- The trucks are maintained on time
- The trucks are protected from fuel theft
- The truck driver is performing safe transportation
An interesting fact is that many of the insurance companies will offer you discount if you have real time fleet tracking installed on the trucks.
Control Over The Truck At Any Time
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Beside the location with the GPS Tracking system you can also:
- Control the electronic equipment on the trucks
- Control the ignition
- Control the doors (open/close)
- Monitoring the usage of the hydraulic equipment
- Improve the security of the trucks
Connection Of The Loads
Another benefit of GPS Tracking is the possibility to connect the loads. When your dispatchers have the exact location of each truck they will be able to contact the truck driver that is near the client who needs transportation.
Imagine this you have 50 trucks and they are all driving across the state and today you have a new load that needs to be picked up from one location, how you will solve this without the help of the real time fleet tracking?
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You’ll contact the drivers that pass across that location tell them to pick the load. There is a possibility the closest truck to that location to go and pick the load and short time after, another company truck go to the same location to pick up the same load. In this case, the second truck spends fuel for no reason and wasted precious time.
What would the client think when he will see the second truck from the same trucking company asking for the load that was already picked before. I would be suspicious of the quality of that trucking company. We all know that miscommunication between the truck drivers is not something new.
On the other hand, you have the information of the real time fleet tracking and have the exact location of each truck. What will you do now? You simply contact only the truck driver that is closest to the pickup location. That’s it, you are done.
