As more consumers begin to shift their focus and buying power toward companies and businesses that share their preferences for greener and more sustainable lifestyles, fleets are left trying to figure out how to make their businesses operate a little bit greener.

While many fleet owners believe it’s impossible to make their businesses greener and still turn a profit, there are actually a few key methods for greening your fleet you can do at the same time. Here are a few prime examples.

End the Idling

Idling costs fleets big. It costs the planet even bigger. According to Minute Man Trucks, eliminating as little as one hour of idling per week can spare the planet from 500 pounds of CO₂ per year, for each truck doing this. Imagine what it would mean for larger fleets or when curbing greater amounts of time spent idling. Even better? You can put a nice dent in your fuel expenses for the year when going green this way. Plus, you eliminate the wear and tear on vehicles that occurs while idling. It’s a win for your fleet and the planet!

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Deliveries and delivery times are more important than ever. Vital goods are moving across the country, across cities, and to individual homes and families. Whether you are a large freight mover, a local pharmacy, or even grocery delivery service; you’re responsible for getting important items to consumers in short order.

GPS fleet tracking can help you deliver more goods in less time keeping American homes, business, medical centers, and more going in their most critical hours. These are just a few ways GPS fleet tracking can help.

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GPS tracking for your lawn care company this spring offers many more benefits than the average business owner realizes. These are five reasons your lawn care company needs GPS tracking this spring.

1. Confirm Driver Locations

This serves two purposes. First, if there is a customer dispute, you can verify the precise location of your drivers and vehicles and how long they were in that location.

Additionally, it offers confirmation for you that your drivers are where they are supposed to be and not on the other side of town taking an early lunch break. It helps to keep drivers honest,while also serving to have their backs and defend them when disputes arise.

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GPS tracking for law enforcement offers many benefits to state troopers and more — enough benefits that it should be a priority for all law enforcement agencies to equip their fleet vehicles and patrol cars with. These are among the top benefits to state troopers and other law enforcement agencies when it comes to GPS fleet tracking.

Improve Safety and Response Times by Always Knowing Trooper Locations

GPS tracking, in its nature, provides a precise location of officer and trooper whereabouts, at all times when they are on patrol and in, or near, their cars. In these contentious times, it means that help arrives promptly and at the correct locations when officers are hurt in the line of duty or call for assistance.

This, combined with prompt routing to help officers get the fastest route to the location improves response times, and helps to save lives in some cases, and quickly de-escalate tense situations in other cases.

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Coronavirus. It’s something few Americans gave much of a thought about while ringing in 2020 on New Year’s Eve. Just three short months later, it’s all Americans can think about. As nurses and doctors many the front lines in this fight and American citizens practice social distancing, wash our hands, and hunker down to ride out this storm, it’s truckers who are among the unsung heroes delivering critical medical supplies and essential goods to hospitals and grocery stores across the country.

As the world tilts and shifts for everyone across the country, citizens have flocked to grocery stores to stock up on essentials. Items everyone takes for granted, such as hand soap, sanitizer, toilet paper, and even food are suddenly in short supply on retail shelves. It has been up to America’s truck drivers to step up to the plate to deliver the home run for the American people.

Now, the American Trucking Associations, ATA, which is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry, is calling on Americans to salute the men and women who are working long hours, pulling extra shifts, and travelling extra miles across the country.

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