Scheduling Your Fleet More Efficiently During Summer Vacations
15 Jun 2016Over the holidays and summer vacations, having to function with a skeleton crew is not easy. Although your fleet drivers need to take some time off work, business still needs to get done. Customers want their landscaping in perfect condition or wasp nests removed before they cook out over a holiday weekend.
What they don’t want is for businesses to say they are unable to help due to being understaffed. Knowing this, how can you fill in the gaps when you have fleet drivers that need some time off this summer vacation?
Schedule Jobs Efficiently
Sure you want your fleet drivers to make their deliveries or provide their services in the most effective and quickest way possible. However, when you have to do more with less, it’s important that you focus more on efficiency.
With fleet tracking GPS software, you can find more efficient routes for each job which allows better dispatching of drivers. You can be updated in real time of job progress and let your customers know when they can expect a driver to arrive so they are prepared. All of these actions combined can amount to better efficiency and time savings.
Improve Fleet Operations
GPS tracking helps you improve fleet operations as well as:
- Decrease costs
- Maximize productivity
- Improve customer service
- Increase revenue
You can easily find a single vehicle’s location or your entire fleet. You can instantly see if they are moving, stopped or idling. You can track all their driving activity including their stops, starts and how long they are stopped for. You can optimize routes more efficiently by being able to find an address quickly and dispatch it to the closest vehicle.
Maximize Efficiency
When you have drivers who are not maximizing their efficiency, this affects your entire operation. When your fleet is inefficient, it results in a lack of productivity and affects you financially. Some of this can be within your drivers’ control, while others are not.
Some of the responsibility needs to be placed on your drivers such as compliance with personal and business-use reporting, federal and state laws for inspections and registrations and safety policies as well as preventive and non-preventive maintenance. With all this extra responsibility placed on your drivers, it can take time away from their driving, deliveries and services.
Technology like GPS fleet tracking is your ticket to increase driver productivity and efficiency, especially when you are working with a skeleton crew. Your drivers’ time is maximized with GPS tracking solutions when it comes to reporting, scheduling, maintenance and improving customer service and this benefits your entire fleet operation.
You can always contact a GPS fleet tracking expert at Live View GPS today: 1-888-544-0494.
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