How Lawn Care Companies Can Benefit from Fleet GPS Tracking

8 Apr 2015

Spring has arrived, and lawn care is serious business and you need to keep your crews on task and on target. GPS fleet tracking software is one way to accomplish this important goal and it can help improve your profitability in the process.

Here’s what you need to know about GPS tracking for all the lawn services you offer and why you need it for your lawn care company.

Schedule Routes More Efficiently

No matter how well you think you know the area, there’s almost always a surprise or two when it comes to routing efficiently. It’s not always about the number of miles traveled, after all.

When you schedule your drivers more efficiently, it doesn’t matter if you’re running a tree removal service or a grass cutting crew, you fit more jobs into a day increasing your profits by leaps and bounds.

Force Greater Employee Accountability

When you use GPS for fleet tracking and routing purposes, you force your employees to follow the prescribed routes. This prevents them from making off-route pit stops and running personal errands on the clock.

It also forces accountability in other areas, such as keeping speeds in check, avoiding aggressive driving activities, and prohibiting after-hour use of company vehicles for moonlighting or personal purposes.

The flip side of this is that you’ll have your employees’ backs if claims are made against them that they weren’t where they said they were at a particular time. You’ll be able to show clients, with absolute certainty, that your employees were in fact on the job – and how long they were there.

Determine Profitability of Questionable Jobs

When it comes to lawn care, all jobs are not created equal. Some jobs simply require more time and labor than your hourly rates allow. GPS tracking helps you eliminate the typical areas where time slips away to identify the jobs that are failing to profit your business despite your best efforts to make them work for you and your clients so you can make the necessary adjustments or the decision to let the job go.

Keep Labor Costs in Check

This goes hand in hand, to some degree, with more efficient routing. When you’re able to schedule your routes so efficiently, you’re not only eliminating larger gas bills, but you’re also reducing the amount of driving time that’s wasted in an ordinary day.

The real beauty, though, is that you’re not only able to get more labor per hour for your employees, but you’re also able to work more profit into the equation by adding additional jobs to your daily routes.

Improve Likelihood of Recovering Stolen Vehicles

Once upon a time, the idea of recovering stolen vehicles was about as likely as a favorite fairy tale character walking off the page and into your living room. Those numbers are greatly improved for vehicles equipped with GPS tracking equipment. Not only can you be immediately notified anytime the vehicle isn’t where it’s supposed to be, but you can also give the GPS information to law enforcement officers and they can track the location of your vehicle in real time.

No matter what kind of lawn care service you operate, you owe it to your business and your bottom line to explore the difference GPS tracking can make for both.

Do you own a lawn care company? If so, contact us at LiveView GPS to discuss how your business can benefit from GPS fleet tracking.


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