How Mobile GPS Can Help You Protect Your Drivers And The Bottom Line

As a fleet manager you have probably experienced an afternoon or evening when you were asking, “Truck 27, Where Are You?” You’ll never ask that question again when your trucks are equipped with mobile GPS. This simple device, installed in just seconds, allows a fleet manager to know the exact location, speed, and status of every truck you have on the road (and the ones in the garage).

Not only can you track the location of each vehicle, you can also analyze the efficiency of the routes the drivers choose to reach each destination with a mobile GPS system. You can then advise drivers, with the help of your mobile GPS system, about more fuel-efficient, more direct or faster routes. You can even use the system to alert drivers to traffic congestion ahead and provide directions for a detour that will save time. The system will also monitor bad or unsafe driving habits so your drivers can self-correct before you need to become involved.

Have you wondered why Truck 36 seems to take longer to reach local destinations than other trucks and drivers? With mobile GPS in the truck, you can prove that the drivers are taking the longest possible route to each destination and stopping at home for a very long lunch.

Or perhaps you think several of the trucks are using too much fuel for the miles they are putting on the odometer. Mobile GPS in the truck would tell you that they are meeting in the parking lot of an empty warehouse for card games every afternoon, leaving the trucks idling so nobody will know.

Mobile GPS systems help fleet managers achieve outstanding performance in their jobs because it helps them monitor what is happening, provide useful tools to help drivers improve driving habits, fuel economy, and personal productivity. As drivers become more productive you can expect customer satisfaction to increase. When that happens, your department will come to the attention of the top brass for the right reasons.

Instead of walking the garage at the end of each driver’s run to note mileage and make other checks of the vehicle, you can automate the data gathering with a mobile GPS system. Then you can use that time to analyze the information and still get home in time for supper. As you analyze the information the mobile GPS system will gather about your vehicles and your drivers you will be able to reduce costs, improve driving safety and fuel-efficient driving habits, improve productivity, improve customer satisfaction, maintain vehicles more efficiently, extend the life of vehicles, and protect your drivers and your vehicles from theft and other dangers.

A mobile GPS system will not only provide accurate positioning information in real time. It will also gather and store historical data about each driver and each vehicle, and some systems will also gather information about your mechanics, as well. Think about how much time you spend inputting repair and maintenance information on each vehicle in the fleet. Then add to that the time it takes to compile complete information on each driver at the end of the year. What if you had mobile GPS in the vehicles and all of those reports just needed to be printed or emailed? Imagine how much more of your time could actually be devoted to managing the fleet with attention to safety, efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, reducing carbon emissions and reporting this information, and actually managing each vehicle and individual in the fleet or on your staff for maximum performance. Not only would you achieve better results, you’d probably be having a lot more fun doing your job!

Mobile GPS in every vehicle in your fleet will make your job easier and it will make you more successful. You will be able to assist and protect your drivers, achieve maximum efficiencies and productivity, and make both your boss and your customers very happy. Then, as the frosting on the cake, you will be able to do the fun part of your job instead of so much paperwork, and get it all done faster. When you add it all up, mobile GPS makes perfect sense.

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