Bad driving habits drive up fleet costs in big ways. When this happens, your entire organization pays. These are some of the bad driver habits that can rob your entire organization of profits and growth.

Wastes Fuel, Driving Costs Higher

One of the big cost factors is that bad driver habits waste fuel. These habits can cost your fleet an enormous amount of money each year and include the following types of behaviors by drivers:

• Speeding
• Excessive idling
• Aggressive accelerations
• Distracted driving
• Hard braking

Finding a way to discourage these types of behaviors among drivers and adopting policies that explicitly discourage them is the fastest way toward improving your bottom line year after year.

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According to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), four of every 10, tissue and donor organ transplants that occur each year involve living organs and tissues. While most organ or tissue donations of this type are from close friends and family, there are some people who gladly donate to help improve the lives of others. Did you know that there is a nationwide issue related to donated tissue and organs? One that renders many donated organs unusable for transplant. GPS tracking for live transplant organs and other organ donations could help prevent many of the lost organs and near misses that currently occur.

Lost Organs and the Effort to Prevent Them

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Transporting delicate, fragile, or high value goods can be tricky proposition without the right technology on your side. Once upon a time, it involved a wide range of stops and starts to check the juxtaposition of the high-value or delicate items. Now, there are tools and technology that can help you get more mileage from your efforts with certainty that your precious cargo arrives at its intended destination without getting lost in the transition.

Install GPS Tracking on Individual High-Value Items

Many trucks on the road today have GPS fleet tracking already installed. Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily stop thefts that occur at truck stops or when trucks are caught in traffic, etc. Nor does it completely deter employee assisted theft of valuable items.

Install GPS tracking on the individual items, however, can greatly reduce the instances of theft and aid in the swift discovery of thieves while delivering real-time data about where these high-value items are located.

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