{"id":2010,"date":"2015-02-02T05:32:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveviewgps.com\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:24:07","slug":"7-reasons-gps-fleet-tracking-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liveviewgps.com\/blog\/7-reasons-gps-fleet-tracking-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Reasons to Consider GPS Fleet Tracking for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hopefully 2015 is off to a great start for your business. If you\u2019re like many businesses, you\u2019re using this time to assess the profits and losses of 2014 while seeking new ways to increase profitability while minimizing losses in the coming year.<\/p>\n

Have you considered GPS fleet tracking<\/a> for your 2015 fleet management needs? These are just a few reasons why you should!<\/p>\n

1) Ease the Fleet Management Process<\/strong><\/p>\n

Managing a fleet of vehicles is no easy task without the assistance of GPS tracking. Whether you\u2019re tracking delivery services, cab companies, limousines, or long-distance tractor trailers, fleet managers have a lot of moving parts to manage and monitor. Fleet tracking GPS takes a once-difficult process involving complex mathematical calculations and reduces it to a few strokes on the keyboard \u2013 or the use of a mobile app.<\/p>\n

2) Improve Delivery Estimates<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not good for customer satisfaction to force customers to wait around all day for deliveries. GPS tracking allows businesses the opportunity to provide more accurate location-based estimates for deliveries or service arrivals. This makes for happy customers who are able to do so much more with their days than wait for a cab to show up or floral delivery to arrive (especially men eager to get out of the proverbial dog house).<\/p>\n

3) Reduce Unauthorized Use of Company Vehicles<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a big money pit that most companies aren\u2019t even fully aware of until they see how often business vehicles are used, during and after hours, to take care of personal business for employees. Twenty minutes here and there throughout the day, not to mention the extra fuel, can cost your business plenty when multiplied by your total number of drivers.<\/p>\n

Then there are the employees who use company vehicles to moonlight<\/a>, which could present liability and insurance issues for your business that go well beyond what you\u2019re covered for. For some businesses, this alone makes GPS tracking well worth the investment.<\/p>\n

4) Increase Driver Accountability<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just about speeding and safe driving, though those are certainly big issues, it\u2019s also about being where you\u2019re supposed to be at appointed hours and keeping the billing process clean and straightforward.<\/p>\n

5) Help the Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all want to do our part to save the planet. While fleet operations must use fossil fuels and this leads to emissions, cutting back on these things with more efficient routing does help the planet. The more fleet operations like school busses, food distribution services, and over-the-road freight delivery that get on board, the bigger the benefits to the planet become.<\/p>\n

6) Cut Costs<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is where most people are a little stunned. It\u2019s not just fuel costs that get cut when you make the switch to a fleet GPS tracking system (and those can be substantial). It\u2019s also all of the following that are reduced too:<\/p>\n