What to Include in Your Field Service Company’s GPS Tracking Employee Policy
Uncategorized September 19, 2022 0

What to Include in Your Field Service Company’s GPS Tracking Employee Policy

Incorporating a GPS tracking platform into your fleet operations is a big step toward improving efficiency and reducing costs. Systems like those from GPS Trackit offer everything from better routing to improved fuel economy and reduced wear-and-tear from aggressive driving. But adopting those systems can also present a cultural change for your drivers. Make the transition carefully and correctly and you can increase your crew’s motivation and engagement. Skip some steps and you risk building a culture of suspicion and distrust. 

Follow these steps to set up an employee GPS tracking policy that will make it easier to achieve your goals. 

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Reduce Collisions
Cost Savings, Safety & Security, Uncategorized, Video Dash Cam August 19, 2022 0

How Artificial Intelligence Can Reduce Collisions

It wasn’t so many years ago that a phone was just a phone—not a smartphone with everything from a high-definition camera to internet access and social media packed into it. You can say the same thing about video cameras installed in fleet vehicles. A dashcam can be just that—a video camera installed in a truck—or it can be much more. 

Dashcams with AI are “smart cameras,” and they can help fleets avoid accidents and save thousands of dollars in repair costs, legal bills, and insurance premiums. Here’s how they work. 

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The Four Fleet KPIs You Need to Monitor with Telematics
Cost Savings, Fleet Management, Uncategorized July 15, 2022 0

The Four Fleet KPIs You Need to Monitor with Telematics

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.

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Let Your Crews Know You Have Their Backs with Video Telematics
Uncategorized July 8, 2022 0

Let Your Crews Know You Have Their Backs with Video Telematics

Field service business fleet managers send their landscaping, roofing, pest control, or construction crews on thousands of calls every day. Those trucks drive millions of miles every year—and accidents can happen. But what happens when the other driver in one of those accidents makes a false claim? If you don’t have witnesses, you don’t have any evidence. With GPS Trackit’s video telematics and dashcam solutions, fleet managers can capture high-definition footage of an incident, even in low light. The footage can stream back to HQ in real-time, stored on board or on the cloud—giving you easy access to the evidence you need to prevent false claims and costly lawsuits. 

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How GPS Tracking Helps Prevent Cargo Theft
Cost Savings, Trailer & Asset Management, Uncategorized May 6, 2022 0

How GPS Tracking Helps Prevent Cargo Theft

When the pandemic disrupted supply chains across the United States, it also accelerated incidents of cargo theft. According to the FBI, more than $15 billion in cargo was stolen either by being separated from a shipment or from the cargo hauler itself being stolen.

Standard GPS systems installed in a tractor-trailer can help you monitor where your truck is at all times—but if the truck is gone, you’ll only be able to watch it disappear. Just this spring, Ukrainian farmers watched helplessly as their expensive farm machinery was stolen by Russia and moved by truck hundreds of miles across the border.

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GPS Asset Tracking: How to Keep Track of Your Valuables
Trailer & Asset Management, Uncategorized April 14, 2022 0

GPS Asset Tracking: How to Keep Track of Your Valuables

When it comes to knowing where your assets are, nothing beats the security of GPS asset tracking. By installing a small, unobtrusive GPS asset tracker on valuable items like trucks, heavy equipment, and construction tools, you can keep tabs on their location no matter where they are in the world. 

Because they use satellite technology, you can access their location data from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

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