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Vehicle
Fuel
Driver
Extra Parameters
Sensors
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Shown as its own column on the Live list. This is the
sentence, not the code — the customer’s own identifier goes in
Asset ID under Extra Parameters.
The GPS unit fitted to the vehicle — not the vehicle’s own make/model, which is under Vehicle Info below.
Get this wrong and the command drives the wrong relay, or
drives the right one the wrong way. A normally-closed relay cuts on
LOW — the safer wiring, because a dead tracker then leaves the
vehicle drivable. Check the installation rather than assuming: on this
fleet DOUT1 reads HIGH on vehicles that are driving perfectly well.
Teltonika hardware only for now.
The timezone configured on the tracker itself — not where the vehicle drives. JT/T 808 units send a bare timestamp with no timezone in it, so the platform cannot work this out on its own: set it wrong and every trip lands at the wrong time of day. Leave at UTC unless you have checked the device’s own settings.
For plant billed by the hour — an excavator, a
generator, a crane. The equipment reports multiply this by the hours
the machine actually ran, in this company’s own currency. Leave
it empty on anything that is simply driven: the reports then show its
hours with no money against them.
Type is what shape the vehicle is; Class is the
regulatory band a site cares about. A van can be either, so it is asked
rather than worked out — and left unset until somebody knows.
These figures produce an ESTIMATE, not a
measurement. Mileage times a rate somebody typed is a defensible
number and a useful one — it is not a reading from a tank, and no
report will add the two together or let one stand in for the other.
Machine hours are counted separately from idling. A
crane or a compressor running static is doing the job, not wasting
fuel, and folding it into idling would report the work as waste.
Only for vehicles reporting the CAN fuel-used
counter (io.107). Leave blank until it is measured — the
report then shows the raw counter rather than a guess. To measure
it, take the fuel-card litres for this vehicle over a month and run
tools/calibrate_fuel_counter.py.No year, because they recur. The rate is chosen from
the date of the driving, so a report over a season boundary uses both.
Who has driven this vehicle, and
when. A tag presented to the reader beats the office record —
when a relief driver takes a vehicle for a day, the assignment still
names the regular driver and the reports must not. Assign a driver to a
vehicle on the Drivers page; this is the record of what has been true.
Changing this closes the
current record and opens a new one. The previous driver keeps
every trip up to now — reports over past months do not
change.
Contract and KOC details for this vehicle. Every field is
free text you can type over at any time; nothing here is filled in
automatically, and nothing is required. These are the fields the KOC
reports will quote back.
The box itself is painted by
your browser in ITS locale — that is an operating-system control
and the page cannot change it — so the date is repeated beside it
as dd/mm/yyyy, which is what the KOC paperwork uses. Stored as a
real date either way, so “expiring within 30 days” can
actually be asked of it later.