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14 Issue Two 2014 Reportage Photo&Illustration:Frigo-Trans The combination of telematics applications in the truck and trailer can offer significant added value. The pharmaceuticals logistics company, Frigo-Trans GmbH, is one of the first to use this strong combination. Their trailers have already been equipped with telematics for temper- ature monitoring for years now, and now the trucks are also being equipped with a system from idem telematics to optimise the logistics processes. The use of telemat- ics systems in transport logistics has been primarily dependent on the vehicle type to date. Some systems were purely focused on the semi-trailer, others rather more on the truck and specifically the driver. In many cases, this is justified especially when it is a matter of dealing with the vehicle’s tech- nical data for evaluation by the responsible fleet manager. However, logistics special- ists will see the situation differently: They are interested in the payload, its condition (for example the temperature of refrig- erated items), the arrival time at the next stop and similar parameters in the logis- tics process. This is precisely where infor- mation from both the truck and the towed unit is important. For example, if one con- siders the usual question asked by trans- port customers, namely the time when a delivery can be expected to arrive, it is nec- essary to find out what trailer the load is on. Then it is a matter of clarifying which truck is towing this trailer, and where it is located. Following that, the route of the truck must be evaluated with the intend- ed stops, taking in account all information related to the driver – such as mandatory breaks. This example alone indicates that combining information from the trailer and the tractor vehicle offers enormous added value. In the past, telematics providers have attempted to achieve these effects by link- ing sensors on the trailer directly with the telematics unit in the truck. For example, there have been additional cables between Telematics The best of both worlds – with significant synergy potential