Fleet Management for Your HVAC Business
Increase Productivity and Reduce Expenses
- Complete more service calls each week
- Reduce maintenance costs
- Reduce fuel costs due to 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 HVAC 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 HVAC 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
How can HVAC companies improve their business results from telematics systems?
● Improving customer service with accurate ETAs
● Enhancing productivity with technicians that stay on task
● Verifying technician performance at job sites
● Reducing operating costs and waste (including fuel)
● Implementing a preventive maintenance schedule
● Improving safe driving
While HVAC companies have been using these approaches over at least the past decade, these field service businesses have more recently more rapidly adopted video telematics to better manage risky driving and protect themselves from so-called “nuclear” jury verdicts against them.
Video telematics systems add an additional layer of defense to your risk management plan because they provide context around risky driving and help provide bulletproof evidence of who’s at fault during a collision. Studies have shown that passenger vehicles are at fault about 80% of the time during truck accidents.
The Importance of Gathering Data
Telematics systems provide a tremendous amount of operational data, so it’s important to gain clarity around what you’ll collect and how you’ll manage it.
Telematics devices typically collect three kinds of data – vehicle location, diagnostics such as engine idling or maintenance alerts, and driver behavior such as speeding via sensors or video cameras.
Pro tip: Set KPI metrics so you can track improvement around specific goals.
Data that provides locational awareness keeps technicians on route to their job sites and reduces inappropriate use such as taking vehicles to out-of-policy locations, moonlighting for ride-hailing, running personal errands, or parking in dangerous neighborhoods.
Diagnostic and other engine data helps fleet managers set up and follow a preventive maintenance schedule, and deal with maintenance issues before a catastrophic system failure. This data can also be used to reduce excessive idling and other fuel-wasting behaviors.
In our latest eBook… How HVAC Contractors Benefit from GPS Tracking and Video. Learn more about how video dash cams can improve your productivity.
Service Source
Payroll Story
For twenty-four years, Bill Rodgers has managed the Service Source fleet, providing custodial and maintenance services for local businesses, government entities, and non-profits. Service Source serves more than 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 each day.
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.
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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.
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GPS stands for Global Positioning System. The technology was introduced by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) exclusively for military operations. Back in the 1970’s, GPS technology was used heavily by the armed forces to navigate using radio frequency waves. However, a few years later, the DOD decided to open up the technology for civilian usage. At present, the commercial applications of GPS tracking are many. GPS fleet tracking, specifically, enables fleet managers to locate, track, and monitor their fleet of vehicles on a real-time basis.
AA GPS antenna is connected to a GPS Trackit unit with a lead wire or plug and play device to the object (vehicle, trailer, or asset) to be tracked. Using the antenna, the GPS Trackit software transmits the trilateral satellite location data to the unit. This unit can detect and process events like hard braking, hard turning, and the crossing of specified speed thresholds. This information is relayed to GPS Trackit’s secure servers, where it is processed and delivered to authorized parties (dispatchers, fleet managers, etc.). This enables authorized users to view events and locate vehicles, trailers, and other assets in real-time (and on any device) with the fleet management dashboard.
Fleet management software provides a solution to easily automate daily operational processes in order to save time and reduce costs. It compiles information from your entire fleet on one screen and generates customized reports that empower your business decisions. If you’d like to know more about GPS Trackit’s fleet management solution, take a look at our Fleet Management section.
Finding the right GPS fleet tracking solution that’s the perfect fit for your business can be tough. That’s where GPS Trackit comes in. From award-winning solutions that give you instant ROI to a low monthly price with no contracts, we aim to make fleet management easy. With GPS Trackit, you can get:
- An award-winning fleet management solution package that’s fully scalable to the needs of your business
- A 30-day money-back guarantee
- GPS hardware included in your package
- Live, personalized training and 24/7 expert support
- All for one low monthly price!
Fleet management is a detail-packed job for managers and drivers alike. It’s crucial to log data such as hours, fuel used, and job progress throughout the day, every day. However, keeping track of all these details can suck up valuable time and money.
This is why fleet management software is so useful. With the right system, managers can know where their fleet is at all times. They can easily learn more about each vehicle’s location and fuel use at a moment’s notice, even tracking driving habits like speeding and harsh braking as well. Drivers can also rest easy knowing that their data is automatically logged.
Additional Information: GPS Tracking and Fleet Management: Do You Really Need It?
Although at first fleet management software was viewed as a “Big Brother” style intrusion into the lives of drivers, it has now become the industry standard and something most drivers will be used to. Using GPS tracking and fleet management software increases safety, allows for incentivizing great drivers, and increases visibility for both drivers and back-office staff.
solutions often pay for themselves within 30 days. Fleet tracking and video monitoring solutions are proven to cut labor costs, increase MPG, decrease fuel waste, improve productivity, reduce accident risks, improve driver behaviors, and much more. Click here to learn more about savings with fleet management.
