One of Clauser Tree Care’s clients had a big problem. Namely, an enormous log was sitting in her Philadelphia-area yard. Clauser had taken down the tree earlier in the day, but the size of the log meant a different truck needed to be dispatched to take it away. Hoping to get it taken care of before the weekend, she called Clauser in the late afternoon to see what could be done.
Two of the largest variable costs any fleet manager has to deal with are fuel and maintenance costs. One of the most effective ways to get a handle on those costs is to use a sophisticated GPS-based fleet management tool to monitor them in real-time.
Whether you’re managing six trucks or 60, a simple update to your in-vehicle technology can produce a positive return on investment in less than 30 days. Dashcams for fleet service businesses make good financial sense. Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can bank that savings potential.
If it feels like inflation has your field service business squeezed in a vice, you aren’t alone. With inflation projected to be nearly more than 6 percent this year and significantly higher than average in 2023, everything you’re using to send your crews into the field costs more—from fuel to truck maintenance materials to wages themselves. You can’t control the macro factors driving inflation higher, but you can take away some of the pain cost increases cause with help from field service management technology.
With the complexities that come with running a modern fleet, managers need the best tools at their disposal. With the technology loaded into cutting-edge fleet management solutions, it’s easy to make things work using the speed and precision of automation instead of hours of analysis and paperwork. Here are five ways you can be a successful fleet manager:
Insurance for your fleet is an unavoidable expense. Protecting your assets is a must. But you can save from 15 to 30 percent on those insurance premiums—thousands of dollars per year—simply by using a GPS-based fleet management solution in each vehicle.
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Platforms like GPS Trackit’s Fleet Management solution offer a virtually unlimited selection of measurements and metrics. You can take a top-level view of your fleet as a whole, or drill down to specific vehicles and drivers to find more granular insights. With the right set of KPIs (or, key performance indicators), you can monitor the variables that mean the most for your business, from efficiency to safety to cost savings.
Here are 5 Ways To Manage the take-home vehicles Process –
Giving an employee a company vehicle is, depending on the situation, a necessary element of the job or a fantastic perk. Either way, it comes with some potential challenges you can control with some planning and better information. Here are five ways to manage take-home vehicles:
Fuel costs rose once again to record highs in late spring, eclipsing $4.50 per gallon nationwide. Any organization that relies on fuel is susceptible to that pain—and that includes school districts and their bus fleets. Georgia public schools were forced to go to remote learning days to save diesel fuel and cash, and a Florida district saw its fuel expenditures rise as much as 40 percent in a matter of months because of just-in-time purchasing policies.
It’s easy enough to use the comprehensive driver monitoring tools available from a vendor like GPS Trackit to enforce company safety and equipment management policies. A good fleet management platform will tell you when and how every truck—and driver—on your team is performing in real-time.
