it's all to do with them prooving that you don't use the company vehicle during no working hours to save themselves the extra £3000 per employee it's going to cost them in tax

our system, as i've said before, measures your speed, acceleration, ignition on/off, harsh braking, etc

but it's also linked into to our pod system, so you get to work and, as soon as you've got to work, the system says "ignition on 05.55, ignition off 06.00, mr dojj has arrived at depot 06.00"
you then sort your stuff out and leave to do your round, let's be simple here and say you have 5 drops to do
you put your name into the mdt to load up the route
the computer says "mr dojj, logged on to route 5 06.45"
you leave the office to get to your first drop
computer says "ignition on 06.46, mr dojj departed depot 06.47"
it then figures out how long it shoudl take you to get to your first drop
if you break the speed limit it shows up as "exsessive speed 61.5 mph location unknown, normal running, normal running, ignition off 08.00, arrive mr smith 08.00"
then you do your thing, get your signature and it says "depart mr smith 08.05, ignition on"

and so on and so forth

you have to understand that this info is displayed on 3 different screens and you have the vehicle data, driver data, drop data, pod data in one, then you have reporting data in another, then you have th eoverall overview to tell you how late/early/on time yuo are running on another

not to mention that there is another screen with a map on it and you can trace back vehicle movements for years and years since we first had them inslated, for vehicles that we no longer have

everyone who "disables" them just marks themselves out to the ocmpany as being in need of further investigation, so you get the shitty van while they look into why your's doenst work, we had one guy who'd disconnect the pwoer to the device, and then reconnect it again when he'd done what he was doing, but the mileage never added up so he was caughtout that way, then you have feul bills and all sorts

so the company saves money, gets rid of it's troublesome staff, it's a win win situation for them so you just have to deal with it or find another job

ffs, even buses now are tracked