How Refrigerator Services Companies Can Benefit from GPS Fleet Tracking
30 Nov 2015There’s a lot riding on the services of a refrigeration service and repair business. Food safety is a big concern for restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more. When the unit goes out it could be devastating, financially, for the facilities, in question. That’s why it’s so important for companies that offer these services to have GPS fleet tracking. GPS tracking provides the following benefits, and many more.
Timely Estimates for Response Times when Refrigeration Units Fail
GPS fleet tracking allows dispatch to know the locations of all refrigerator services vehicles at all times. This means that they can accurately pinpoint the closest available vehicle in order to respond to the crisis in as timely a manner as possible. This allows the facility to make arrangements to avoid food spoilage, if possible, and reroute or defer deliveries of new foods that will need to be kept cold in order to avoid further waste.
Verification of Service Calls
Because GPS fleet tracking services allow refrigeration services businesses to identify and document the location of vehicles at all times, you can easily verify the time of arrival and departure of your fleet vehicles in case there are questions or discrepancies about the service call or the duration of the service call when billing takes place.
The flip side of this ability to back up employee claims and protect the good name of your business is that you can also monitor driver locations to ensure that drivers are where they are meant to be at any given time. This keeps drivers on the right path and cuts down on wasted labor and fuel.
Manage Paperwork More Efficiently
Paperwork may have been the bane of your existence as an organization before, but with GPS fleet tracking, paperwork becomes a breeze. It’s easy to integrate GPS tracking with iPad software in order to create a full suite of papers that only require a few presses of a button to generate. Things like fuel reports, driver’s logs, liability waivers, expense reports, and more can be generated effortlessly and in a matter of seconds thanks to fleet tracking services that do the work for you.
Frees Up Dispatch Time
Dispatch is no longer devoted to spending time on the phone with antsy customers wondering how much longer it will be before your technicians arrive to repair their refrigeration units. Now that time can be put to more profitable measures for your business, such as training new drivers, acquiring new vehicles, and expanding your service capabilities.
You begin by offering more accurate windows for service technicians to arrive and then offer customers the ability to track the progress of the service vehicles themselves so that they know when to expect your technicians.
The truth is that when you combine these benefits with the fuel and time saving benefits GPS fleet tracking offers refrigeration services businesses, the real questions is why aren’t you using it yet? These benefits don’t even include the goodwill of happy customers or the satisfaction of improved efficiency and response times. Of course the only way to understand the benefits is to see them for yourself.
If you own or manage a refrigeration services company, give us a call here at LiveViewGPS at 1-888-502-3636 to see how fleet GPS tracking can benefit your business.
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