As video monitoring (IVMS) continues to boom across fleet industries, business owners and fleet managers alike are enjoying the benefit of greater visibility (pun intended) into what’s happening in fleet vehicles — but the value of video monitoring goes far beyond the dashboard. Read More
Fleet rightsizing is the practice of ensuring that company vehicles are all effectively filling the roles they were brought into a business to help serve, and making any adjustments to the scope of the fleet as necessary to make the company more operationally efficient. Read More
Following the continued legalization of the use and sale of recreational marijuana in several states across the U.S., a recent report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found a spike in crash rates in states where it was legalized: California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. 1
Proper preventive maintenance practices for trucking fleets cover a wide gamut of vehicle components that should regularly be evaluated, repaired or replaced.
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Discussions on the issue of distracted driving tend to focus on the most prevalent problem: cell phone use. However, fleets that are looking to combat driver distraction in their operations effectively would be remiss to not address another problematic driver distraction: eating and driving.
So, before autonomous cars arrive and allow fleet drivers to easily munch on the go in their work vehicles, fleets should consider how detrimental eating and driving can be regarding the safety of their drivers and vehicles.
Telematics and GPS solutions have evolved and adapted to new industry innovations to match the growing needs of fleet managers.
As of 2018, 30-40% of the fleet market was reported to be using a telematics product 1, a percentage that is still continuing to grow as more fleets find these solutions increasingly valuable to their business.
When it comes to managing a fleet, there are a lot of factors to consider that may cause bottlenecks and constraints. Namely, personnel and materials required to operate the fleet are issues that every fleet manager is currently facing.
Drivers have a difficult job. They spend hours of their day navigating traffic and dealing with other drivers while focusing on arriving at their destination quickly and safely. The pressures of job productivity can lead to bad driving habits like speeding, hard braking, and aggressive acceleration and potentially cause accidents. Luckily fleets have tools that can help identify these bad driving habits and address them. Video telematics systems can monitor the vehicle, and the driver and systems like the GPS Trackit solution can assign a score to evaluate how a driver is performing. Read More
Your job as a fleet manager or fleet owner is complex because you have to manage preventive maintenance, service history, multiple service dates, manufacturer recalls and track the costs of many vehicles in your fleet. This work is more complicated when the data is spread across multiple systems, spreadsheets and paper documents.
