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on-board equipment, operators can not only monitor a driver's negative habits, such as harsh braking and acceleration, engine idling and over-speeding, but also record positives such as the correct use of cruise control and gears and time spent in the engine's 'sweet spot. From that data, it can build up a driver profile according to its seven A to G EcoStyle categories. For the moment, MAN will be focusing its efforts on selling the monitoring system, which costs about £2,000 per truck, on its own models, although Evans says: "In time, we'll look to offer it on all makes."
Meanwhile, MAN Truck & Bus operations director Dave Cussans says it's only right drivers should be rewarded for improving their employers' bottom line: "To realise these [potential] savings and sustain them, we need to guarantee the driver remains at level B in the long term my suggestion would be to 'cut them in'!"