Benefits of A GPS Fleet System
Company Benefits
- Higher customer retention: Detailed tracking reports can provide
information on the length and time of service stops and deliveries
leading to higher customer satisfaction and retention.
- Customer dispute resolution: Irrefutable data provides all
the information required to assess the company's service performance.
- Improved customer relations: Customers can be given proof that
the company's service was delivered as promised.
- Immediate cost savings: Get immediate reductions in fuel and
maintenance costs by controlling speed and the activities of drivers.
Unproductive use of the vehicle as well as abuse is substantially
reduced.
- More sales: Increase the number of sales calls. Increased productivity
leads to more sales. Service more customers with the same number
of vehicles.
- Lower overtime costs: More efficient utilization of vehicles
results in reduction of payroll and overtime.
- Training: Easy identification of vehicles not being operated
efficiently. This information can be used on training to improve
efficiency and productivity.
- Efficiency: Accurate information providing the facts. With
the facts available, appropriate action plans can be implemented
to improve business efficiency.
- Administrative: Tracking reports can be used as an accurate
record for time sheets and customer logs ? no more uncertainties
in this regard.
- Insurance: By reducing excessive speeds and travel in unauthorized
areas accidents and the risk of vehicle theft are reduced. With
reduced claims, your insurance premiums are reduced.
- Maintenance: Reduced your fleet maintenance costs because total
fleet mileage is reduced and driving behavior is improved.
- Peace of mind: Knowing where you vehicles have been when they
were out-of-sight, 24 hours a day, seven days a week increases
your confidence that the vehicles are being used responsibly and
representing your company in the best possible way.
Employee Benefits
- Protection against false customer claims: Irrefutable data that
shows when and where each vehicle has traveled and stopped. This
protects the employee against false accusations of late deliveries
or arrival to scheduled stops.
- Hands-free logbook: No need for drivers to record their mileage
and customer call logs, saving time and enabling drivers to focus
on delivering outstanding service.
- After-hours vehicle usage: Ability to allow employees to take
vehicles home without fear of after hours usage can result in
more efficient utilization of vehicles. Employees can be authorized
to use vehicles for short trips without fear that they are driving
hundreds of miles.
- Increased bonuses: Increased saving can translate to better
employee bonuses.
- New incentives: New driver incentive plans based on productivity
can now be introduced.
- Increased driver safety: The incidence and severity of accidents
and driver fatalities increases disproportionately with speed.
Encouraging driving within speed limits improves road safety.
Equipment Owner Benefits
- Monitor equipment hours: Track how many hours the equipment
is being used.
- Increase rentals and leases: Rent and lease to customers who
you previously were not wanting to rent or lease to because of
poor credit or being unable to trust the customer with your equipment.
- Increase profit and revenue: Increased rentals and leases and
reduced downtime and maintenance equals bottom line profits!
- Verify equipment utilization: You have a need for a piece of
equipment at one job site, but the equipment is currently being
used at another job site. Or is it? Looking at your GPS report
will let you know if the equipment is being utilized or if it
is idle.
- Decrease maintenance costs and downtime: Equipment is at a
job site for a longer than expected time. Employees are unaware
that it has come time for the scheduled maintenance. The equipment
breaks down because it was not properly maintained and now it
is not available for use.
- Automate equipment maintenance: Alerts are sent to management
when preset equipment hour thresholds are met.
- Know where your equipment goes: Once your equipment is rented,
see where it is used.
- Disable starter: Equipment rental agreement has expired but
you are not ready to pick up the equipment. Stop unauthorized
use of equipment remotely from your computer by disabling the
starter.
- Recover lost, stolen or abandoned equipment: With GPS installed
in your equipment, know where your equipment is and where it goes.
Increase employee productivity and profits
- Increase revenue and bottom line profit
- Reduce overtime
- Eliminate moonlighting and side jobs
- Reduce dangerous driving habits such as speeding
- Prevent unauthorized after hours use
- Control fuel spending
- Stop asset and product theft
- Reduce payroll costs
- Reduce customer complaints
- Prevent billing errors
- Correct excessive waiting times or excessive time spent at
the office
- Reduce miles driven
- Improve routing efficiency
- Increase employee productivity
- Reduce insurance premiums
- Monitor equipment utilization
- Decrease maintenance costs
Increase business security measures:
- Track missing vehicles, boats, trucks, construction equipment,
and people.
- Track valuable cargo and equipment
- Confirm deliveries real time
- Reduce the potential for product diversion
- Reduce employee theft of time
- Reduce speeding tendencies in drivers
- Increase driver safety, reducing potential for accidents and
reducing insurance premium
- Recover stolen, lost or abandoned equipment
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