Fleet Management in the Mobile Age

27 May 2015

The electronic age is changing the way businesses manage fleets in modern times – for the better. Today’s fleet management options help businesses operate smarter, not harder. These are just a few tools you can use in your business to keep your fleet rolling day after day after day.

Electronic Maintenance Scheduling

It’s easier than ever to schedule routine maintenance for fleet vehicles as they approach certain mileage or drive time milestones. Proper vehicle maintenance not only helps vehicles operate more efficiently while on the road, but it keeps them in the road even longer with fewer breakdowns, accidents, and high-dollar repair bills.

Think of it as preventative medicine for your fleet vehicles and make the move to electronic maintenance scheduling for oil, transmission and brake fluid changes, vehicle inspections, and more.

GPS Tracking and Telematics

Few technological advances have the transformative impact on fleet management as the addition of a modern GPS fleet tracking and management system. These systems help you plan more efficient routes for all fleet vehicles, keep track of vehicle location, deter theft, and keep employees on their toes when on the company dime.

GPS tracking also adds a dimension of safety and security for drivers on the road at all hours as it is easy to track exact locations when accidents or breakdowns occur thanks to the real time tracking aspect many GPS systems offer.

Telematics allows for the transmission of more than simple location data, but also pertinent data about where the vehicle is, has been, and how fast it arrived at Point B from Point A. All this along with revealing information about speeds traveled, driver behavior, and how long driver pit stops lasted.

Drivers and dispatchers can even communicate on the go via two-way communication built in to many GPS fleet tracking systems. And no one ever needs to be lost again as GPS provides turn by turn directions on even today’s trickiest roadways.

Online Glove Boxes

These nifty apps allow drivers to keep a wide range of important information in one electronic location. This can include a wide range of important documents including:

  • Driving Records
  • Insurance Information
  • Driver Logs
  • Service Records and Receipts
  • Vehicle Registration Information
  • Inventory Lists
  • Permits (for oversized or wide loads)

Essentially any information drivers may need if pulled over or inspected can be kept in an online glove box for ready access when needed. Paper documents are easy to lose, but virtual documents make the entire process simpler.

The mobile age puts the power of the world’s strongest computers of yesteryear in driver’s pockets every day. These are just a few ways to put that technology to work for your fleet management needs.


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