FIVE WAYS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR FLEET WITH GPS TRACKING

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1 FIVE WAYS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR FLEET WITH GPS TRACKING

2 CONTENTS Why optimize your fleet 3 How can a GPS Tracking Solution help 4 Reduce Fuel Costs 5 Improve Driver Behavior 7 Increase Security & Safety 8 Improve Routing & Dispatching 9 Increase Productivity 11 Explaining Fleet Tracking to Employees 12

3 WHY OPTIMIZE YOUR FLEET? Businesses are always looking for ways to reduce operational costs! If you are in the service, delivery, distribution, or transportation industries, chances are that your fleet of vehicles and the drivers in charge of those vehicles are the most important assets to your business success. Optimizing your fleet is one of the keys to help maximize your success and revenue. INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE SECURITY & SAFETY REDUCE FUEL COSTS IMPROVE DRIVER BEHAVIOR IMPROVE ROUTING & DISPATCHING

4 HOW CAN A GPS TRACKING SOLUTION HELP? Businesses that rely on fleet vehicles to provide products and services to their clients can experience tangible financial benefits with GPS fleet tracking. GPS tracking essentially puts you in the passenger seat of every truck in your fleet. By tracking your vehicles, you can gain control over your fleet by having visibility of your vehicles, helping to reduce your costs and improve productivity.

5 1 REDUCE FUEL COSTS SPEEDING According to the US Department of Energy, Gas mileage generally decreases above 50 mph. You can assume that each 5 mph you drive over 50 mph is like paying an additional $0.14 per gallon for gas. Maintaining proper speeds can help significantly reduce the amount of fuel used by your trucks. A vehicle tracking solution provides speed information and you set up alerts that you receive when your vehicles exceed set speed thresholds. +$0.14 Per Gallon of Gas $0.28 Per Gallon of Gas $0.42 Per Gallon of Gas $0.56 Per Gallon of Gas 10 THE COST OF SPEEDING $0.70 Per Gallon of Gas +$0.84 Per Gallon of Gas 0

6 IDLING GPS tracking can help reduce idling times by alerting you when vehicles idle longer than the duration of time you have determined is too much so you can take corrective action. Look at how fast idling costs can add up: $50,000 $10,000 $5,000 $1,000 $500 $100 $0 DAILY $0 $100 $500 $1,000 $5,000 $10,000 $50,000 $ IDLING FUEL COSTS 5 $10.65 $ VS 25 $53.25 $ $ TRANSIT VAN SEMI-TRUCK MONTHLY $ IDLING FUEL COSTS 5 $ $1, $1, $2, VS 50 $3, TRANSIT VAN SEMI-TRUCK YEARLY $2, IDLING FUEL COSTS 5 $3, $14, $19, $28, VS 50 $38, TRANSIT VAN SEMI-TRUCK $50,000 $10,000 $5,000 $1,000 $500 $100 $0 $0 $100 $500 $1,000 $5,000 $10,000 $50,000 A Transit Van will consume around 0.75 gallons of fuel per hour. A semi-truck will consume around 1 gallon of diesel fuel per hour. Average US price of gasoline $2.07 and Diesel $2.13 as of 4/18/16. FUEL MONITORING With a fleet tracking system, you have the ability to integrate your fuel cards with the software. Powerful reporting tools and real-time data will give you visibility into your fuel spend. Reliable fuel transaction information helps you to track MPG, pinpoint causes of high fuel consumption, eliminate fuel leakage, enforce fuel-saving driving habits, and ultimately reduce your overall fuel costs.

7 2 IMPROVE DRIVER BEHAVIOR In order to work towards optimizing your fleet, you need to be sure that the employees driving those vehicles are not misusing them. Unauthorized vehicle use and improper driver behavior are major contributors to high fleet costs. DRIVER BEHAVIOR GPS vehicle tracking can relay a variety of information regarding driving behavior including vehicle speed, engine start-up and shut-down and idling time. This information can be used to help enforce a driving policy and curb unwanted behavior like excessive speeding, tardiness and extended vehicle idling. ACCURATE TIMESHEETS GPS tracking solutions can also provide the ability to automate timesheets. If an employee has a tracked vehicle, you can know exactly when an employee starts work, how long they take for lunches and breaks, and when they stop working for the day without having to rely on manual timesheets. Verifiable timesheets can help streamline your payroll processes and help you avoid paying excessive overtime due to timesheet falsification and unintentional errors.

