Taking Screenshots for Proof of Delivery

With AutoAlert you can easily see when one of your drivers or engineers have arrived.

Our customers find this particularly useful if they get fined for late delivery or for jobs running late.

To get around this, our customers will often take a screenshot showing the arrival time and location which is often enough prove to their customer that they were on time.

A number of our haulage companies were facing exactly this kind of issue when they were delivering to ports.

Even though they were on time they had to wait at the gates while the lorries in front of them were processed. By showing their location and time, it was a lot easier to defend against the ports trying to fine them for late delivery (known as a demurrage charge).

Taking Screenshots with Microsoft Windows

To take a screenshot of the screen, simply click the print screen button (or PrtScn) – generally near the number pad on the top right of your keyboard.

This will copy the current screen to the clipboard. You can then paste it into an email or Microsoft Word Document before sending.

Taking Screenshots on an Apple Mac

On a Mac you have a number of options to take a screenshot:

• Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
• Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
• Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard and later, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):

• Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
• Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
• Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

Taking Screenshots on Linux

With Ubunta, you can take a screenshot of the screen by clicking Print Screen (PrtScn), in the same way that you can on Windows.

Pressing Alt Print Screen will take a screenshot of the active window.

More information

Check out our haulage customer case study for more information about the issues faced by some of our customers. We also have more information about our range of GPS Tracking Products and Job Management software.