APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR END USER FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION MONITORING

摘要

A method is disclosed for an improved consumer oriented secure surveillance system directed to a freight hauling. The method disclosed includes that an authorized tractor driver (e.g., contractor) and/or authorized tractor and the trailer (provided by the consumer) utilize a specified authorization code. A location tracking device is attached to the trailer and stores the specified authorization code. Location information of the location tracking device and the authorized tractor driver and/or an authorized tractor are monitored by an end-user along a destination route. The consumer can control usage of unauthorized tractor driver(s) (e.g., subcontractor(s)) and/or and unauthorized tractor(s) (e.g., subcontractor's tractor(s)) for freight shipment; thus, freight integrity can be controlled, optimized, and maintained to a desired consumer confidence level.

主权项

1. A method for an end user of a freight system to monitor integrity of freight throughout a designation route, the method comprising:
scheduling pick-up of a trailer having freight for transport to another destination; receiving an authorization code that identifies at least one of an authorized tractor driver and an authorized tractor for the pick-up of the trailer; assigning and storing remotely the authorization code for a location tracking device; attaching the location tracking device to a trailer; electronically connecting the trailer to the at least one of the authorized tractor and the authorized tractor driver; monitoring the location information by the end user of the location tracking device and the at least one of the authorized tractor driver and the authorized tractor along one or more stops of a destination route; determining if the trailer and at least one of the authorized tractor or the authorized tractor driver had a period of disconnectivity along the one or more stops of the destination route; and providing notification to the end user if the period of the disconnectivity was more than a specified period between the trailer and at least one of the authorized tractor or the authorized tractor driver.