Fleet management is a hectic profession. When fleet managers aren’t spending time tackling day-to-day issues that are specific to their operations, they are likely addressing broader fleet problems, such as safety, maintenance, or any number of other perennial issues.
Far from the traditional agrarian methods that we’ve used since the days of Ben Franklin, today’s farmers are using a mix of modern innovations to maximize efficiency and improve productivity. Read More
In recent years, many fleet managers have considered moving to a telematics-based fleet management system. There are choices at all different price points and levels of complexity available. What are the most common fleet management system risks? How do you decide which system is right for you? GPS Trackit is here to help. Read More
64% of trucking fleets are currently using a GPS fleet tracking solution in their organization. Adoption of fleet tracking is estimated at less than 20% among construction company fleets. This is surprising since some 80% of heavy equipment produced for the American market comes equipped with telematics. Dozens of OEM’s in the United States are trying to sell their hardware and software to the off-highway heavy equipment industry and its fleet managers. The data generated by telematics is increasingly useful to fleet managers. Read More
The fleet management profession is unique in that experts of the field need to manage and maintain often sizable vehicle fleets but are also expected to stay abreast on a broad range of topics in the ever-evolving automotive industry in order to maintain success. Read More
Last-mile delivery activity skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the significant increase in online orders as stay-at-home mandates for the public and non-essential business workers were enacted across the globe. Read More
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
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.
