Fleet Tracking The Benefits

Fleet Tracking Systems

Fleet tracking systems can add many benefits to a business in controlling and monitoring their fleets whilst they are out and about on the roads. The majority of fleet managers who currently use tracking systems see big changes in the productivity of a fleet and larger cost savings also. One main saving it provides is lower fuel costs due to a system's ability to monitor excessive idling, speeding and personal vehicle use by employees when out on a job. The fuel savings are compounded by the ability of the system to aid in improved routing for the fleet from one main centralized location. This can really help benefit a company in many ways.

Improved Productivity and Reduced Labour Costs
In general companies that employ the use of a GPS fleet tracking system see an improvement in productivity equivalent to a twenty five percent increase. This is due to the fact that fleet monitoring allows for improved workday schedules and planning meaning more work jobs can be completed in the same time frame. A reduction in labour costs can be found as the system eradicates employee clocking in and out abuse with their time cards, as well as offering the fleet managers better control over employees when they are out on the roads and away from the central hub of the business.

Better Customer Service and Enhanced Safety
Improved customer service will benefit every business but the addition of a GPS fleet tracking system to a fleet manager's set of tools will enable much more accurate details of where exactly specific vehicles are when a customer asks – providing much better customer service. The exact same systems also offer an enhanced safety element as it can monitor safe and unsafe driving practices from employees and highlight it allowing for a manager to address it formally. It also adds extra security features as it allows fleet managers to reduce losses due to theft when on the road as well as controlling out of hours and side job usage of the fleet vehicles. The final string to the bow of a fleet tracking system is the ability for it to monitor the vehicles in the fleet and flag up which ones need maintenance or are having problems when on the road, thus reducing overall downtime of the fleet and improving full fleet productivity at the same time all in one main centralized system.
 

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