Additional Benefits of Vehicle Tracking

There are six top benefits to vehicle tracking.  You have lower fuel costs, planning efficient routes, and customer service and communication for three of them.  Additionally you have the benefit of keeping track of your staff, discounts on insurance, and improved mileage claims and time sheet reporting.  Within these six benefits there are more benefits your company may find with the vehicle tracking system.  Several of these benefits will actually link together.

For example, lower fuel costs link with keeping tabs on what your drivers are doing.  When you monitor your drivers you know their location, their speed, the time they will arrive at their home or the customer’s home, when they were on duty or off, and how far they have driven.  Right there you have the ability to find lower fuel costs, offer a better route, better customer service, and better reports for their time on the clock.  As you can see, one benefit tends to link to all of the other benefits the vehicle tracking can offer.

Let’s take a closer look at monitoring your employees.  A vehicle tracking system tells you when the car or truck is on the move.  It tells you the location of your driver and whether they are abusing certain things.  You also have an option of monitoring your employees with personal devices.  These devices can be part of the phone or badge they carry for work.  Not only can you monitor them in the car, but also while they are in the home or business of a client.

Mileage and time sheet reporting used to be done by the driver.  The driver had paper they had to fill out regarding their stops, the time spent at a stop, drive time, and the mileage they used.  In the past this information could be padded a little by the employee wishing to get a little extra cash.  This takes away from the profit you can make in a company.  With vehicle tracking you no longer have to worry about that.  You know when the driver leaves the bay, the distance and route they took, as well as the time spent at the client location.  You also know when they are off the clock or when they make an unscheduled stop that is not business related.

Lastly by monitoring your drivers you can obtain insurance discounts.  By lowering the risk to your drivers and the vehicles you can save on insurance.  How this works is that you know what drivers are speeding or creating more risk behind the wheel and you can deal with it.  The insurance companies know you are monitoring driver behaviour, thus the risk of accidents is lower. Since the vehicle tracking has a GPS tracking device recovering stolen vehicles is more plausible.  Since the police can act more quickly and perhaps return your vehicle you will have less insurance claims.  The insurance companies reward those with vehicle tracking by offering discounts on the premiums a company has to pay.