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Trucks, telematics, fuel integrity and road restrictions.
A fleet owner’s Tuesday: 42 litres gone between 1:40 and 2:00 in the morning from a truck that never moved. How the loss showed up, what it looked like beside a real refuel, and why the driver was not blamed until the evidence said so.
Read articleThe tracker was fitted on Monday and the fuel sensor said nothing all week. The truck did not need to come back: the fix was done from the office in three minutes, and the device confirmed it. Why remote setup, with a read-back, is the part of fleet tracking that saves the money.
Read articleDubai bans trucks on Sheikh Zayed Road for sixteen hours a day. Riyadh closes to them from 08:00 to midnight. Six roads in the UAE are shut to heavy vehicles permanently, and Oman restricts two highways on Thursdays and Saturdays only. The full catalogue we maintain for our own routing — all six GCC states, with times, authorities and fines.
Read articlePhotographs and engineering notes from a live Omnicomm LLS capacitive fuel-probe installation on a tractor unit in the UAE — tank measurement, cutting the tank top, mounting and sealing the probe, wiring to the Teltonika tracker over RS-485, and the configuration that actually makes litres appear. Including the parameter values, the sentinel that fakes a full tank, and how the raw-to-litres curve is calibrated afterwards.
Read articleDiesel is 30-40% of a road fleet's running cost — and on unmonitored fleets a chunk of it is quietly stolen. The definitive GCC guide: how diesel is siphoned, why float gauges and spot-checks fail, and the full six-layer defence — fuel-level sensors, anti-siphon caps and devices, drain detection, station geofencing, receipt and fuel-card reconciliation, driver attribution, and remote engine immobilisation.
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