FleetTracker

A new website, HGVUK.com, has been launched to provide news from the UK road haulage industry, as well as news from around Europe. The site is researched, written and designed by a team of dedicated professionals with a passion for road transport and is updated daily with the latest news.

F or a limited time, FleetMatics is offering GPS tracking on up to 10 of your vehicles for a full three months at no cost.

All you have to do is sign up for the FleetMatics GPS Vehicle Tracking Solution, and we’ll give you an additional 3 months of tracking for up to 10 vehicles. No Strings!

We can only do this for a short time period so you better act quickly. Check itout for yourself how  how FleetMatics GPS fleet tracking boosts profits with an online demonstration of our system on a live working fleet.

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NAFA Fleet Management Association recently published its Fleet Maintenance Operations Guide, a resource that helps fleet managers improve vehicle maintenance and related issues.

Topics covered in the guide include preventive maintenance, warranty operations, shop operations, environmental issues, inventory management, benchmarking performance, outsourcing and staffing.

The Fuel Management Guide is available as an e-download or on CD.

There is yet another way that GPS tracking increases production and efficiency. It is called the Observer or Hawthorne Effect and it is based on a study done of workers from 1924 to 1932. Changes were made in the work place environment that were both positive and negative. No matter what changes were done, productivity increased. This led to the belief that workers when observed produced better. In a similar fashion, GPS tracking enables fleet manager to observe drivers, dispatchers, etc. Knowing that they are being observed improves production. Whether this is done out of pride or care or even fear is irrelevant. The fact is that empowering managers with GPS tracking tools puts them in a position to control their network. Greater efficiencies, streamlined production are the result.

Of course the best GPS Fleet Tracking tools come from FleetMatics!

FleetMatics now insists that its installation staff achieve FCS Installer Training and Accreditation Scheme (FITAS) accreditation offered through the Federation of Communication Services (FCS).

As a leader in GPS vehicle tracking, FleetMatics continually strives to improve its products and services, including equipment installation. FITAS accreditation ensures clients that FleetMatics technicians have the high level of expertise, knowledge and skill needed to provide quality installations of its GPS tracking units and related hardware.

FleetMatics has also become a FITAS Patron in order to support and participate in the development of the scheme. As a FITAS Patron, FleetMatics continues to show its commitment toward excellence in service and support.

It is not just a matter of trust to know what is happening with each vehicle in your fleet. It is a matter of responsibility to know to the moment the status of each vehicle. Even if your crew is the most responsible and trustworthy on the planet, monitoring your vehicles is key to your bottom-line. How is this so? Let’s take a look!

How do you feel when you are in control? Pretty good, no? And when things go out of control, they become chaos, right? Truly then,unless you have GPS fleet tracking, your fleet has never been under control. You don’t know exactly where your vehicles are at all times. You don’t know if your drivers speed. You don’t know how long your vehicles idle, wasting fuel.You don’t know how much your vehicles are being used for personal business. All this affects your bottom-line big time and is costing you thousands and thousands of dollars.

However, the moment you install GPS fleet tracking you can breathe a sigh of relief because all of the information above is at your fingertips and you are in control. Your are in the drivers seat because you can control your fleet.

Jeremy Wilson, Operations Director, Simmonds Transport told us, “We have saved over £48,000 in Diesel costs and £25,000 in wage costs in our first year with FleetMatics.”

And Rod Smith, Managing Director IT, RBS Groundworks Ltd. said, “In our first year with FleetMatics, we saved over £25,000 in overtime costs. We also saw tremendous savings of £18,000 in petrol costs.”

It’s time to go FleetMatics!