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Editor Paul Barker quizzed attendees on telematics systems and whether the resultant cost savings were worth the initial outlay or if it they were simply an expensive, troublesome measure.
Hyundai's fleet boss Martin Wilson said: "It depends on the fleet it's needed for. For workhorse fleets, absolutely, but for the perk driver who parks his car at the office every day, why would you?"
Lex Autolease's Chris Chandler agreed: "You can take the shine off it [the perk] with something like that."
He continued: "An issue I regularly have is the term 'telematics'. It's very broad. Are you talking about live tracking? Are you talking about getting a record every month that flags up drivers etc?
"Are you using it to deploy vehicles effectively? If you're a supermarket and one of your refrigeration vehicles breaks down, then you've got something like an hour to get an engineer on site and repair that vehicle before you lose all your stock, so you'd be mad not to have it. If you've got drivers with very expensive and dangerous petrochemical vehicles, you're probably going to want to see what's going on with them.
"Moving down the ranks, when you start getting to the average fleet driver, you need to consider whether it's necessary."
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