System and method for tracking activity of a plurality of machines

A system for managing data from a worksite comprising:

• a back office telematics system, including processing circuitry, to automatically characterize work segments of work cycles at the worksite;
• a smart haul truck at the worksite to gather first operating data from a plurality of sensors of the smart haul truck and send, via first communication circuitry of the smart haul truck, the gathered first operating data to the back office telematics system via a wireless communication network;
• and
• a plurality of non-smart haul trucks at the worksite to send second operating data back to the back office telematics system,
• wherein the first operating data of the smart haul truck represents a work segment of a work cycle of the smart haul truck within the worksite,
• wherein the second operating data from the non-smart haul trucks includes only location information associated with the non-smart haul trucks within the worksite, and
• wherein the back office telematics system automatically characterizes work segments of each of the non-smart haul trucks by
• characterizing, using the first operating data, the work segment of the smart haul truck based on the first operating data, and
• associating the characterized work segment of the smart haul truck to a work segment of the non-smart haul truck based on the second operating data from the non-smart haul truck that includes only the location information associated with the non-smart haul truck.