Fleet management for the 21st Century Such simple-to-use systems already exist and are available for fleets. One is even made in British Columbia by a company called Neroglobal Tracking. Their web-based tracking system can give operations managers and dispatchers realtime, useable information about every vehicle in their fleet.
Imagine reducing your vehicle fleet’s fuel costs and managing it more efficiently – all at no real cost to your organization. Add to that the ability to get more up time from your team, and also to improve your maintenance scheduling. It sounds like a tall order, but it’s not just wishful thinking. All these things can happen if your dispatchers switch to a GPS Fleet Management System. Most of us are familiar with GPS navigation systems in new vehicles. They’re powerful tools that use satellites to tell drivers where they are, and how to get where they are going. However, imagine if this technology was adapted and combined with an advanced software application. The result could allow fleet managers to track their vehicles on-line and see where they are and what they are doing at any given moment.
Knowledge is power – and savings Using a GPS Tracking system, you can track up to 100 vehicles in your fleet from your computer screen. The software can let you see where your vehicles are, on a map, or on Google Earth photos. It will tell you how long they’ve been where they are, and where they are headed. It will even tell you how fast they are traveling. That gives your fleet managers the knowledge and power to get more work done in a day. Dispatchers can plan routes more efficiently. They can see how long each driver is spending at a job. And, because the GPS system automatically tracks mileage, they’ll even be told when a vehicle is due up for maintenance. So they can take better care of company assets. As a number of Neroglobal customers will attest, that all translates into real savings. Joel Carter, the operations manager at Roto Router in Vancouver says, “We cut our gas bills
