Carrier vehicle running management assisting system and communication terminal device

A communication terminal device installed on a carrier vehicle for providing a predetermined item of information on running of said carrier vehicle to a business place to which a plurality of carrier vehicles for carrying a predetermined material good to a predetermined destination belong, comprising:

• position information acquiring means for acquiring one's own position information on a GPS signal;
• time information acquiring means for acquiring time information corresponding to said position information;
• vehicle specifying information storing means for storing vehicle specifying information used to specify one's own vehicle;
• vehicle specifying information acquiring means for acquiring said vehicle specifying information from said vehicle specifying information storing means;
• loadage measuring means for measuring loadage of the material good carried on one's own vehicle on the basis of a load detected by a load sensor attached to a predetermined position of one's own vehicle;
• transmitting means mounted on said carrier vehicle, for transmitting said position information, time information, warning time information, vehicle specifying information and loadage to said business place through a predetermined communication network including a wireless line.

A communication terminal device attached to a tank installed on a side of a predetermined user for providing predetermined information on said tank to a business place to which a tank lorry vehicle carries and supplies liquefied gas to the user belongs, comprising:

• tank position information acquiring means for acquiring tank position information of the user's own tank on the basis of a GPS signal in response to remaining level warning information indicative of shortage of the liquefied gas in said tank;
• warning time information acquiring means for acquiring warning time information which is a time when said remaining level warning information;
• tank specifying information storing means for storing tank specifying information which specifies the user's own tank;
• tank specifying information acquiring means attached to said tank, for acquiring said tank specifying information from said tank specifying information storing means;
• tank-side transmitting means for transmitting said tank position information, warning time information, tank specifying information and remaining level warning information to said business place through a predetermined communication network including a wireless line.

A system for assisting running management of a plurality of carrier vehicles which carry predetermined material goods to a predetermined destination,

• position information acquiring means mounted on said carrier vehicle, for acquiring one's own vehicle on the basis of a GPS signal;
• time information acquiring means mounted on said carrier vehicle, for acquiring time information corresponding to said position information;
• vehicle specifying information storing means mounted on said carrier vehicle, for storing vehicle specifying information used to specify one's own vehicle;
• vehicle specifying information acquiring means mounted on said carrier vehicle, for acquiring the vehicle specifying information from said vehicle specifying storing means;
• loadage measuring means for measuring loadage of the material goods loaded on the carrier vehicle on the basis of load detected by a load sensor attached to a predetermined position of said carrier vehicle;
• transmitting means mounted on said carrier vehicle, for transmitting said position information, time information, vehicle specifying information and loadage to a business place through a communication network inclusive of a wireless line;
• running information collecting/recording means mounted on said carrier vehicle, for collecting running information of one's own vehicle whose recording is at least legally compelled and for recording the running information in correlation with said loadage on a portable recording medium;
• receiving means installed on said business place to which the carrier vehicle belongs, for receiving said position information, time information, vehicle specifying information and loadage through said communication network;
• outputting means installed on said business place, for outputting said position information, time information, vehicle specifying information and loadage;
• running information reading means installed on said business place, for reading said running information and loadage from said portable recording medium;
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• report issuing means for creating/issuing a report correlated with said running information and said loadage.