Tips For Tracking Your Trucks
It’s tough to be in the trucking business. Operating margins are low, driver turnover is high, and runaway fuel costs are a source of daily frustration. With more than 26 million trucks in the U.S. market, experts estimate vehicle idling consumes a total of 960 million gallons of diesel fuel each year, which translates to billions of wasted dollars for the industry.
What to do? Enter the world of telematics, vehicle tracking systems.
While the most frequent reason for getting a fleet vehicle tracking system is to enhance driver productivity, it also can increase efficiency in other ways, such as by giving vehicle dispatchers better information on driver location and helping them better assign routes. Together this can help further reduce fleet costs.
Dude, where’s my truck?
Fleet control is a real-time information system providing services to back-office and management of transportation companies. A company may put a tracker in its vehicles, allowing the staff to know if a vehicle is on time running late, or is doing its assigned route.
Track Your Truck, which provides vehicle tracking service units at $299 (plus a monthly cost of $19.99 per month), says vehicle tracking not only helps accurately predict arrival times, but also helps retain profits by serving more customers quickly, using fewer vehicles per workload, reducing fuel consumption as well as wear and tear on fleet vehicles and eliminating excessive idle time. It also helps eliminate unauthorized vehicle use on the clock or after-hours.
GPS Trackit echoes these benefits, adding that tracking systems help lower insurance rates by up to 35 percent because many insurance companies offer discounted premiums if a vehicle has a real-time GPS. With accurate fleet vehicle data for profit/loss analysis, accountability and budget preparation, businesses can rapidly make decisions to achieve lower costs. GPS Trackit’s online ROI calculator helps reveal anticipated fleet vehicle cost savings.
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