Be able to make a shorter route for the truck drivers and prevent your vehicles from misuse or from other activities that will cost your money, use GPS trucking to
- Monitor driving behavior – if your drivers have bad driving behavior you have a problem not just for the sake of your vehicle like hard braking, rapid acceleration, speeding. You have to be aware for the Safety report of your company which is the most important for your company feature. Monitor your entire fleet of vehicles have a real-time tracking device and you will be able to supervise your truck drivers speed in a real time and have location updates every second.
- Set a specific parameters in advance and have red flags from the system when this parameters are broken
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- Have a detailed reports to know where your vehicle has been or where it’s headed and how fast it travels
- Better customer service – Make sure that your customers get the best possible service – make accurate estimates of arrival and departure times, having a real time info for the arrival of the load and delivery time is very important for your clients (being in the production industry is hard if you have a limited source or not have needed supplies for production at all)
- Better routing and dispatching – GPS tracking provide you with better routing and dispatching and that reduce the road time and fuel usage
- Some of the best GPS vehicle tracking systems have mapping features that allows you hybrid street/satellite views, zooming the way down to street level and also opportunity to get real-time traffic info, this features will help your driver to save time and fuel
In short version advantage of having a GPS trucking systems are:
- complete control over your fleet
- when customers call to ask where your truck is, in few second you can see the actual position of your vehicles
- you can alert your driver’s if their speed is too high
- no more updates in the vehicle log-book, with the automatic updates in the GPS software base you just need to submit and print to get a correct information’s about your truckers route
- no more calls to your drivers for location status update
- your driver does not need to answer phones while driving
- reduce cost and improve productivity
- GPS tracking software is your virtual ride-along
Your GPS system will track all starts and stops of the trucks or operating for extended driving periods or broken limited speed regulations, most off all your efficient service will keep your current customers happy, every new satisfied customer can be your future referral, keep your customers happy and they will be more likely to recommend you.
Tip #2: Use Fuel Card for fuel purchases to make sure you are paying the fuel on cheapest truck stops/gas stations.
When your drivers are out on the road, how do they pay for fuel?
- commercial credit cards
- cash …
Having a fuel card makes this process simple. With fuel card you have lower fuel price of actual pump price and this can help you with company expense budgeting. With low price for load and high price for fuel you have to make sure to receive the cheapest fuel for your business, so find the right discount fuel card for you.
