One of the most effective uses of GPS fleet tracking software is to avoid traffic jams. Using it saves drivers time and saves the company money.

Traffic jams happen for a variety of reasons: construction, accidents, and commuting. They wreak havoc with schedules and slow down deliveries. When you can regularly avoid them, drivers, customers — and your bottom line — will benefit.

Benefits of Avoiding Congestion

There are five major benefits to your and your drivers when you efficiently use your GPS tracking to avoid construction and commuter traffic.

1. Better worker productivity: Instead of sitting in long lines of traffic, your drivers move around it, getting pickups and deliveries done on time

2. Truck engines don’t have to work as hard: Idling the engine for long periods is a fact if a truck is stuck in traffic. This decreases engine life and increases maintenance and repair costs.

3. Better mileage: While sitting in traffic, your trucks are still using fuel. Keeping them moving to their destination means trucks are not wasting this expensive resource.

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Vessels and ferries off the New York Harbor go digital with real-time GPS tracking data, provided by city officials.

Just off Staten Island, New Yorkers wait for their ferry boats, but really have no idea when exactly they will dock. However, that is all about to change as the city has approved GPS tracking of the ferries.

Passengers will be able to see where the ferries are at the harbor and when they are waiting at the terminals. The system is being called the Automatic Identification System (AIS), which is also used inside the ferryboats managed by the Department of Transportation (DOT).

“DOT decided to install the AIS to allow passengers to see where the ferries were in the harbor while waiting for them at the terminals,” a spokesman for DOT said,

The tracking units on the ferries and other vessels will show the movement of the boats about every five minutes. The GPS vessel tracking website will house a map that is refreshed every 60 seconds to show any change that might have taken place in their location. Read the rest of this entry »

How GPS Tracking Can Eliminate Employee Side Jobs

Moonlighting is a fact of life for nearly five percent of American Labor, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That extra money can mean making the mortgage. This is commendable and shows financial initiative on the part of the worker that juggles two jobs. However, there are concerns from the employer’s perspective: possible exposure of trade secrets, fatigued and exhausted employees, and potential use of company resources.

Side Jobs on Your Time

But if he’s using your truck and tools to work this second job, that’s far less laudable. It’s cutting into your bottom line and needs to be stopped.

For example, a plumber might be taking on side jobs in the evening after normal working hours. You may not have a problem with that, except if he’s taken your truck and tools to do it.

Another case is a limo driver driving friends to the prom for free—in your vehicle, on your time, with your gas. Read the rest of this entry »

Bears are becoming a problem in South Carolina neighborhoods, so a research team is using GPS tracking to get a handle on it.

Due to the increased level of development through the city of Horry County, SC, the neighborhoods are growing rapidly. Unfortunately, the amount of bears being seen in these neighborhoods is also becoming more prevalent.

When new residential areas are built, the bears lose their natural habitat and have to start looking for shelter and food in other places. In Horry County, it has been local neighborhoods, frightening adults, children, and other animals.

One man does construction in the Barefoot Resort area, and he has seen bears more than once. He noted that they cross the street like a deer would.

Researchers from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) have made it their mission to reduce how many encounters occur between bears and people, while still protecting this precious wildlife. Read the rest of this entry »

Glass repair is a competitive market. It’s not always easy to get an edge over your competition, but there’s one thing you can do that will advance your business miles ahead of others in your market area, make the move to fleet GPS tracking. These are just a few ways your glass repair company will benefit from GPS tracking.

Improve Customer Service

Customers like to have a good idea of how long repairs will take and how fast you can come to them to make the repairs. With GPS fleet tracking, you have a good idea of where every truck in your fleet is. Your experience in the business should let you know about how long a typical glass repair or replacement job will take. Combine the power of the two and you can identify a fairly decent window of time for the truck to arrive.

Add the power of GPS tracking and real-time traffic monitoring, plus provide the customer with the ability to track the movements of the truck for themselves so they know exactly when the truck should arrive and you have a happy customer on your hands – one that’s likely to become a repeat customer.

*Added bonus for your business – you’re not fielding the inevitable volley of “When will you be getting here?” phone calls from impatient customers. Read the rest of this entry »