Fleet management video cameras or dashcams may be essential for protecting your fleet, but how can you get your drivers to accept it?
Itโs easy to find driver comments online about dash cams. Some experienced drivers take pride in their safety records and feel the dash cam is an intrusion or a cause for stress. A few drivers mention how video can prove that the car driver is often at fault in an accident with fleet trucks. This video evidence can exonerate the professional fleet truck driver and reduce expensive insurance claims How can we answer driver questions and make it easier for them to see the value of dashcams in their fleet vehicles?. Read More
In-Vehicle Monitoring System (IVMS) Tracking: Everything You Need to Know
Transportation and logistics can be complicated. You have a full plate with managing driving habits, delivering loads on time, responding to roadside emergencies, and monitoring large fleets of vehicles. There is plenty of room for driver and route optimization as well as cost optimizations and quicker disaster response. What if you could preserve your driversโ health and better maintain your fleet while saving on cost and delivering more quickly?
What States Require Driver Consent for GPS Tracking and Video Telematics?
Using GPS tracking and video recording is common in modern fleet management. GPS tracking improves navigation, helps drivers find faster routes by avoiding traffic, and helps them save on gas. Businesses are also able to provide their clients with up-to-the-minute updates about shipment locations and driver progress. But businesses need to consider whether they are legally allowed to use these tools. Read More
Is Fleet Management Smarter with GPS Tracking?
Can we take a moment to discuss what counts as a โsmarterโ solution?
Smart solutions help anticipate problems and solve them before they turn into operational hazards. For instance, Tyrel Steffen runs field operations for Classic Installs โ a national kitchen installer for commercial kitchens. Tyrel has drivers across the country working at night to deliver their turnkey solution. With GPS Trackit, Tyrel monitors error codes and can easily turn days of lost productivity into a couple of hours of downtime by scheduling preventative maintenance with drivers in the field. Read More
Essentials for Your Fleet Management Toolbox
Does your shipping business have the right tools in its fleet management toolbox?
At this time, consolidating your fleet management needs into one system is the easiest, most efficient way to run your business, for the fleet management system that satisfies your needs quickly, monitoring your driversโ safety and the quality of your vehicles, is the one for you.
Immediate alerts regarding your trucksโ locations and any issues that arise with them are the key to your success. The faster youโre able to react to situations or provide your customers with information about the location of their goods, the better your business will be. Read More
Smart Fleet Management: Supercharge with Open API and Third-Party Integrations
Modern fleet management makes use of data from the best technologies to determine the needs of your business. Separate innovations have given us GPS tracking software, temperature gauges within refrigerated trucks, video feeds from dashcams, and more data.ย The way that those applications and programs interact with each other is essential to gathering clear information quickly. Read More
How to Optimize Routes for Your Fleet Vehicles
Managing your fleet well depends on a lot of variables, so an optimized route is one that makes sense of these dependent variables and mitigates their impact. This is crucial because managing this impact is the key to improving efficiency and generating a better ROI over time. Read More
Rising Gas Prices: How Fleet Management Can Help
The cost of gas is the highest itโs been since the start of the pandemic. It. Demand for gasoline decreased last spring as travel slowed while people quarantined at home. And gas prices dropped 27 cents from 2019. But pump prices have steadily risen as the crisis has continued. By the end of 2020, it reached $2.31, according to the AAA. In January 2021, diesel averaged $2.63 across the country. Read More
IoT, the Internet of things, can assist in the integration, communication, information processing, and control of transportation systems. The use of tracking software and location services in vehicles, hardware, and drivers has revolutionized fleet management.
