7 Reasons to Consider GPS Fleet Tracking for 2015
2 Feb 2015Hopefully 2015 is off to a great start for your business. If you’re like many businesses, you’re using this time to assess the profits and losses of 2014 while seeking new ways to increase profitability while minimizing losses in the coming year.
Have you considered GPS fleet tracking for your 2015 fleet management needs? These are just a few reasons why you should!
1) Ease the Fleet Management Process
Managing a fleet of vehicles is no easy task without the assistance of GPS tracking. Whether you’re tracking delivery services, cab companies, limousines, or long-distance tractor trailers, fleet managers have a lot of moving parts to manage and monitor. Fleet tracking GPS takes a once-difficult process involving complex mathematical calculations and reduces it to a few strokes on the keyboard – or the use of a mobile app.
2) Improve Delivery Estimates
It’s not good for customer satisfaction to force customers to wait around all day for deliveries. GPS tracking allows businesses the opportunity to provide more accurate location-based estimates for deliveries or service arrivals. This makes for happy customers who are able to do so much more with their days than wait for a cab to show up or floral delivery to arrive (especially men eager to get out of the proverbial dog house).
3) Reduce Unauthorized Use of Company Vehicles
This is a big money pit that most companies aren’t even fully aware of until they see how often business vehicles are used, during and after hours, to take care of personal business for employees. Twenty minutes here and there throughout the day, not to mention the extra fuel, can cost your business plenty when multiplied by your total number of drivers.
Then there are the employees who use company vehicles to moonlight, which could present liability and insurance issues for your business that go well beyond what you’re covered for. For some businesses, this alone makes GPS tracking well worth the investment.
4) Increase Driver Accountability
It’s not just about speeding and safe driving, though those are certainly big issues, it’s also about being where you’re supposed to be at appointed hours and keeping the billing process clean and straightforward.
5) Help the Planet
We all want to do our part to save the planet. While fleet operations must use fossil fuels and this leads to emissions, cutting back on these things with more efficient routing does help the planet. The more fleet operations like school busses, food distribution services, and over-the-road freight delivery that get on board, the bigger the benefits to the planet become.
6) Cut Costs
This is where most people are a little stunned. It’s not just fuel costs that get cut when you make the switch to a fleet GPS tracking system (and those can be substantial). It’s also all of the following that are reduced too:
- Labor costs
- Insurance expenses
- Vehicle repair bills
- Traffic tickets
- And more!
7) Verify Billing
Whenever disputes arise, GPS tracking provides solid evidence of when drivers arrived and departed specific addresses.
These are just seven reasons to consider investing in GPS fleet tracking for your business in the year to come. In light of all the supporting evidence though, the only question remaining is this: What are you waiting for?
Call us at 1-888-502-3636 to implement GPS fleet tracking in your business in 2015.
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