Tipper trucks: how tilt sensors stop unauthorised tipping
If you run tipper trucks, you are paid by the trip and you pay for the material. Both depend on knowing exactly where and how often each truck tipped. GPS alone can't tell you that — a tilt sensor can.
The problems tipper owners know too well
- Loads tipped at the wrong site — sold to a third party or dumped to save time.
- Extra trips made in the company truck for someone else.
- Trip counts that don't add up between the driver, the site and the office.
- The body raised while driving, hitting bridges, power lines or gantries.
A GPS tracker shows where the truck stopped, but a stop is not proof of tipping. The angle of the body is.
How a tilt sensor works
A small sensor is mounted on the tipper body and connected to the GPS tracker. It measures the angle of the body many times a second. After we calibrate the resting and fully raised positions, the platform knows exactly when the body goes up and comes down again.
Every tipping is recorded as an event with:
- the start and end time and how long it took,
- the exact location on the map,
- the highest angle reached.
Turning tipping events into control
Approved sites as geofences
Draw your quarries, construction sites and dumping sites on the map. A tipping inside an approved site is normal; a tipping anywhere else raises an alert straight away.
Trip counts you can bill on
The Tipping report counts the tippings per truck, per driver and per site. That is a number you can bill customers and pay drivers on, with no arguments.
Body-up-while-moving alerts
If the body is raised while the truck is moving, managers get an alert — preventing expensive and dangerous accidents.
Rollover alarms
On tankers and trucks, a sudden extreme angle of the chassis means a rollover. The platform raises an alarm with the location so help can be sent immediately.
Combine tilt with weight monitoring and you see not only where each load was tipped, but how much was tipped there.
Read more about Data Drive tilt angle monitoring.