Wood floor refinishing businesses have a lot of irons in the fire on any given day. Keeping track of different trucks and crews going to different worksites to refinish floors while ensuring that the right materials and supplies go along with the right vehicles is a huge undertaking in itself. Creating routes that guarantee maximum efficiency promising you a better use of your crews and your time means more money in your pockets.

GPS fleet tracking for wood floor refinishing fleets can help you with that. Below are just a few ways GPS fleet tracking can boost your bottom line.

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Sounds like a tall order for a little bit of computer software to handle. But, the right GPS fleet tracking system handles this tall task beautifully by providing you with accurate appointment windows, offering customers the opportunity to track your progress toward their home in real time, and by eliminating unnecessary downtime due to traffic delays, getting lost, or inefficient routing practices.

Reduce Record Keeping Burdens

Do you even care to guess how much time and energy is expended in your organization each month with random record keeping related to where drivers are going, how long they spend on various projects, mileage, fuel consumption, driver logs, etc.? Without GPS fleet tracking systems, these records must be recorded by hand. This means that your office workers spend a lot of time and energy chasing down drivers in search of receipts, logbooks, invoices, and more.

GPS fleet tracking can be customized to create these records for your wood floor refinishing business automatically – saving you time and money month after month while keeping your records in order for you.

Hold Employees Accountable

Not only can GPS tracking be used to keep up with the location of your employees at all times – to ensure they’re on the jobsites where they are supposed to be, but it can also help to encourage them to stay on task, on route, and under control behind the wheel.

Because fleet tracking systems offer GPS coordinates in real time, you can set up alerts to notify you when drivers deviate from their assigned routes (such as running personal errands on company time), driver aggressively, speed, or operate company vehicles outside of business hours. This helps you keep them accountable to their assigned tasks and for their driving practices in your business vehicles.

All of these things combined add up to huge savings for your business, greater customer’s satisfaction, and reduced burdens when it comes to keeping business records – and these are just the highlights of what GPS flleet tracking can do for your wood floor refinishing business.

Do you own or operate a wood floor refinishing business? If so, contact us here at LiveViewGPS to learn more about the benefits of GPS fleet tracking.  1-888-544-0494

The oceans of the world are constantly moving.

Currents of the ocean flow across our planet and distribute heat and impact our weather patterns. You probably knew this already, but, did you know that this force of nature additionally plays a significant role in how marine life travels around our planet?

According to the Executive Director of Jacksonville University Marine Science Research Institute’s, Dr. Quinton White, it’s only one piece of the entire puzzle.

Researchers are watching where the waves of the oceans are traveling to observe shark migrations.

They have built what they refer to as drifters. A drifter is an oceanographic device that floats on the surface of the ocean so researchers can investigate the currents of the ocean as well as other parameters such as salinity or temperature. Satellite typically tracks modern drifters, often through GPS trackers. Drifters often house sensors for measuring other properties of the ocean like wind, pressure, and ocean color. The information obtained through GPS is transmitted through a satellite link. On average, drifters transmit information for around 1 to 1.5 years.

The drifters for this project are made from wood, bamboo poles, and bundles of twine. These are all materials that are biodegradable material that researchers will deploy in the ocean to measure the movement of the water.

According to the White, they’re going to take the drifters with the OCEARCH vessel off of Long Island and release them when their tagging sharks to track where the ocean’s currents will take them.

Dr. White hopes that by deploying the drifters in New York, they’ll be able to track them across the Atlantic. They’ve already launched them before off Jacksonville, however, the drifters ended up getting caught in the Gulf Stream and traveled way up to Greenland.

White says that part of what they’re looking for is the way in which the sharks are using the currents. Using the shark tracker, there’s fairly good evidence that the sharks ride the currents because they make sense.

One of the things that the OCEARCH team’s, Chris Fischer has done is gather up and provide the team with a great deal of data on the sharks and what they’re doing and where they are. However, there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered.

These are answers that scientists are trying to hopefully get from the drifters enable for them to solve this shark puzzle.

Once researchers deploy the drifters in August, people will be able to track them in almost real time. Each shark will have a GPS tracking device attached to it, therefore NOAA will be able to log their locations on their website.

One of the most difficult things for parents to do today is to give their kids the wings that go along with a set of car keys. For many of today’s teens, learning to drive is an essential rite of passage. For parents, it is terrifying. The CDC reports that every day six teens, between the ages of 16 and 19 are killed by injuries received in auto accidents.

You want to give them their wings, but you want to keep them safe. GPS tracking for teens allows you to give them that taste of freedom while keeping tabs on where they’re going, how safely they’re driving, and even when they are out past curfew.

The question you want to know, though, is whether passive GPS tracking is sufficient or if you need to actively monitor your teen’s driving activity. Either method of tracking GPS offers strengths and weaknesses. Passive GPS tracking is a far more affordable option for many families. When you consider the costs of a new car, additional gasoline being used, and the rising costs of auto insurance for teen drivers, cost can be a major factor. The downside is that you must download the information from the GPS tracking device in order to access it.

Active GPS teen driving tracking allows you the ability to track your teen in real time. This means that you can monitor the exact location of your car at any time of the day or night with this type of GPS tracking. You can even set up alerts to notify you by text message or email if your vehicle operates outside of designated hours, goes past certain geographic boundaries, or is driven at excessive speeds.

Perhaps the biggest benefit of all, when it comes to teen driving tracking with GPS is that you can tell the exact location of your teen if he or she is in trouble and needs help. This includes accidents, breakdowns, an inability to drive due to alcohol impairment (among male drivers between the ages of 15 and 20 who were involved in fatal accidents, 24 percent had consumed alcohol), or a myriad of other potential problems teens may face while driving.

As parents, we want to protect our teens from as much as possible, while giving them some sense of freedom to make their own ways in the world. Tracking their driving with GPS teen tracking allows you some degree of confidence as they begin to stretch their wings and venture away from the nest.