Families throughout the U.S. are obsessed with services that deliver fresh ingredients so they can prepare dinner each night. Services exist accommodating a wide range of needs and interests from healthy fresh foods to vegetarian, vegan, paleo, and even smoothies and soups with new companies getting in on the lucrative action all the time. Because the competition is so fierce, it’s important to make your dinner ingredients delivery business stand out from your competition. Offering GPS fleet tracking can help you do just that. These are a few of the benefits you stand to gain.

Provide Outstanding Visibility to Customers

You have two options for this. First, you can give your customers extremely accurate delivery windows so they can be prepared to receive and properly store their food upon arrival. Second, you could choose to allow customers to track their items as the deliveries are made so they know, up to the minute, when to expect their fresh ingredients delivered to them. This creates satisfied customers who are all too happy to use your service again – and quite likely to tell their friends.

Cut Costs

Delivery businesses all have one thing in common – expenses. For some businesses, fuel costs feel like fixed expenses. The truth is, that there are things you can do to conserve fuel and cut other expenses – GPS can help with many of these things, including:

• Labor Costs
• Maintenance and Repair Costs
• Vehicle Replacement Costs
• Insurance Costs

GPS fleet tracking helps you keep all these costs under control by planning more fuel-efficient routes that also serve to take less time – saving on labor, scheduling preventative maintenance automatically, and leading many insurers to offer discounts because GPS tracking increases the likelihood of successful vehicle recoveries in the event of theft.

Accurate Billing and Delivery Verification

Using GPS tracking and scanning the package codes at the time and location of delivery provides verification that your food deliveries were made, where they were made, and at what time they were made. Then if disputes arise, you have GPS data to back up your delivery claims. This creates more accurate billing practices so that the right bills go to the right homes and addresses.

Overall, there are many benefits to consider when incorporating GPS fleet tracking into your dinner ingredients delivery business. When fresh ingredients, fast matter, GPS tracking is the only way to go. Now is the perfect time to take the plunge and get one step ahead of your local competitors.

Do you manage a dinner ingredients fleet? Have you considered GPS fleet tracking? Call us today here at LiveViewGPS at 1-888-544-0494 to learn how GPS fleet tracking can help your meal delivery business.

Although there was a 53 percent decline in teenage driver fatalities between the years 2005 and 2014, teen drivers are twice as likely to get into in a fatal accident as adult drivers.

Research conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has found that the inexperience and immaturity contribute to these fatal accidents. Both these factors lead to high-risk driving behavior such as:

• Drinking and driving
• Driving at night
• Driving distracted (electronic devices, teen passengers, etc.)

The United States and the District of Columbia have passed graduated driver licensing (GDL) laws. These laws are enforced to provide more time for teen drivers to learn safe driving behavior and complex skills needed to drive a vehicle.

Teen drivers can learn safe driving practices and road rules through driver education classes; however, the GDL program also controls their exposure to driving experiences and eases them into more driving experiences that become increasingly difficult.

How the GDL System Works

Each state has its own GDL laws, but all the GDL programs have three NHTSA recommended stages. Certain restrictions and provisions determine each stage as well as the type of license teens hold. During each stage, teen drivers between the ages of 15 to 18 years old must exhibit responsible and safe driving behavior before they may advance to the next stage.

You can find the GDL laws of your state through this website since laws vary.

What you Can do as a Parent to Help your Teen Driver

There are certain things you can do to help your teen become a safer and responsible driver. These include:

• Providing your teen with the state required supervised driving hours
• Getting a parent supervised driving guide and a driver manual for your teen through your licensing agency’s website
• Investing in a GPS teen tracking device to keep an eye on your teen’s driving behavior
• Keeping a daily log of your teenager’s driving
• Establishing driving rules and explaining the consequences of not abiding by them

After you’ve set the ground rules for driving for your teen, be sure they understand them and explain the consequences to them if they break any of your rules. Put these rules into writing and make sure you enforce them. Be sure your teen understands the violations of not following the GDL program such as distracted driving; it could cost them their license or delay them from getting it.

Do you have a teen that just started to drive? If so, consider getting a GPS vehicle tracking device for your peace of mind. Call us today at 1-888-544-0494 to learn about all the benefits of a LiveView GPS teen tracking device.

A Broken Arrow man was arrested for stealing $20,225 worth of assets from a Stillwater storage unit which included an enclosed trailer (black box) and property as well as an Oklahoma license plate.

The alleged thief remains free and has a $5,000 bond pending his court appearance with his lawyer on his two-count charge.

Stillwater police located and arrested him south of a Golf course entrance approximately 26 minutes after the police were called by the trailer owner to report it missing and the fact he was using GPS to track it.

The owner’s cell phone alerted him while he was asleep that his GPS tracking device was activated by movement. Since he lived close to the storage facility, he drove there to verify if his trailer was in fact missing. After seeing it was, he used his cell phone’s GPS to track its movement and he contacted the police.

In an affidavit, the police sergeant wrote that he had asked the suspect if the trailer was his and the suspect claimed it was saying he had just retrieved it from a storage facility. The Sgt. then went on to tell the suspect that it had a GPS tracker on it, which is how he found him and asked if he would like to tell his side of the story. The suspect told the Sgt. he would like to remain silent.

Once the trailer owner made it to the scene, he verified the trailer immediately saying it was his and opened the locks on the back gate with his key as well as the truck’s broken lock in the back.

After opening the trailer up, he retrieved the GPS device hidden behind his commercial lawn equipment in the trailer’s front wall near the top.

The owner claimed he didn’t know the suspect and that he didn’t give the suspect permission to take the trailer. The alleged thief was then arrested.

The Sgt. noticed that the back seat and bed of the truck was filled with hand, power and construction tools which he suspected the alleged thief also stole. He had also stolen an Oklahoma license tag from another vehicle that was located in Stillwater at an apartment complex.

The officer who watch the surveillance video from the storage facility said that from what he could see, the suspect jumped over the storage facility’s perimeter fence and removed the automatic entry gate’s chain from its sprockets allowing him to open the gate manually.

Then he backed his truck up to the trailer, hooked it up and drove off. He was unaware that the trailer was immediately being tracked by the GPS tracking device and was alerting the owner.

Contents in the trailer included:

• A bed and lawn edger
• Four lawn mowers
• Two leaf blowers
• A line and two weed eaters
• A garden hose
• A trash can
• Hand pruners
• A pitchfork
• A broom
• Loppers
• Three shovels
• A rake
• An ice chest
• A hedge trimmer
• Two gas cans
• A towpower ball mount
• A lock
• A spading fork
• Towpower wheel chocks
• A cement center block

If the alleged thief is convicted of the trailer and law equipment theft, he could be facing a $5,000 fine and as much as five years in prison. He also faces another $1,000 fine and one year in prison if convicted of stealing the license tag.