Like many companies with fleets of vehicles, AR Richards has suffered in the past from high insurance costs and painful 50/50 insurance claims for incidents that were not actually the fault of its drivers. Having used other camera solutions, the family run company from Shropshire have been with Fastview360 for several years now benefitting from their solutions and service.
With the benefit of Fastview360’s reliable products, AR Richards have all HGV’s fitted with a fully HD camera system, side detection system, event button and monitor as standard. The systems are all backed up with 1TB hard disk and cloud storage facilities giving the fleet office the benefit of accessing footage remotely.
The fleet office staff uses Fastview360’s AutoCMS to automatically collect video footage of any incident and gets the drivers to add their version of the incident on the AutoCMS driver app. Claims are now resolved in a matter of hours, saving thousands of pounds a year.
In the initial role out, a schedule of planned installs allowed minimal disruption to AR Richards schedule. As new vehicles are due to arrive, Fastview360 install the kit at the dealership, so the vehicle is ready to hit the roads as soon as it arrives at the AR Richards depot.
Each of the trucks is fitted with a minimum of a four-camera system from Fastview360, all of which are 1080p HD quality, along with an HD DVR with 4G, a 1TB hard disk, GPS and in-cab monitor. Some vehicles have up to nine-cameras to enhance safety around a bin lorry type vehicle where pedestrians are often in close proximity. This system provides a 360° view around the truck allowing it to record any incidents from any angle of impact. Using Fastview360’s AutoCMS cloud-based software, AR Richards can access their whole fleet of vehicles from one online platform to live view, view hardware status’ and manage incidents.
