When you have a fleet of vehicles, no matter how big or small, it is important to track your assets and those people driving them. These people are representing your company and driving your vans that are often displaying your brand. You need to ensure they are being driven professionally.
Failing to do so could end up harming your brand image.
Driving Behaviour
By running a simple report you can bring up stats relating to driving behaviour. Most GPS systems will allow you to monitor the vehicle’s speed and cornering. If one of your employee’s is driving erratically, you will know about it.
Dropapin has a playback feature so you can re-run journeys that your employees have made. You might find that they approached a roundabout at 40mph, obviously too fast. You can use the playback feature to prove this.
Damage
Bad driving doesn’t just damage your brand image, it also damages the vehicles themselves. Vehicles are designed to be driven at the appropriate speed limits and braking distances. If one of your drivers consistently brakes harshly because they are going too fast, this will damage the brakes system over time and incur repair costs to the company sooner than expected.
As soon as a GPS tracking system is put in place on all vehicles, you will notice most of your staff will instantly change their driving behaviour for the good.
Routes
See the routes that your employees are taking – Are these the routes they should be taking? Are they wasting time by taking a longer route? Or are they risking damage to a vehicle by driving down narrow streets with poor terrain?
Idling
Using the idling data, you are able to identify how long a vehicle is in an ‘idle’ state. Reducing idling time will help save fuel costs. Especially for heavy-duty trucks which typically consume lots of fuel when idle.
Final Thoughts
Thank you for taking the time to read this article. We hope you now have a better understanding of how you could be using GPS reporting to manage your fleet of vehicles. If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed in this article, please do not hesitate to get in touch via email: hello@softwaresellonline.co.uk
