GPS tracking for street cleaning fleets is one of the best gifts you can give your bottom line. When you use GPS fleet tracking for street sweepers, you save your business on fuel, labor, and time by creating more fuel efficient routes, eliminating double coverage, and keeping your sweepers on task for the duration of their shifts. It’s a win for your organization and provides essential services for your communities.

Big Picture Route Planning

GPS fleet tracking software is able to manage in seconds what would otherwise take weeks to properly plan. With so many changes in real estate, landscapes, and even roadways occurring in growing cities, it is always wise to consult GPS fleet tracking services before planning new areas to your street sweeping route. This can make sure that you’re not hitting some streets multiple times by multiple drivers while missing other key streets you’re responsible for. Read the rest of this entry »

Brake checking is a dangerous game for drivers to play on the road. Especially when they are playing it with your vehicles, equipment, cargo, reputation, and liability to fund their efforts. For those who have never heard the term “brake checking,” it refers to the act of hitting the brakes really hard to make the person behind you respond in kind. It seems innocent enough.

Unfortunately, we live in a distracted driving kind of world where it is very possible they’ll never see it coming, and a simple act designed to discourage tailgating results in an accident with injuries, or even deaths. Or it could be worse: a chain reaction of accidents that result in both.

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Finding the best fleet management software may not be that simple of a task when you’re on the outside looking in. Of course, no one wants to make costly mistakes that will keep on giving for a long time to come. That doesn’t mean there aren’t things you can do to help you buy with confidence when selecting management software for your fleet.

These are a few of the things you can do to know you’re getting the best software for your business needs. Make sure your software offers them.

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Vehicle crashes the the leading killer of teens in the U.S. In fact, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, for 16 to 17 year old teens, the deadly crash rate per mile driven is almost three times the rate for drivers who are 20 years and older.

And, 1,908 drivers between the ages of 15 and 20 died in 2016 in a vehicle crash, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) figures. Having your teen behind the wheel can be worrisome and nerve-racking, particularly when you’re aware of these facts. However, worrying will not keep your teen driver safe, but there are some things you can do.

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The MA State Police union decided to adopt GPS tracking where police cruisers will be tracked with a trade-off of modest pay raises in a recent agreed contract with the state.

Representing most of the 2,200 police officers, the Massachusetts State Police Association agreed in recent weeks to the contract terms, reported The Boston Globe on Tuesday. For the past two years, troopers have been working under an expired contract.

In light of the overtime corruption scandal through the state agency, Gov. Charlie Baker pushed for the use of GPS trackers. Dozens of troopers and supervisors, over the past couple of years:

• Were accused of being paid overtime for hours they didn’t work
• Tried to cover their absences by lying on paperwork.

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