Shaw Tracking says it’s entered into a strategic alliance and patent licence with SpeedGauge that can give carriers reports that rate and rank drivers and identify speed-limit violations. Shaw figures that, as fleets prepare for the implementation of Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010), monitoring and managing speed is going to be an increasingly integral part of any safety and compliance program.

SpeedGauge is said to be a simple, straightforward safety training tool that uses street-level speed-limit analysis by GPS (location and speed) to identify what could be high-risk driving behaviour. Specifically, it helps fleet managers identify drivers that habitually drive at excessive speeds on different types of roads.

It can help managers find drivers who speed through residential neighborhoods and it can rank drivers’ tendencies to exceed higher speed limits while comparing them to the average for the entire fleet. Perhaps most usefully, it can measure changes in driver behaviour over time.