Upgrading your fleet management system to an automated system is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve your business.

Here are 7 advantages to automated fleet management systems:

1)  Driver Safety

Safety should always be first. Your assets are important but the people transporting those assets are even more so. And anyway, without them, you wouldn’t have a business (no matter what Elon Musk says).

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Ensuring the safety of drivers is one of the most important things for every fleet manager. While all of your drivers are literally professional drivers, as a fleet manager you know accidents do happen.

Before and during an accident happens, one of the most important things that affect safety is braking. An inappropriate brake can cause an accident in and of itself. Brake too hard and the car behind can rear-end you, brake not hard enough and you can rear-end someone else, or worse.

One of the best ways to improve safety for your vehicle fleet is to go over some safe braking techniques and tips with your drivers.

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The California Electronic Device (ELD) Mandate took effect on January 1st, 2024. This new mandate affects all drivers in California.

Prior to the mandate, only interstate drivers were required by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) to use ELDs to record their hours of service (rather than pen and paper), and California intrastate drivers weren’t required to do so. With the implementation of this new mandate, intrastate drivers will no longer be exempt and are required to record a driver’s record of duty status (RODS). Read the rest of this entry »