How do I use Smartrak Overspeed Reporting?
Overspeed Reporting: Your Smart Way to Monitor Driving Behaviour
Purpose & Best Practice
Why it exists: Overspeed Reporting offers a granular view of speeding events - timings, durations, distances, speeds - to help investigate and understand driving behaviour more accurately. It's intended to support thoughtful investigation rather than immediate disciplinary actions.
Your first step: Always validate every speeding occurrence before deciding any course of action. Speeding may be legitimate or due to GPS blips - so investigate thoroughly.
Your Step-by-Step Playbook for Using Overspeed Reporting
Define your use case:
High Level Overview? → Use Dashboard
Quick overview? → Use Overspeed Severity Report or Driver Overspeed Severity Report
Deep dive into events? → Use Overspeed Period Report or Driver Overspeed Period Report
Need geographic context? → Use Overspeed Trips Mode
Focus on Driver Safety? → Use Insights - Driver Safety
Run the report:
Choose appropriate grouping (especially for the Severity report).
Select a suitable timeframe (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly).
Inspect for validity:
Drill down into each overspeed event details.
Use map mode to spot anomalies or patterns.
Contextualise before acting:
Factor in road conditions, time of day, potential GPS inaccuracies.
Confirm whether each incident warrants follow-up or is a false alarm.
Escalate to Smartrak Service Desk if needed:
If something doesn’t work or the reports aren’t populating correctly, raise a support request.
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Driver Overspeed Severity Report click for more information
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This report is a summary of each assets speeding across a given time range, with metrics relating to the regularity and extent of the occurrences. Each asset is then placed in a severity category based on where the assets speeding metrics fit on a scale compared to the other assets in the report. As such, the report is most effective when run with like vehicles / drivers.
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Driver Overspeed Period Report click for more information
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This report will detail each individual speeding period of a vehicle during a given time frame. Each occurrence will have an associated start time, duration, distance and minimum / maximum / average speed.
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Overspeed Trips Modeclick for more information |
This mode will highlight visually on the map the section of road for which the vehicle was speeding.
It will help determine when, where, and for how long vehicles were overspeeding, as well as identifying the average speed that occurred during the overspeed period.
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Polled Overspeed Eventsclick for more information How are Posted Road Speed Events Generated? |
Overspeed events will be generated approximately every 20 seconds from the first overspeed instance to the point at which the driver goes back below the overspeed threshold. By gaining a deeper insight into exactly where the vehicle was throughout the speeding period, it can be better determined if the overspeed period can be attributed to GPS inaccuracies, if any.
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Dashboard > Overspeeding Widgetsclick for more information
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These insights from Telematics data with RRS enabled provide managers with an easy-to-read summary of overspeeding incidents and help identify when and where overspeeding behaviour is most prevalent (the days of the week and time of day). These insights help target efforts to reduce driver, passenger and pedestrian risk. There are 3 indicators:
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Insights > Driver Safetyclick for more information |
The feature provided is a visual analytics tool within the Driver Safety module. It presents a clear and interactive graphical representation of overspeeding incidents over a selectable date range. The bar graph indicates the instances of overspeeding, and a detailed table lists information for individual drivers or vehicles (customers without driver ID) |
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The existing Vehicle Behaviour Report has been updated to include a column for the total duration of overspeeding. Initially, this column will be marked as ‘Not Recorded'. When the RRS is enabled for the organisation’s fleet, this data will subsequently become available.
This report will remain for general insight into overall vehicle behaviour and reporting on harsh driving metrics, however for more detailed information on overspeed behaviour, the new Overspeed Reports provide more thorough insight.
This is a legacy report to use with our legacy driver ID functionality and it is not recommended to use this report.
Watch the following video that guides you through the Overspeed Reporting features. |
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Quick Recap Table
Report/Feature | Use for... |
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Overspeed Severity Report | Getting a ranking of assets/drivers based on severity of speeding behavior |
Overspeed Period Report | Checking the specifics: when, how fast, how long, how far, who (if driver-based reporting is enabled) |
Overspeed Trips Mode (Map View) | Visual context to assess the validity and nature of events |
Polled Events | Accurately captures every moment of the overspeed event |
Dashboard | Summary of overspeeding, when and where overspeeding behaviour is most prevalent |
Insights - Driver Safety | Interactive graphical representation of overspeeding incidents |
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