Carpet cleaning services have a lot of moving parts to manage. Dispatchers often wish for extra help managing their fleets, whether it’s two vehicles on the road or 20. Keeping up with locations, routes, ETAs, and more can become a full time job in itself.

GPS fleet tracking uses telematics to share computerized information over long distances with dispatchers to keep track of what’s going on in the field with your carpet cleaning business.

These are just a few ways GPS tracking can be beneficial to your carpet cleaning business.

Provides More Efficient Routing Information

Efficient routing saves carpet cleaning businesses time and a great deal of money. This is money that can be reinvested into your business for unprecedented growth while enjoying bigger and better profits. It’s not just the cost of gas you’re able to save with better routing. It’s also labor costs that are far more significant overall. In other words, the savings add up faster than the average carpet cleaning business expects.

Timely Appointment Windows

The ability to accurately pinpoint when your staff will arrive to clean carpets is a big boon to consumers who often must take time out of their busy schedules to accommodate these windows. It equates to much greater rates of customer satisfaction that translates into better references and more business for you. It’s a gift you offer your customers that ultimately rewards your business.

Improved Productivity

There’s nothing like a ticking time clock and the knowledge that someone is watching to motivate workers to pick up the pace and be more productive. The fact that you can monitor the amount of time each worker spends on each call means there is added pressure on all employees to perform their tasks as efficiently as possible. This means you can fit more calls into a day without adding more hours to the day to accomplish that task. It also allows you to identify weaker links among staff members.

Reduce Personal Use of Company Vehicles

Whether employees are sneaking errands into the schedule or they’re using business vehicles to “moonlight” after hours, you need to know what’s going on with your vehicles at all times.

GPS tracking systems can be set up to send alerts whenever vehicles deviate from the prescribed route or are in use after the close of business hours. These uses could pose big problems for your business whether you know they’re happening or not because your business is liable for activities that take place within these vehicles.

Whether your interests are in better tracking, easier routing, saving money, or all of the above, there’s no denying that GPS fleet tracking can provide many benefits to your carpet cleaning business. Don’t take our word for it though. See for yourself what a difference it can make.

Service dogs are now going hi-tech by incorporating GPS tracking technology into their daily life.

Wearable technology exists for many reasons, and both for humans and now K-9s. Service dogs assist people with disabilities, and many of them will now be wearing vests that includes GPS trackers.

Not only that, but service dogs will actually use technology similar to Siri, where they can bark for 911 in an emergency.

Service dogs are a special type of dog that provide assistance to people with disabilities. They are trained to help people with hearing or visual impairments, seizures, mental illness, diabetes, autism, and many other physical or mental ailments. Read the rest of this entry »

Risk comes with the territory when you manage a fleet of vehicles. This is true if you have five of them or 500, if your organization is public or private. A major part of your job is to manage that risk as effectively as possible.

Types of Risks

Risk comes in many forms. Consider these:

● Vehicles that are stolen.
● Vehicles that are damaged or destroyed in accidents or due to the weather.
● Harm to drivers due to accidents or criminal events.
● Harm to the public due to accidents or crime.
● Medical claims from the public and workers compensation claims from employees.
● Litigation like personal injury suits.
● Damage to your company’s reputation, impacting its bottom line.
● Downtime that gets customers angry.

Here is a closer look at why you need to spend time and energy to manage risk for your fleet as effectively as possible. Read the rest of this entry »

Man Created GPS Drawing To Spell Out Marriage… by GeoBeats

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, comes a story about GPS tracking and, well, love. One man’s wedding proposal goes high-tech when he uses GPS tracking to propose to his girlfriend.

Global positioning systems (GPS) are being used for everything from monitoring the movements and behavior of wild animals to tracking down thieves with GPS trackers hidden in storage containers. It is also being used for more modern uses, where individuals get a little more creative.

One good example of this is when a man in Japan decided to use GPS tracking and mapping technology for one of the most technological marriage proposals yet.

During his journey through Japan, the artist traveled over 4,349 miles in six months. The majority of his trip was done on foot in order to go the route he intended for the proposal, but some of it was done by bicycle, ferry and car. He went from Hokkaido Island on to Hyodo Cliff, and ended at Kyushu Island.

When asked about his idea to propose in this way, Takahashi said: “I wanted to write the world’s biggest proposal, and I found GPS drawing was the way to do it.”

It didn’t hurt that Takahashi was not only an artist by trade, but was also up-to-date on tracking technology at that time. In 2008, people were only beginning to discover how much you could do with GPS technology, and Takahashi knew exactly what he wanted to do with it. Read the rest of this entry »

Upkeep, fuel, and driver pay for your fleet of business vehicles are expensive. When you plan the routes, you reduce costs and speed delivery times. GPS, or global positioning system, tracking devices help you pick routes in the most optimal way possible, allowing you to manage your fleet of vehicles more efficiently.

Here are a look at five key ways you can benefit by using GPS fleet tracking for your scheduling management.

#1. Pick the best route.

Making use of cloud technology and advanced devices, managers now get real-time scheduling and route planning data. The current status of a worker or truck is available instantly, letting a manager make adjustments moment-to-moment. Even at commuter rush hour, it is easy to choose the most optimal route.

GPS technology offers advanced geo-location, 3D mapping and telematics that let dispatchers plan journeys to save gas, reduce wear and tear and speed delivery times Read the rest of this entry »