Responsibly Manage Your Fleet of Vehicles With GPS Fleet Tracking

Two issues that are very much on the minds of most people are the economy and the environment. For businesses operating a fleet of vehicles (of any kind), the two are inextricably intertwined. The good news is that installing a new state-of-the-art GPS fleet tracking system in your vehicles will help you increase productivity, reduce costs, improve fuel efficiency and even reduce emissions. In addition, you can improve customer service, increase the life of your vehicles and put a stop to personal use of company vehicles.

At a surprisingly low cost, you can equip every vehicle owned by your company - from company cars to long-haul tractor trailers - with a GPS tracking device. This device enables fleet tracking, which will send and receive signals via satellite. You will then have access to a broad range of vehicle and driver information, as well as the ability to communicate critical information to your vehicles (and drivers) that will increase efficiency and productivity.

Among the results you can achieve with fleet tracking are:

- Decrease paperwork.

- 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.

- Eliminate extra stops.

- Reduce idle time with more direct and efficient routes.

- Ability to redirect the closest vehicle with fleet tracking for urgent needs.

- Eliminate unauthorized employee vehicle use.

- Wipe out fraudulent reporting and charges by employees.

- Help individual drivers improve safety and teach fuel-saving driving practices.

- Protect your drivers from accusations of unsafe driving or false claims by customers.

- Stolen vehicles located instantly with fleet tracking.

- More efficient delivery of products and services.

- Ability to define key performance indicators for drivers and use them for employee recognition and reward.

- Possible reduction in vehicle insurance costs.

The reports generated by the fleet tracking system and those you customize for your own monitoring and reporting needs will enable your managers to compile safety data, expedite payroll and billing information to accounting and HR, track driver history, and create the most efficient and economical routing for all business needs. You will be able to utilize the data from any computer or compatible hand-held device anywhere. Your sales team can generate reports for pricing and scheduling options when closing a sale. Dispatchers can instantly assist drivers with problems.

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?

What would you save in overtime pay if all of your technicians were able to achieve a 23% productivity increase and reduce 23% of overtime pay with fleet tracking? When technicians are more efficient and productive, not only do they finish their work faster, they also enable supervisors, managers and others to eliminate overtime, as well.

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.

Finally, encouraging safer and more efficient driving, using maintenance alerts and schedule monitoring, your vehicles will be serviced on schedule and will run better, while also reducing the need to have repairs made while on the road. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that just by keeping the engines optimally tuned, you can increase fuel efficiency by almost 5%. Fixing mechanical problems immediately can even improve mpg by another forty percent.

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?

For more information about gps vehicle tracking, get the free report "7 Ways Your Company Can Save Thousands of Dollars With GPS Fleet Tracking." Many companies have substantially increased their revenue and decreased their costs by implementing GPS vehicle tracking for their fleet. To calculate the ROI for your company in under 30 seconds, see the fleet tracking ROI calculator.