komatsu were amongst the leaders in this field, allowing a high level of access to a machine's systems and sub-systems for performance monitoring, maintenance management and geofencing purposes for example. To the customer this offers the chance to address fleet running costs and utilisation, reduce the risk of theft and increase overall efficiency. Customers can eve
Demand for telematics technology is growing, as equipment users begin to lean the value of these systems – Alan Dron reports
With construction projects increasingly operating to wafer-thin profit margins, any technological assistance that can keep the accounts in the black is welcome.
This is particularly the case with those projects where contractors can share a larger slice of the profits if they complete their work ahead of schedule. The downside, of course, is that they also share the pain if the
