It can be a challenge for your fleet drivers to drive around during the winter season. The icy roads and blowing snow can make driving conditions harsh. Even experienced and careful drivers can find it difficult.

Companies that have to manage a fleet of vehicles often face more challenges during the winter time which can have an effect on their bottom line. The good news is there is GPS fleet tracking which can help companies to handle obstacles put in their way due to bad weather driving conditions.

By installing GPS tracking into your fleet vehicles, you are provided with real-time information, such as where drivers are going and in what direction. Managers are able to see their fleet’s live position, which is really important if one of their vehicles should run off the road in a secluded area. They can easily track the vehicle and dispatch emergency rescue or a tow truck to the area.

If an Accident Does Happen

Obviously, no fleet manager wants to deal with an accident, but if you do have a fleet driver get into an accident, you can be alerted with an instant notification to your mobile device or computer letting you know that something has happened. You will also receive all recorded data from the accident in the notification which will educate you and allow you to make a quick decision on what to do and what you will need. Read the rest of this entry »

Delivering Christmas trees and wreaths is different from other businesses that make consistent deliveries day in and out. Over time, primarily non-seasonal businesses work out the most efficient, and cost-effective routes. But routes that only operate seasonally often require assistance in order to work out the best possible routes. That’s where GPS fleet tracking services can help.

These are just a few ways that GPS fleet tracking services can help your Christmas tree and Wreath deliveries.

Eliminate Wasted Mileage

While most businesses understand the ability GPS tracking technology has to enable more cost-effective delivery of items, many have yet to understand the benefit of telematics for improving the speed of delivery. Think of it as dispatch software that allows you to create the most efficient delivery routes available to you.

The benefits of this are numerous. Not only are you able to eliminate unnecessary mileage and time between deliveries, which saves on fuel costs, but you are also able to conserve man hours, which cuts the labor costs for your business. When combined, these two factors result in increased profitability for your wreath and christmas tree delivery business, which is very seasonal. Read the rest of this entry »

As the holiday season approaches, many retailers will be faced with bigger concerns than holiday sales and the rush of people. They will now have to worry about employee theft, which, according to a new report, is a bigger part of retail loss in the United States than shoplifting.

The Global Retail Theft Barometer is an extensive report on shrink (loss of inventory) cost. It uses statistical research based on the loss of inventory to help retailers measure how they perform against averages for specific vertical markets, merchandise and regional geographies.

Shrink which is made up of supplier and employee fraud, administrative errors and shoplifting, increased in America from 1.28 percent of sales between 2013 and 2014 to 1.97 percent in 2014 through 2015.

These statistics were determined based off common retail respondents’ responses both years to Global Retail Theft Barometer surveys. Shrink was up from their previous .94 percent of the past year average of surveyed common retailers to 1.42 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

To find the best options to save Tanzania elephants, a special program was launched by the Tanzania National Parks. This program monitors the movements of elephants in Ruaha National Park and is supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Working together with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the UNDP is helping to fund this program in order to support elephant monitoring in Rungwa Game Reserve and Ruaha National Park. This monitoring is being done through the use of a satellite system.

Mr. Allan Kijazi, Director General of Tanzania National Parks, said the main objective of monitoring the movements of elephants through satellite is to gather up information on the elephants seasonal movements in the Great Ruaha landscape.

In order to monitor the elephants’ activity patterns and regional and local movements, the World Elephant Centre was contracted by the UNDP to tag 30 elephants with GPS tracking collar units.

Each unit will come with a mortality sensor built right in to inform researchers if a fitted elephant is killed. The 30 GPS units will be spread evenly around core areas, game reserves, and wildlife management areas around the Ruaha ecosystem. Read the rest of this entry »

There’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.

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