Fleet Management For Your Plumbing Business
Increase Productivity and Reduce Expenses
- Complete more service calls each week
- Reduce maintenance costs
- Lower fuel costs from idling, speeding and harsh driving
- Provide customers with accurate ETAs and proof of service
- Secure your vehicle, assets and tools
An All-in-One Solution for Your Plumbing Fleet
Operational Visibility: Knowing the location of your vehicles and behavior of your drivers gives you deeper insight into your business. That’s where GPS Trackit comes in. Our GPS tracking, field management software, video and other fleet management tools give you a simplified, proven solution from a business partner that always has your back.
Connect to Plumbing Technicians in Real Time
Knowing the location of your company assets and drivers is easy with GPS Trackit. Set up geofencing parameters so you know when vehicles enter or leave certain areas or locations. Stay in touch with your mobile workforce with pre-written messages to deliver in response to everyday situations and keep track of daily communications. Drivers receive notifications for missed messages and new stops, so important information never falls by the wayside.
- Live traffic view - Google Maps
- Turn-by-turn breadcrumb trail
- Customized email or text alerts
- 2-way messaging
- Geofences - alerts for pre-set areas
Increase Productivity with Connected Workflows
Keep your mobile workforce organized - each worker can view their route for the day, update their status, review notes, and generate directions at the touch of a button.
- Plan stops and job sites
- Route loading
- Customizable forms
- Time clock and history for drivers
Safeguard Against Risky Behavior and Other Drivers
GPS Trackit’s VidFleet™ video telematics solution helps businesses exonerate their drivers when an accident isn’t their fault; provides more context around utilization; and automates driver coaching to improve safety and reduce administrative burdens.
- Complete view of the road, driver and cabin
- Multi-camera options for 360-degree views
- Real-time, in-cab voice alerts that automate coaching
- Unthrottled live view
- Remote wake-up
- VidFleet AI+
- Edge processing – 30x per second data capture
- Highest resolution in the industry
- Highest resolution in the industry
- Real-time alerts for distraction, drowsiness, smoking, seatbelt, and cell phone use
Optimize Maintenance Schedules to Keep Costs in Check
GPS Trackit’s fleet maintenance solution allows you to track and record all the scheduled maintenance on your vehicles, so you can avoid costly repairs and excessive downtime of vehicles in the shop.
- Record costs for parts or service
- Diagnostics with engine fault codes (DTC)
- Color-coded statuses
- Capture service history
- Set calendar reminders
- Tasks, status, costs, date, and other filters
Improve Security and Protect Your Business
GPS Trackit protects your vehicles, trailers, and equipment by reducing damage and theft. A layer of reliable protection is crucial when you consider replacement, opportunity cost, and your time and energy. Our solution helps you eliminate the expense of on-site security.
- Proactive security measures
- Locate vehicles and assets on demand
- Expedited recovery of stolen vehicles and assets
- Remote starter disable and door unlock
- Alerts about after-hours use
- Roadside assistance
Customizable and Actionable Reports in a Live View
Proactively support your business with robust reports conveniently in one place. Easily schedule reports to deploy automatically, making it easier than ever to get the information you need precisely when you need it. Managing your fleet has never been simpler.
- Deep data dives with 30+ customizable reports
- Scheduled or on-demand daily information
- Generate reporting on specific trucks
- Driver Safety Reports
- Driver Behavior Reports
- Driver Scorecards
- Vehicle and asset utilization reports
Plumbing contractors face tremendous pressure to retain existing customers and grow their business. Regardless of size, these field service businesses must establish and maintain an excellent reputation for service that includes on-time arrival, verification of completed jobs, and workflow steps that reduce friction.
GPS vehicle- and video-based fleet management systems can be a powerful tool to serve these efforts by enhancing customer service and productivity. These days, customers expect proficiency with technology.
According to a survey in Plumbing & Mechanical, 79% of customers want a tech-savvy plumber.
Fleet tracking raises awareness of the location and use of company assets. It helps these businesses reduce operating costs such as fuel (including idling), time waste, and theft of company resources. GPS vehicle data can be integrated with back-office systems to improve invoicing and billing.
Entry-level video systems help companies avoid costly legal outcomes. Adding in-cab video cameras with camera vision, machine learning, and other AI features provide an even higher level of intelligence around fleet operations. They watch the road ahead for objects and the driver to monitor distracted behaviors such as cellphone use, drowsiness, smoking, or eating.
The Lure of OEM Telematics
Field service businesses purchase their vehicles from local automotive dealers, and they often rely on these same dealers to help them equip the vehicle for duty.
Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (Ram) maintain a robust network of dealerships that include specialized commercial dealers to help small and mid-size businesses acquire vans and trucks. They offer bailment pools – clusters of vehicles set aside near their factories that have been equipped with the most common auxiliary equipment for certain industries.
The manufacturer dealers help businesses source commercial-spec vehicles, such as chassis cabs, as well as work truck bodies, racks and bins, and in some cases telematics systems.
How Telematics Helps You Provide Superior Customer Service
Plumbing businesses typically have low brand awareness among new customers, but their online reputations via user reviews remain the lifeblood of business.
About 57% of customers said they would only use a home services business unless it had four stars or higher on local reviews, according to BrightLocal.
About 80% of customers said they checked local reviews before hiring a field service company, according to Plumbing Perspective.
Each of the OEMs offers its own telematics system that provides track-and-trace features. Some of the telematics systems are offered as private-label, off-the-shelf solutions supplied by the larger telematics providers.
It can seem convenient to add an OEM telematics system during the ordering process, but this can be a pitfall because the OEM systems are often more limited than what you can find in the aftermarket. And purchasing it from a dealer will likely result in a higher cost.
OEMs are often more interested in collecting the data for their own programs, while telematics service providers focus on baking in features designed for field service businesses.
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Service Fleet Tracking for the Real World
Get the real-time, accurate information you need to run your fleet and your business.
Quickly Locate Your Vehicles. With real-time tracking information, you’ll know exactly where your vehicle has been and where they are right now, making ETAs simple.
Cut Labor Costs up to 35%. Take the guesswork out of timesheets, cut down on overtime, and get a more accurate picture of your labor costs.
Stop Moonlighting and Theft. With after-hours alerts and simple asset tracking features, you’ll know if your vehicles are being used when they shouldn’t and quickly locate stolen vehicles.
Service Source Retains Drivers & Lowers Payroll Cost
For twenty-four years, Bill Rodgers has managed the Service Source fleet, providing custodial and maintenance services for a wide range of customers, serving 25,000 individuals with disabilities nationwide through employment, training, and housing.
Superior Pool Service Improves Productivity
Superior Pool Service started with one man and a truck helping customers keep their pools clean and working correctly. With over 500 customers to serve each week, Fleet Manager Elizabeth Donald must keep her service technicians and their fleet vehicles working smoothly.
Stay Alert Changes Driver Behavior
Stay Alert rents and sells the large lighted traffic signs placed on the side of the road that may indicate Left Turn Ahead, Bridge Closed, or Road Closed. They rely on GPS Trackit to track and coordinate 145 trucks and hundreds of those traffic signs on trailers.
