Business owners know the value of their fleet of vehicles to the operation of the company. You expect your managers to use those vehicles responsibly and efficiently. How can they do that without a GPS fleet tracking system? With the proper tools, managers can meet and exceed your expectations in keeping vehicles on the road and containing operating costs. With a fleet tracking system, they can reduce customer complaints, effectively maintain the vehicles, reduce vehicle-related costs, and eliminate unauthorized use of company vehicles.
Whether your fleet consists of company cars for executives and sales force members or of long-haul tractor trailers (or something in between), you can equip each vehicle with a GPS tracking device for as little as $300. Once these devices are connected to a fleet tracking system, you can send and receive information by satellite. This system will give your managers the tool they need to succeed and deliver the savings that will directly and immediately impact your bottom line.
Here are just a few of the outcomes you can achieve with fleet tracking:
- Less time spent on paperwork by drivers, managers, accounting and payroll.
- Reduce billing and payroll errors.
- Ability to identify and direct drivers to the most efficient routes, thus driving less miles and reducing costs for fuel.
- More efficient routing reduces extra stops.
- More efficient routing and driving reduces idling times.
- Ability to redirect the closest vehicle with fleet tracking for urgent needs.
- Tracking eliminates unauthorized use of company vehicles.
- Wipe out fraudulent reporting and charges by employees.
- Ability to improve safe-driving habits and fuel-efficient driving habits.
- Protect your drivers from accusations of unsafe driving or false claims by customers.
- Rapid recovery of stolen vehicles.
- Improve product and service delivery.
- Ability to define key performance indicators for drivers and use them for employee recognition and reward.
- Reduce insurance costs because of GPS fleet tracking.
Fleet tracking will provide a myriad of standard and customized reports on vehicle history, driver history, safety statistics, economies achieved, and payroll and billing information. You can monitor the location of every vehicle in a single screen view or in greater detail. You can view vehicle status from the office or on a hand-held device from anywhere. You can even access statistical information from remote locations to help you answer customer questions or complaints, estimate costs and schedules for new clients or customers, and provide instant assistance to drivers.
A recent study by the Aberdeen Group documented a 23% increase in total number of service calls completed per day per technician in organizations with small fleets when GPS fleet tracking was installed in their vehicles. What would a 23% increase in profitability mean for your company if achieved across your entire fleet?
When a fleet tracking system can stimulate such a significant productivity increase, it also proportionately decreases overtime. When technician overtime is reduced, it also reduces the amount of overtime necessary for others, such as dispatchers, supervisors, garage staff, etc.
With driver alerts, you can also encourage safer driving and more energy efficient driving. Simply keeping the vehicles operation at 60 mph or less with fleet tracking will save money in several ways. Increasing speed, according to the US Department of Energy, from 50 to 60 mph uses 73% more horsepower. At 70 mph, that figure increases to 159%. For each mile per hour above 50, fuel consumption is increased by 1.5%. Using safe driving and fuel economy alerts will save you a huge amount on fuel and maintenance costs across the fleet.
Effective management of service and maintenance schedules for vehicles with a fleet tracking system can also save as much as 4% in fuel efficiency by keeping the engine tuned optimally. Regular service can prevent many problems that would otherwise cause a big engine problem. The ability to anticipate and repair these problems can improve fuel mileage by 35% or more. Proper tire inflation can add to the savings achieved through fuel economy.
Consideration of all the ways GPS fleet tracking can help you achieve operating cost reductions and improve productivity makes it easy to see how fleet tracking takes the guesswork out of business management. Is it time to make fleet tracking part of your management team?
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