Vehicle tracking enables you to manage and report on many areas of your fleet vehicle operation to ensure reliable, cost effective transport fleet management. A good vehicle tracking system will become the backbone to your mobile business, allowing you to make changes to the way that vehicles on the road are managed and driven. The cost savings resulting from the installation of a vehicle tracking system to your fleet are considerable both from the point of view of fuel usage and customer satisfaction.

An effective vehicle tracking system needs to have well written software that will efficiently provide valuable information about your vehicle fleet. The vehicle tracking system needs to report in real time and be able to process customisable reports on the fleet to enable you to make informed decisions about your fleet management strategy.

What a Good Vehicle Fleet Manager Needs to Know

A good fleet manager needs to know when and for how long a vehicle is standing idle, stationary with its engine running and burning fuel without going anywhere. How long your drivers spend at their loading and unloading stops to see where time savings can be made.

A vehicle tracking system can also monitor and identify the driving style of your drivers and so identify training needs and so help prevent road traffic accidents, or incidents of complaints against driver for their poor driver behavior and attitude. Employee moral can be boosted, because as well as using a vehicle tracking system to identify poor driving, you can also use it to identify good driving and therefore reward those who show good working practice.

This will help increase safety for both your drivers and the public, as well as help to maintain the vehicles in your fleet so they are always on the road doing the work that you bought them for and not being repaired in the workshop.

Keeping Your Vehicle Fleet Healthy With Regular Maintenance

Monitoring the maintenance schedules for your vehicles to ensure that regular checks are made and that service intervals are not missed is another function that a vehicle tracking system can perform. This is another way in which maintenance and management costs on your vehicles can be reduced.

Rising petrol and diesel fuel prices can hit businesses where it hurts most and with ever increasing fuel prices, fleet managers need to look for the best ways to save on fuel to get more miles out of every gallon. Whether you run one van or one thousand vans, you can make sure that you are able to best plan each vehicle’s route, monitor unauthorised vehicle usage and identify inefficient driving patterns to reduce fuel usage.

Who Wants To Be On a Corporate Manslaughter Charge

Did you know that since last year, your company can be tried in a court of law for Corporate Manslaughter should one of your vehicles be involved in a fatal accident? The responsibility is yours to ensure that vehicles are fit to drive and that your staff are properly risk assessed, and receive the appropriate driver training. Make sure that your tracking system allows you to monitor the condition of your vehicles and the speeds at which your drivers are travelling.

The predicted credit crunch means that as customers reduce their spending, markets will experience greater competition. Ensure you gain the competitive edge by running the greenest fleet possible. Make your company greener by using efficient vehicle tracking. Through locating the closest person to the job, identifying unauthorised journeys and wasteful driving habits you will be able to reduce both, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

Making Reductions in Company Taxation Rates

Benefits in Kind taxation can dramatically increase the amount of tax a company is liable to pay. These costs can be avoided if an employer is able to prove that his fleet is used for business purposes only. Vehicle tracking allows you to monitor fleet mileage and also out of hours usage. Having access to these reports means that you can prove to the taxman that your vehicles have not left their agreed areas.

An efficient Vehicle Tracking System is integral to any business, whether you run one van or one thousand. Make sure that you are able to best plan each vehicle’s route, monitor unauthorised vehicle usage and identify inefficient driving patterns to reduce fuel usage.

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Saturday, 29-Jan-2011

Vehicle Tracking is an Ideal Tool For The Commercial Vehicle Fleet Operator