8 3 INCREASE SECURITY & SAFETY VEHICLE THEFT In the event a tracked vehicle is stolen, a hidden GPS receiver can help you recover it and any onboard equipment. In addition, a system can alert owners if a vehicle is used during off-hours. ROUTINE MAINTENANCE There are also alerting functions to let you know when vehicles are due for routine maintenance. Proper maintenance helps ensure that your vehicles are compliant with safety guidelines and can help reduce repair costs in the long run. You can set these alerts to be mileage or calendar based. F USING RECOMMENDED GRADE OF MOTOR OIL 10% 1-2 % 3.4 % KEEPING TIRES PROPERLY ENFLATED 5% 4 % 10 % Save close to 10% on fuel costs when your fleet is regularly maintained 0% E KEEPING ENGINE PROPERLY TUNED

9 4 IMPROVE ROUTING & DISPATCHING GET TO CUSTOMERS FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENTLY With proper mapping software, fleet owners know the location of every fleet vehicle. This gives dispatchers the ability to effectively direct drivers to any job site. Also, you re provided with current traffic conditions so you can divert drivers around delays when possible.

10 PROOF OF SERVICE Determine when a vehicle arrived on a job and when it left, providing verifiable proof of services. BEST ROUTES You can locate and dispatch the closest vehicle to any job site and set up alerts so fleet managers know if drivers use the vehicles for unauthorized journeys or purposely take extended routes to job sites. This helps reduce fuel usage, reduce vehicle mileage and increase the number of jobs completed in a day.

11 5 INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY GPS tracking solutions allow you to automate concise and easy to understand reports on a weekly or monthly basis. In addition, you have the ability to generate reports on demand. ORGANIZED DATA The data can be organized to give you information about daily vehicle activity, speeding violations, violations of company driving policy, a complete list of vehicle starts and stops, idling times and much more. ALERTS Alerting features can notify you of unwanted behavior. Alerts can also be triggered for speeding over 80 miles per hour, idling, engine start-up or shut-down during off-hours, unauthorized vehicle usage and when a vehicle enters or exits specific geographic areas. You just choose the alerts you want to receive.

12 HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN FLEET TRACKING TO YOUR EMPLOYEES Once you ve decided to track your vehicles, it s important to get your drivers and staff on board for the program. GPS vehicle tracking is a way to reward hard work and eliminate bad habits that can lead to serious financial loss. LET YOUR DRIVERS KNOW THAT VEHICLE TRACKING HELPS: Provide an important safety function for your business and the drivers as well Allow you to keep up with proper vehicle maintenance and keep vehicles safe on the road Allow you to recover any stolen vehicles more quickly Improve customer service Protect drivers against false complaints about overcharges and services not rendered Provide numerous benefits that help increase revenue, which adds to a company s financial stability and provides drivers with job security

13 To sum it up, optimizing your fleet can be easy once you implement a GPS fleet tracking system! Reduced Fuel Costs Improved Driver Behavior Increased Security and Safety Improved Routing and Dispatching Improved Productivity with the help of Reports and Alerts Book a free online demonstration today. About Fleetmatics Group PLC Fleetmatics Group PLC is a leading global provider of mobile workforce solutions for service-based businesses of all sizes delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS). Our solutions enable businesses to meet the challenges associated with managing local fleets, and improve the productivity of their mobile workforces, by extracting actionable business intelligence from real-time and historical vehicle and driver behavioral data NA Copyright 2016 Fleetmatics Development Limited. All rights reserved. Fleetmatics and the Fleetmatics Logo are registered trademarks of Fleetmatics Development Limited in the U.S. and other countries.