How Roofing Contractors Benefit from GPS Fleet Tracking

14 Sep 2016

As a roofing contractor you have a lot to accomplish in only a few months each year in many parts of the country. The weather is your worst enemy and could put a real damper on your profits in any given year. With that in mind, you need all the help you can get for maximizing productivity when you are working. GPS fleet tracking offers several different options for reducing costs, boosting productivity, and increasing profits – including those listed below.

Keep Up with Employees

While some employees might have negative feelings about this as it helps to prevent things like running personal errands on the clock, moonlighting, and taking unscheduled breaks during the workday it also allows you to have their backs when claims are made that they weren’t where they were supposed to be at the appropriate time. GPS tracks the location of work trucks and provides verifiable proof that your workers were on site and on time.

Track Traffic and Weather in Real Time

No one knows better than you how fickle the weather – or traffic – can be. GPS fleet tracking allows real time tracking of weather and traffic so that you can plan your workday around the worst Mother Nature and the whims of the road can send your way. Tracking the weather allows you to plan worksite visits around dry times so that time isn’t wasted going to job sites (or potential job sites that are going to be inaccessible due to weather). Traffic delays can also be avoided by judicious rerouting thanks to live GPS traffic tracking.

Asset Recovery

Roofing involves a great deal of equipment and materials that go well beyond the trucks that transport them. Unfortunately, they are often easy to steal because they are left on job sites during the day while workers are distracted by the work they’re doing. GPS fleet tracking tools can be instrumental in tracking and recovering items that are stolen or misappropriated quickly, before they are damaged.

You can even set up GPS notifications to alert you via email or text message anytime one of your trucks leaves a designated geographic area. This keeps everyone on the routes they’re supposed to drive and accounted for so that you know quickly when one of your trucks has been taken.

Reduce Unnecessary Overtime

Sometimes overtime is an inevitability. Roofers have only so many days each year when the weather cooperates with the tasks at hand. However, overtime related to unscheduled breaks, off-route employee detours, and employee joyriding between job sites can be eliminated with GPS fleet tracking for roofing companies.

GPS fleet tracking is one of the most important tools for forward thinking roofing companies to adopt for the sake of improving and growing your business. These are only a few small reasons why you need to welcome this technology into your business today. Try it now and see what a difference it will make for your bottom line.

If you own or manage a roofing business, contact us here at LiveView GPS to learn about the benefits of GPS tracking for roofing contractors.


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