Airport shuttle businesses face many challenges when it comes to increasing profits without sacrificing service. Unfortunately, many airport shuttle operators, feeling they’ve already selected the most efficient possible routes, rule out the potential benefits of GPS fleet tracking, like those listed below, that could save your business a great deal of money, increase profits, and improve customer satisfaction.
Monitor and Alter Driver Behavior
Despite your best route planning, there is no guarantee that your drivers are following their prescribed routes unless you are using some type of system to monitor their routes. More than that, though, you have no way to tell how safely their driving – unless they’re racking up piles of speeding tickets – while they’re out of sight.
GPS fleet tracking changes all that – even going so far as to notify you by text alert or email if drivers go of course, speed, or engage in other specific risky behaviors behind the wheel. These bad behaviors can put your business on the line and risk your reputation – not to mention cost you money in terms of tickets, higher insurance rates, higher labor costs, loss of customers, and more.
Keep Vehicle Maintenance Up-to-Date
Vehicle maintenance is another key element that your GPS fleet tracking system can help you stay on top of. Keeping your vehicles in good running order helps them to last longer, saving you from purchasing newer vehicles, and creates less downtime and fewer schedule interruptions related to unexpected repairs – and saves your business a great deal of money by avoiding mechanically-related accidents and breakdowns.
Keeping up with maintenance also means that you’re planning ahead to accommodate maintenance tasks and schedules so it’s built into the schedule and doesn’t cause disruptions.
Eliminate or Greatly Reduce Route Deviations
GPS fleet tracking services allow you to receive notifications whenever one of your airport shuttle busses deviates from its intended routes. This allows you to respond instantly to determine if there’s a problem and get answers from your drivers. There are times when deviations are necessary. There are also occasions when drivers are using these deviations as excuses to take care of personal business in the midst of your business day. This costs you money and can upset the customers your shuttle busses are carrying to their destinations.
It’s the little things that make a big difference for your bottom line. All of these GPS fleet tracking benefits can help you cut costs, improve profits, and keep your customers happy.
Contact us here at LiveViewGPS to see if GPS fleet tracking can improve your airport shuttle business. Call us at 1-888-544-0494, email us at info@liveviewgps.com, complete our online form, or chat with us live online.
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It’s important to regularly monitor your fleet vehicle diagnostics. And regardless of the size of your fleet and all your daily job responsibilities, you should not take regular maintenance lightly since it could result in unwanted vehicle breakdown and serious losses. Thanks to GPS fleet tracking maintenance technology, you can have some help in keeping your fleet maintained and up-and-running. A few ways that GPS fleet management for maintenance can be useful are as follows.
Use GPS Trackers to Schedule Reminders
GPS Tracking for Small Fleets
10 Apr 2017
Small fleet owners, those operating between 10 and 50 light and medium-duty trucks, often overlook the incredible value that GPS tracking can offer when it comes to your bottom line. While cutting fuel costs may be a positive, many small fleet owners feel that won’t make a big enough difference to the bottom line to warrant an increase in costs.
These are just a few of the other benefits GPS tracking has to offer small fleet owners that may bring bigger results for your business than you realize.
