Jasper County to add dashcams onto secondary roads vehicles
Summary
Vehicles used by secondary roads workers already have GPS tracking devices installed in them, but now some will also be equipped with dashcams. The board of supervisors approved a 12-month subscription to Verizon Connect Reveal this week, which is a software that will not only monitor work but enhance liability. Jasper County Engineer Michael Frietsch said Verizon’s NetworkFleet, the GPS tracking software currently in use by some of the secondary roads vehicles, will be going away by the end of the year, prompting a need for a replacement. I mean there are other solutions counties are using, and I think this … will be a good opportunity for us to look at some of the other (systems).” At this point, Frietsch sees the dashcams as an extra insurance policy in case a complaint or a claim was brought against a secondary roads worker in a vehicle. “That dashcam is gonna pay for itself.” Frietsch hopes that by this time next year the county will have a work order system in place that can be monitored by GPS.