LiveViewGPS, the GPS tracking experts for business vehicles, will be showcasing its exclusive Live GPS Vehicle Tracking Systems in Booth #126 at the 2017 American Towman Showplace Expo, May 11-12, 201, in Las Vegas, NV at the Southpoint Hotel, Casino & Spa.

LiveViewGPS provides a variety of easy to use advanced GPS vehicle tracking systems for the towing industry that enhances safety security, and driver management. LiveViewGPS also has GPS tracking devices to assist in vehicle recovery efforts.

LiveViewGPS provides owners and executives with answers. LiveViewGPS trackers make available for real-time and live vehicle location updates, vehicle speeds, as well as instant alerting to bad driver behaviors. “We identify the unknown. Information and events that occur in the field, which a manager would usually never find out about,” said George Karonis, CEO of LiveViewGPS. LiveViewGPS will reduce your company risks, and help you to take control of your business today.

As a fleet manager, you can save a great deal of money down the road by ensuring your trucks’ tires are inflated properly.

Consequences of Wrong Tire Pressure

Even as little as 10 percent of tire under-inflation can lead to an almost two percent drop in fuel economy, according to the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) in some research they conducted. Your tire life is reduced by 30 percent when tires are 20 percent under-inflated.

Furthermore, when your fleet drivers are driving on tires that aren’t inflated properly, it can damage your vehicles in many ways. Keep your fleet vehicles in better condition with the proper tire pressure education.

Implementing a preventative tire maintenance program can help you avoid these consequences. This maintenance program should include not just tire pressure, but everything else from servicing lug nuts to checking tread depths. However, tire pressure is the most important part of your maintenance program since it has a profound effect on your customer satisfaction, overhead costs, wear life, driver safety, and fuel efficiency.

Costs of these Consequences

When a tire blows out, the costs associated with it can add up fast. You have the cost of the new tire and the tow or roadside assistance charges to think about too. If your drivers replace the tire themselves, this costs you in productivity time. Blowouts can also lead to significant damage to your fleet vehicles which results in expensive repairs and insurance rates.

What You Can Do About it

Although it’s fairly simple to monitor tire pressure, it’s time-consuming as well when just one truck alone has 18 tires. Just imagine how many hours of labor it takes to check your whole fleet. You can reduce if not eliminate the time involved in monitoring tire pressure with advanced monitoring systems.

One option for keeping an eye on tire pressure is installing an automatic tire inflation system. This system takes the air from the trucks existing air supply and routes it to the control box of the system through each axle. Then the axles route the air through a rotary union assembly which maintains the tires air pressure by keeping them at optimal pressure while your drivers are driving.

Another great option is using a GPS fleet management and tracking device. GPS technology collects important information like speed and location. You can set it up to notify you when your tires need rotated or your oil needs changed.

Since you now know tire pressure can greatly influence your bottom line, you may want to invest in a GPS tracking system to automatically monitor the tire pressure for you.

More questions about how GPS tracking technology can help with your fleet maintenance? We’re here to answer those questions. Call us today at 1-888-544-0494.

We’ve talked about GPS tracking for small fleets here. Now, let’s talk about how it can benefit mid-sized fleets. Those operating 100 – 300 vehicles, or mid-sized fleets, have many concerns to deal with on any given day. If you’re one of those people, you’re constantly juggling many balls in the air and hoping that none of them get dropped at critical moments. It’s almost too much for many people to contemplate.

There is something you can do to make the entire process much simpler: invest in GPS tracking for medium-sized fleets. These are just a few of the benefits it will offer your fleet.

Track Time Accurately

This includes driving time for drivers on long-haul trips as well as tracking time for labor reports. While paperwork might not seem like that big of a deal for your business, if you have 300 drivers milking the clock for even 15 minutes each day, it can add up to a huge expense for your business. GPS tracking doesn’t fudge the numbers so you know exactly how much you owe your drivers for their time behind the wheels each day.

Improves Communication

Most GPS fleet tracking systems allow for easy two-way conversation between dispatch and drivers. This creates a less intrusive method of communication than mobile phone devices and allows you to make routing changes, relay messages, and provide instructions in an instant to your drivers who are on the road.

Creates Better Driver Accountability

Your drivers represent your business when they are on the road. It’s your name on the vehicles they’re driving. When they drive aggressively, speed, swerve, and engage in other bad behavior behind the wheel, you want to know about it so you can take corrective action right away. Your GPS tracking system will notify you via text message or email when drivers exhibit certain behaviors while on the road.

Other areas of accountability come with scheduling, delivery, and sticking to the prescribed path. You can print off detailed reports related to how long service calls take, whether drivers conducted personal errands on company time, and if your drivers are following their prescribed routes so you can get an explanation for deviations afterward.

Protects Your Assets

In addition to notifying you of bad driving behaviors by your drivers, you can create perimeters or boundaries for your vehicles – as well as schedules. Whenever vehicles leave the prescribed areas or are operational during scheduled “sleep” periods, you will receive an instant message or email alert notifying you of the potential problem. You can then track the location of the vehicle, in real time, to provide local law enforcement of the exact vehicle location to aid in its recovery.

With all the ways GPS tracking can aid your fleet, the big question is why you don’t have it yet?

Are you a mid-sized fleet operator? Call us here at LiveViewGPS to learn how GPS tracking can help improve your bottom line.  Toll Free: 1-888-544-0494 Direct: 661-294-6805