Work Smarter With GPS Fleet Management
Managing any fleet of vehicles is a complex and stressful job. The larger the fleet, the more valuable the cargo, or the more critical the fleet to business operations, the more stressful the management task will be. If you manage a fleet of vehicles of any size you need to know that GPS fleet management makes your life easier.
Most fleet managers know GPS fleet management equipment allows you to track or locate every vehicle at any time. What many of those fleet managers do not know is that the same equipment builds and stores a complete history of where, when and how every vehicle has ever traveled any route since you installed the equipment. The history gives you the data you need to correct problems and maximize efficiencies.
You probably know that GPS fleet management equipment allows you to watch your computer screen and see movements of your vehicles in “real time” in order to monitor everything that is happening with your fleet. You might not know that GPS fleet management equipment also allows you to receive alerts or historical reports when drivers are speeding, idling, stopped, traveling, moving outside a predefined area or driving unsafely in a number of other ways. You can also track driving habits that negatively affect fuel efficiency or the useful life of the vehicle.
If you want to receive alerts for emerging mechanical problems, you can choose a GPS fleet management system that includes maintenance scheduling systems. You can simplify the task of monitoring the maintenance schedules of all those vehicles manually and prevent costly breakdowns by fixing problems before they cripple the vehicle.
You can achieve phenomenal fuel savings with a GPS fleet management system. Tuning your engines, choosing your routes, and rewarding driving habits that reduce fuel consumption will extend the life of the vehicles, significantly reduce fuel costs, and reduce carbon emissions, thereby helping to protect the environment.
Many GPS fleet management systems also allow you to disable your vehicles to prevent theft, as well as tracking with minute-by-minute pinpointing if a vehicle should be stolen. This capability alone will qualify your fleet for a discount on the insurance rates charged by most leading insurance companies.
Many of these capabilities of GPS fleet management systems will also allow you to monitor and coach driver behavior. The reports available for instant download can be used to coach drivers in achieving better response times, more efficient travel routes, greater fuel efficiency, safer driving habits, and more. This is a wonderful contribution to the efforts of many organizations to improve employee productivity. You will have the added opportunity to improve vehicle productivity, extend vehicle life, and operate the vehicles in the fleet in ways that help to protect the environment with the various benefits of GPS fleet management.
If you manage a fleet of trucks that make deliveries to various distributors throughout the country, for example, you might have different drivers or different vehicles traveling the same routes at various times. On a particular week you notice that the mileage for a particular run seems much higher than you remember the mileage when someone else drove the route the previous week. Using your GPS fleet management reports, you discover that the driver assigned to the route this week clocked 250 miles more than the driver who covered the same route the previous week. You also find that the driver was on the road three days longer – and all of the extra time was on the outgoing leg of the trip. By comparing other reports from your GPS fleet management system, you discover that this is consistent whenever the specific driver covers any route. With just a little more study of the reports, you find that this driver makes at least four extra stops on each trip.
You can work smarter with GPS fleet management. These are just some of the things it can help you accomplish:
- maintain a complete history of the travels of every vehicle and the actions of every driver
- monitor driving habits for use in coaching drivers in achieving greater efficiencies and saving fuel, time and costs
- manage maintenance of the fleet with greater ease
- help police find stolen vehicles instantly, and prevent theft
- improve productivity of everyone in your department
- extend the life of your vehicles and improve fuel efficiency.
By installing GPS fleet management devices in all of the vehicles in your fleet you can begin to see cost reductions immediately. On average, companies that install GPS fleet management systems report that they pay for the system and a whole year of monitoring with the savings they achieve in the first 90 days or less. So, what’s stopping you when you can save money for the company and work smarter?
For more information about GPS fleet management, get the white paper “7 Ways Your Company Can Save Thousands of Dollars With GPS Fleet Tracking.” Many companies have boosted their revenue and decreased their costs by implementinga GPS tracking system for their fleet. To calculate the ROI for your company in under 30 seconds, see the Fleet GPS ROI calculator.
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