Winter Fleet Driving Safety and GPS Tracking
11 Jan 2016As winter approaches, it is time to ensure that your fleet vehicles are ready for icy roads and cold weather. In addition to ensuring that your drivers are trained to drive on ice and snow, you can improve the safety and efficiency of driving by installing GPS trackers on all the trucks.
Here are a few ways GPS fleet tracking devices help with winter fleet driving safety during the winter season.
Maintenance Reminders
Some fleet vehicles need more maintenance in the winter to ensure the trucks are in good working order. You get up-to-date maintenance reminders throughout the winter season through GPS tracking. You can program the GPS tracking technology to remind the driver and you that maintenance, such as an oil change or tire rotation, needs to be done. A good working vehicle that gets repairs and tune-ups at the right time will help keep your drivers and vehicles safe.
Informing Customers
There may be times when the roads are so bad, that truckers are either delayed a few hours, or need to put off making deliveries until the following day. This might not happen often, but it does happen. Your GPS tracking device can keep a close eye on drivers and let dispatch know immediately if based on their speed and location, the routes are going to take a little longer. When they notice a pattern of delays, you can contact your customers and them know as soon as possible.
Re-routing Drivers
When weather is bad, some roads might get closed because they are too dangerous to drive on or impassable. In these cases, your driver can inform you of the detour and you can have dispatch re-route them so they can still get to their destination in a timely manner. The new directions and route can be added to their GPS tracking unit in the truck, allowing them to easily adjust their route accordingly. It is the quickest and easiest way to re-route a driver.
Theft Protection
You also get additional theft protection for the fleet vehicles. If a driver has brought merchandise inside a warehouse during a delivery, and someone steals the truck during that time, the GPS tracking device on the truck should be able to track it down. It might even track it before the other goods on the truck get ruined or disposed of.
Follow these tips and your GPS tracking device can help to keep drivers and vehicles safe during the winter.
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