Speed Limiters, I need them!
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Speed Limiters, I need them!
I have a fleet of Fed Ex vans, 03-12 5.4's. I need to put a 65mph speed limit on them. I've checked and Autoenginuity says their software won't do it. Any ideas? I have quite a few to do. Will a Ford mongoosepro from DrewTech do it? I wouldn't be opposed to an SCT if they can be configured to lower the speed limit instead of raise it?
Any insight is greatly appreciated! I'd love to hear from someone who works at a dealership that may be able to tell me what options are available with the OE ford software.
Thanks
Any insight is greatly appreciated! I'd love to hear from someone who works at a dealership that may be able to tell me what options are available with the OE ford software.
Thanks
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Did you contact these people ? Custom Dynomemeter Chassis Tuning Products and Services - 5 Star Tuning
And I think they are called Governors.........
And I think they are called Governors.........
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Blageurt has a good point, you can get the governer set with a custom tune. That's a relatively expensive option though, because you have to pay a license fee to SCT for each vehicle you tune. I believe it's a couple hundred dollars.
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Why don't you ask FedEx how to go about doing it ? The company I work for uses "PeopleNet" to control their drivers. And although I think it's just about the worst thing you can put in a commercial vehicle, it WILL force your drivers to shape up and fly right. It weeds out the bad apples and forces the good ones to quit. Afterall, if you cannot trust your drivers to do the right thing, you're hiring the wrong drivers to start with. Nothing worse than a company who feels the need to spy on their drivers. Pay your drivers by the hour and do so at a decent rate of pay, and see how slow they'll drive.
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These trucks are Fed Ex contractor trucks, not owned by Fed Ex. I talked to Mike at 5star today. I also played with the SCT 3015 I have and it looks like it will do what we need. I was hoping that the Ford VCM and software would do it. I'd much rather spend the money there and still have the other capabilities but it doesn't look like that will be an option.
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I worked for a company that used something called VDO fleetmanager set up to record speed, beep annoyingly at the driver anytime they were over x speed but did not set a hard limit. I think this was an ok solution for a big bureaucracy. I now run a small fleet and pay drivers by the hour. I firmly believe the FMCSA should require drivers to be paid by the hour. It's pretty obvious as a manager which drivers are dawdlers and which are speed demons, and it's not fair to them to cut their pay due to things out of their control like weather and loading delays. I don't want to create an incentive for them to speed but at the same time they have to explain what happened if they don't meet the schedule. We have GPS now also to double check the story. No reason to pay by the mile.
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I have a fleet of Fed Ex vans, 03-12 5.4's. I need to put a 65mph speed limit on them. I've checked and Autoenginuity says their software won't do it. Any ideas? I have quite a few to do. Will a Ford mongoosepro from DrewTech do it? I wouldn't be opposed to an SCT if they can be configured to lower the speed limit instead of raise it?
Any insight is greatly appreciated! I'd love to hear from someone who works at a dealership that may be able to tell me what options are available with the OE ford software.
Thanks
Any insight is greatly appreciated! I'd love to hear from someone who works at a dealership that may be able to tell me what options are available with the OE ford software.
Thanks
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