FleetTracker

Easier payroll and lower insurance costs

Larry Jaffe — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:41:33 +0000

GPS fleet vehicle tracking saved McEnany Roofing about $300,000. FleetMatics GPS tracking provides a sure-fire, cost-effective way to manage your entire fleet via the Internet. In addition to reduced costs and increased productivity, GPS vehicle tracking also helped McEnany Roofing decrease their insurance, which essentially paid for the GPS system by ten-fold.

GPS Fleet Tracking Reports Keep You in the Know

Larry Jaffe — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:33:02 +0000

Let’s check out some of the reports FleetMatics supplies to help you streamline your operation, improve your efficiency and increase your profits.

Daily Report

The Daily Report provides information on the daily movement of any vehicle. Data includes: ignition on-time, ignition off-time, arrival and departure of locations, idling time, drive time, and distance travelled. Use this report to detect improper vehicle usage, problematic driving behaviors and actual working hours on any given day for a specific vehicle.

Detailed Report

The Detailed Report provides the minute-by-minute GPS location of any vehicle. Data includes: location of vehicle throughout the entire day, engine-on times, idling time, drive time, distance travelled and costs of operating vehicle. Use this report to detect inefficient routing, pinpoint exact vehicle locations throughout the day and investigate questionable driving times.

Idling Report

The Idling Report provides true idling times (when ignition is on and vehicle is not moving) for every vehicle in your fleet. Data includes: idle start and stop times, location of idling, total idling time and alerts when idle times exceed threshold. Use this report to minimize idle times, reduce fuel usage, improve routing and decrease engine wear.

Hours Worked Report

The Hours Worked Report provides information on actual hours a vehicle is in operation and can be used as an electronic timesheet. Data includes: daily actual start and finish times, hours worked, days worked, average daily hours and weekly totals. Use this report to record accurate work hours, improve back office efficiencies and eliminate payroll disputes.

Red Flag Report

The Red Flag Report allows you to instantly recognize when and where a vehicle has exceeded a specified speed threshold. Data includes: date, time and location of occurrence, along with exact speed travelled. Use this report to detect problematic driving behavior, improve safety and reduce liability.

Location Report

This report provides information on how long your vehicles spend at a specified point of interest (POI). Data includes: identity of vehicle at POI, arrival time, departure time and alerts when time spent at any POI exceeds threshold. Use this GPS report to increase productivity, tighten controls and implement best management practices.

State Mileage Report

The Fleet State Mileage Report provides GPS information on the total mileage driven by state for each vehicle. Data includes: miles driven by state, non-toll and toll miles driven by state and total miles driven. Use this report to reduce paperwork, increase overall efficiencies and streamline back office accounting operations.

Activity Report

The Vehicle Activity Report provides information on each vehicle’s performance within a specified date range and compares the data against operating costs. Data includes: total mileage, cost per mile, cost per hour and total operating costs per day. Use this report to determine ROI of every vehicle, identify inefficient drivers and vehicles, and improve overall efficiencies.

Customer System Usage Report

Monitor system usage by user including logins and reports run.

Fleet Summary Report

The Fleet Summary Report provides a complete overview of your fleet with totals by vehicle activity. Data includes: total idling time, total drive time, total distance travelled and total engine on-time. Use this report to gain a clear picture of your overall fleet performance as determined by the activities of each vehicle.

Let’s check out some of the reports FleetMatics supplies to help you streamline your operation, improve your efficiency and increase your profits.

Daily Report

Detailed Report

Idling Report

Hours Worked Report

Red Flag Report

Location Report

State Mileage Report

Activity Report

Customer System Usage Report

Monitor system usage by user including logins and reports run.

Fleet Summary Report

GPS fleet vehicle tracking increases productivity and reduce costs

Larry Jaffe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:49 +0000

GPS fleet vehicle tracking to increases productivity and reduces costs for your business. Mark Slater, CEO of Turner Pest Control, talks about how FleetMatics GPS tracking helped his business survive and thrive despite the economy. GPS vehicle tracking helped Slater by increasing billable hours, reducing fuel costs, improving customer service and decreasing overall fleet costs.

Reporting is the key to great GPS Fleet Tracking

Larry Jaffe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:31:02 +0000

Most fleet GPS tracking devices look alike, they often sound alike and act alike. The difference is GPS fleet tracking systems is not so much the data that is obtained but how usable that data is. FleetMatics sets itself apart from other systems in a number of areas but the top of the list is reporting. This is where all that data becomes functional and helps an organization become more profitable right from the installation.

GPS Management Reports

The FleetMatics GPS Reporting Suite includes a variety of powerful management tools you can use to accurately control and monitor your vehicle fleet.You specify acceptable threshold limits when tracking your vehicles with GPS including work hours, idling times, speed and mileage. All exceptions to these limits are flagged throughout the reporting suite allowing you to instantly identify and rectify inefficiencies.The management reports can be run on the fly or scheduled to run automatically with the results emailed to any number of recipients on a daily or weekly basis.With the FleetMatics Reporting Suite, you gain complete control of the management and costs of your fleet.

