Executive Dashboards: Fleet Activity at a Glance
Thomas M. Strah
| Managing Editorveryone who drives a truck glances frequently at the dashboard to check on speed, the fuel gauge and how vehicle systems are performing.
Some of the industry’s top transportation-management software companies are now offering “executive dashboards” for trucking managers to glance at — and to study.
An executive dashboard is actually a computer screen showing graphical displays of a company’s ongoing operational and financial conditions. And although miles per hour don’t appear, dollars spent and earned per load-mile do, if that's what the manager needs to see.