- Increase productivity
- Contain fuel costs
- Reduce labor costs
- Improve fleet safety and security
- Enhance customer service
- Minimize operating expenses
- Go green
- Reduce unauthorized vehicle use
Reduce Fuel Costs with Fleet Tracking
Fuel is a necessity for your small or medium businesses. When gas prices rise unexpectedly, you are stuck with having to pay top dollar for fuel.
Fleet tracking can identify where in your fleet there is room for improvement. Once you know where fuel is slipping through the cracks, you can take steps to ensure you are getting the most out of your fuel spend.
Fleet tracking can help you reduce your fuel costs in several ways:
- Reduce unnecessary idling
- Cease unauthorized use
- Improve routing and dispatching
Fleetmatics can help your company spend less on fuel with automatic alerts. Be alerted when your vehicles idle over your set threshold of time, when they are started up outside of work hours, or when they leave a certain area.
Eliminate unauthorized use
Your fleet vehicles are critical to your business and when they go home with your drivers, you’d like to know they’re not being misused. But how can you be certain your drivers aren’t using them for side jobs or weekend getaways? Even if your drivers are allowed some private use of your vehicles, are you sure they’re not abusing the privilege?
With Fleetmatics fleet tracking, you get all the information you need to eliminate unauthorized vehicle use. Imagine being able to:
- Instantly flag movement of your vehicles during non-working hours
- Easily detect and confirm that planned stops were made
- View and replay any journey made by your vehicles
- Confirm that only your employees are driving your vehicles
Reduce fleet labor costs
Running your business takes enough of your focus. You don’t want to spend precious time and energy validating time sheet entries and unraveling payroll issues.
With Fleetmatics fleet tracking, you can eliminate false time sheet claims and high overtime costs – and spend less time doing paperwork.
Our Hours Worked Report provides you with all the information you need to reduce fleet labor costs. You’ll see:
- Actual hours a vehicle is in operation
- Daily actual start and finish times
- Hours worked Days worked
- Average daily hours and weekly totals
Reduce fleet operating expenses
To get the most out of your business – and keep costs in check – you need to make sure your drivers and entire fleet are operating as efficiently as possible.
With our GPS tracking system, you can boost productivity across the board while reducing a whole host of operating costs:
- Reduce vehicle breakdowns by staying on top of vehicle repair and maintenance
- Trim unnecessary fuel costs
- Cut excessive overtime pay
- Decrease wear and tear on trucks by increasing route efficiency
- Avoid adding staff as business grows by making your team more efficient
- Potentially lower insurance costs
Increase fleet security and safety
It’s easier said than done to keep track of your two most important business assets: your people and your vehicles. With the FleetMatics solution, you’ll know how your drivers are performing and where your trucks are – at all times and with ease.
Gain Peace of Mind
With fleet tracking, you can monitor your drivers' speed and your vehicles’ locations. We can even install panic buttons for emergency situations. You’ll have a clear picture into your entire fleet, making it possible to:
- Curb unsafe driving habits before they lead to more serious issues
- Quickly recover stolen fleet vehicles
- Reduce unauthorized fleet vehicle use
- Reduce speeding to lower the risk of accidents
- Respond quickly to emergencies by knowing the precise location of field technicians
Make your Fleet More Productive
Fleetmatics fleet tracking can increase productivity for your small business. As a fleet manager or business owner, you don’t have enough hours in the day to get everything done. Let fleet tracking help make your job easier and more productive.
With fleet tracking:
- Always know where your vehicles are, no calling around to drivers
- Add more jobs due to improved dispatching
- Reduce human error with automated time sheets
- Get reports emailed daily or weekly automatically
Improve customer service
A GPS tracking system helps you respond to customer needs faster and with greater accuracy. Improve dispatching, increase customer satisfaction and save valuable company time. Improve your response to customer needs in two ways: by using vehicle tracking to improve dispatching and by ensuring employees complete their jobs in a timely manner.
- Get to your customers faster and respond quickly to customer emergencies
- Beat your competition to prospects
- Provide historical proof of service
- Provide more accurate delivery estimates
- Make service calls more efficient
- Allow your customers to track your vehicles from your website
Go green
You’re likely feeling the pressure to reduce your carbon footprint and adopt “green” business practices. But you may think it’s too much for your company to tackle and not worth the effort. The fact is, going green helps the earth and your business.
We make this possible by giving you insight into and control over how your vehicles are dispatched, driven, and maintained. With the tools FleetMatics provides, you can easily reduce your carbon footprint by:
- Optimizing routing and dispatching for more efficient fuel consumption
- Ensuring your vehicles are operating efficiently through fleet maintenance reports and alerts
- Hindering speeding and other fuel wasting behaviors
- Reducing miles driven by sending the closest vehicle to customers
Source:http://www.fleetmatics.com/what-is-gps-fleet-tracking
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