GPS Management Reports

GPS Fleet Tracking Improves Bottom-Line by 7%

Larry Jaffe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:30:58 +0000

In the current economic conditions, its more important than ever to have a tight hold of your business. FleetMatics GPS fleet vehicle tracking has helped Hobbs Office Supplies to do just that. FleetMatics GPS tracking provides a sure-fire, cost-effective way to manage your entire fleet via the Internet. Hobbs Office Supplies has increased their call ratio by approximately 1 to 2 per day which in turn has increased productivity. This has had a direct impact on their bottom line of approximately 7 percent.

Are Fleet GPS Tracking Systems Indispensable to Fleet Managers?

Larry Jaffe — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:25:13 +0000

Given our economic climate, anything that can give your company an edge should be jumped on right away, and it seems like fleet managers have seen the light and incorporating fleet GPS tracking. It makes sense as this is one of the few areas that ROI is close to immediate. Plus fleet tracking makes life much easier for managers and dispatchers in several ways.

Fleet managers are empowered to monitor their vehicles on an immediate basis. This is real-time monitoring folks and worth every penny, because the information provided is indispensable. You can follow each vehicle, know where they are at any given moment, know how many stops they made, and even help your drivers get through traffic problems. Fleet GPS tracking streamlines the entire process, and cuts way down on unprofitable wait and idle times. You will also be alerted, should employees use their vehicles for other than the stated purpose, i.e. personal use.

The savings in fuel and maintenance are substantial, companies like FleetMatics provide precision reporting so you know when each vehicle is due in for service.

Yes Fleet GPS Tracking is indispensable for fleet managers!

Minimize Disputes with Fleet GPS Tracking

Larry Jaffe — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:11:45 +0000

Just imagine a dispute free day. No angry phone calls from customers wondering where your crew/driver is. Your Customer Service Reps are ecstatic since they no exactly where your guys are can easily relate location and estimated arrivals with a precision they never had. No upset feelings with your drivers as they are guided through traffic barriers. Your dispatcher is no longer chewing on Tums, he wears smiles instead of frowns. You finance guy is not pulling his hair out as hours and fuel are unpredictably low (less overtime, for example).

All this comes about with the simple installation of Fleet GPS Tracking!

Here’s how it works. Fleet GPS tracking monitors your vehicle activity and records everything from location to precise time the vehicle arrived, how long there and when departed. If you are in the service industry, this helps with billing as you know how long your crew was at any given location. In other words you have an accurate tracking system recording date, location and time. No guess work, no estimates, just a precise report. Should a customer complaint come in you have irrefutable proof to handle it.

For freight haulers, once again GPS Fleet tracking comes to the rescue as you can prove when your truck arrived at a given location, should any claims be submitted. Of course, this should help your insurance bills.

Fleet GPS Tracking takes care of business – yours and your customers. One the most highly evolved systems comes from FleetMatics, test drive it today!

Is Your Insurance Company Giving You a Break?

Larry Jaffe — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:54:51 +0000

While you are busy streamlining your operation with Fleet GPS Tracking, you might see some other cost reductions coming down the pike. I am talking insurance, than necessary but costly expense right out of your bottom-line. That’s right, many insurance companies give you a break if you are riding with GPS. Many insurance providers are offering companies that install a tracking system into their vehicle a significant discount of up to 30%. Many insurance providers realize that vehicle tracking increases the security of vehicles and allows fleet managers to ensure that their employees drive responsibly.

Another advantage of vehicle tracking is that it can help to rapidly settle insurance claim disputes. Since the tracking keeps an accurate travel record of each vehicle, it is usable as evidence when making or defending claims. This can keep rates down as well as you can defend yourself against arbitrary increased premiums.

Test drive the FleetMatics system and watch your costs go down.

Minimize Disputes with Fleet GPS Tracking

Larry Jaffe — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:28:03 +0000

All this comes about with the simple installation of Fleet GPS Tracking!

Fleet GPS Tracking takes care of business – yours and your customers. One the most highly evolved systems comes from FleetMatics, test drive it today!

The Ultimate Tracking Tool

Larry Jaffe — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:05:40 +0000

Some of you may be familiar with GPS devices. You know those pieces of technology that accurately tell you where you are thanks to satellites in the sky determining your location. But are you aware of GPS tracking for fleets. That’s right if you have a few vehicles or a few hundred vehicles, Fleet GPS tracking is the one tool you cannot be without. With this technology, you can pinpoint the location of each of your vehicles, get precise timing of shipments and deliveries or service calls and keep your drivers and crew under your steady eye.

If you run a crew of electricians, roofers, construction workers, any type of trace that you have on the road you can benefit from this incredible technology. It is simple to install and use. You can access through the Internet so no matter where you are you can monitor your crew. You will see a rapid return on your investment, as your business becomes more and more profitable. And it happens right away.

You will see an almost instant upturn in productivity, and reduced overtime and fuel expenses and even insurance costs are lower. Since you are monitoring driver speed, there is an improvement in safety (speeding is virtually eliminated) and thus accidents are fewer. When drivers know they are being monitored they pay more attention to the road.

Your customers are pleased because they know accurately when they will receive their shipment or service call. Fleet GPS tracking will reduce your stress level and make everyone’s job easier from management to driver.

Road test the FleetMatics GPS System today!