Commercial Fleets See Cost Savings from Telematics

Commercial fleets are utilizing telematics to increase efficiencies and driver safety and save money. One fleet uses its system as a dispatch tool for service technicians.
By Lauren Fletcher
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Pros and Cons of Using a Fuel Card vs. a Corporate Card for Fleet Fuel Expenses

The days of paper expense reports for employee reimbursement are gone; companies are looking to automate. Fleet managers have a number of choices in providing their drivers with a fuel payment solution. Learn more: http://bit.ly/kUzpoR

Save Gas…Save Money

A number of fuel-saving measures involve using a vehicle efficiently and wisely. By using a GPS tracking device, companies can ensure and enforce efficiency and wisdom of use with their vehicles.  Read more:  http://bit.ly/mQuNC7

Identifying High-Risk Drivers and What to Do About Them

Seven diverse fleets share their strategies for identifying high-risk drivers, as well as the training programs and successful corrective methods used to address issues that arise when employing such drivers.

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Do Fleet Managers Care About Distracted Driving?

Yes.  Fleet managers are tasked with improving productivity and making money.  They’re responsible for driver safety and effeciency.  All of these things are aided by telematics and the use of GPS Fleet Tracking.  What about distracted driving? 

What about the:

Need to prevent employee use of phones while driving to minimize liability? Come again?

Need to enforce compliance with newly established government regulations and legislation? Say what?

Need to stop employees from texting while driving to offset insurance costs?  Huh?

Somthing to think about…http://bit.ly/egTy5o

Lower Insurance Premiums

Will adding a GPS fleet tracking system lower your insurance costs? Certainly. While we haven’t dug through the case studies (but we will), there is mounting evidence that monitoring your fleet will reduce accidents and that will save on premiums. No doubt you’ve also heard the buzz about insurance companies using telematics as a way to monitor risks. Here’s a quick article with some thoughts. http://bit.ly/payd041311.

Great new GPS Hardware for Fleets

Vehiclepath, a San Diego-based leader in Mobile Resource Management (MRM) announces the launch of the VP500 GPS fleet tracking device. The VP500 is designed for fleet managers who require a higher-end GPS tracking device than the VP300 GPS fleet tracking device.

“The VP500 is an exciting addition to our stable of fleet and asset tracking products and offers features not available with the VP300,” said Mark Wells, President of Vehiclepath. “These new features will help fleet managers who have higher requirements than just tracking their fleet. Vehiclepath now has three tiers of fleet tracking and three tiers of offerings of asset tracking units for companies depending on their tracking needs.”

The new VP500 GPS tracking device features include:

Maintenance alerts
Virtual odometer mileage tracking
3 additional inputs (4 total inputs on the VP500)
The ability to track every 15 seconds*
To learn more about Vehiclepath GPS asset tracking or fleet tracking, and try an interactive demo, visit www.vehiclepath.com.

Fleet Tracking Pays Off

Out this week: Fleet managers are now indicating they’ve experienced a tremendous savings with their new GPS-driven tracking systems.

GPS-Enabled Tracking Solutions Cut Fuel Costs by 22%

Leading Firms Almost Two Times as Likely to Leverage Fleet Management and GPS-Tracking Solutions
BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – July 22, 2009) – In an uncertain economy, leading organizations are turning to GPS-enabled Service Workforce and Fleet Management solutions to drive efficiencies into their service organizations so as to maintain customer satisfaction levels, drive resource utilization levels while controlling service-related costs. These firms are actively looking to increase visibility into all service resources via GPS, according to a recent research report titled “Service Workforce and Fleet Management: Driving Utilization with Location Intelligence,” published by the Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS).

“Organizations responding to our research indicate that they currently monitor and track the location of 35% of their workers and 47% of their vehicles,” said Sumair Dutta, senior research analyst, Aberdeen Group. “This is up from averages of 23% for workers and 35% for vehicles in 2008 with indications of further investments in 2010. These results are indicative of the value offered by GPS-enabled tracking, navigation and routing solutions in meeting cost containment and customer management pressures faced by today’s service and manufacturing organizations.”

Research findings in the Service Workforce and Fleet Management report indicate responding firms have seen the following average improvements in key service performance indicators since the adoption of GPS-enabled solutions:

– A 25% reduction in idle times
– A 32% increase in fleet utilization
– A 22% decrease in fuel costs and a 31% drop in daily mileage
– A 23% boost in workforce productivity

Learn more about this study: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Aberdeen-Group-NYSE-HHS-1020560.html

Is GPS Fleet Tracking the Answer to Falling Profits?

GPS technology may be your solution for high fleet costs, low productivity and long work hours.

BOSTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Times are difficult for small businesses. But small businesses with vehicle fleets have it even tougher than most.

Fleet costs continue to rise while business slows. In some cases, drivers don’t do all that they can to be most productive and mitigate costs. And time is always an issue. Two-thirds of small business owners work over 40 hours per week, with one in five working 80 or more hours per week according to a poll conducted by office-supply giant Staples.

Fleet owners also deal with a host of other daily issues that can wear down even the most hardened manager: billing disputes, driver whereabouts unknown, deliveries to the wrong address, drivers getting lost, drivers missing in action… the list goes on.

All of this while trying to handle service issues and run a profitable business. It’s no wonder that many small business owners feel they don’t have the time to get everything done and spend enough quality time with family.

However, the growth in the popularity of GPS tracking systems has heralded a new way for small businesses with vehicle fleets to do business. It’s a complete paradigm shift and early adopters are already realizing the significant cost savings and other benefits of installing GPS tracking in their fleets.

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