Fleet Administration Functional Area

Description

Commercial vehicle fleet tracking, dispatch, and reporting - includes interfaces to state/federal commercial vehicle administration, toll administration, emergency management, and traveler information service providers. Supports pre-hiring checks and performance monitoring for drivers.

Included In

Fleet and Freight Management Systems

Functional Requirements

IDRequirement
1The center shall send data concerning enrollment of commercial vehicles for electronic clearance and tax filing to the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center. The data may include driver and vehicle identification, safety inspections/status, carrier credentials, related citations, and accident information.
2The center shall obtain and manage commercial vehicle routes for its fleet of vehicles, taking into account route restrictions, advance payment of tolls, HAZMAT restrictions, current traffic and road conditions, and incident information provided by traveler information systems.
3The center shall support an interface with a map update provider, or other appropriate data sources, through which updates of digitized map data can be obtained and used as the background for commercial vehicle fleet administration - includes commercial vehicle specific data such as route or HAZMAT restrictions.
4The center shall monitor the locations and progress of commercial vehicles against their planned routes and raise appropriate warnings based on route monitoring parameters.
5The center shall coordinate the response to security incidents and the sharing of security threat information involving commercial vehicles with other agencies including emergency management centers and alerting/advisory systems.
6The center shall access driver records from the appropriate commercial vehicle administration center and use the records to support pre-hiring checks for potential drivers and monitor the performance of each driver who is hired.
7The center shall monitor geographic trigger areas for wireless roadside inspection programs and distribute the trigger areas to their commercial vehicles.