GPS Fleet Vehicle Tracking

GPS fleet vehicle tracking is vital to your business operations, if the nature of your business requires having many vehicles under your control and you need the ability to determine vehicle and employee locations. Having this system will free up so much time taken up by periodic check-ins or location requests – a dispatcher can just locate a vehicle through online tracking instead of asking the driver.

There are many companies who already use a system like this, such as UPS and FedEx. They increase their efficiency by tracking their vehicles so they know when certain points will be visited and which have already been serviced.

Consumer logistics wouldn’t be the only use for fleet tracking with a GPS system – a transit system would also be a good candidate for it. Knowing if a bus is on-time or going to be late can help dispatchers help customers who need to know how to get somewhere or if they’ve already missed their ride. Some transit authorities even publically publish this information so the customers themselves would know where the bus would be so they can make the best guess for when they need to catch it.

Office equipment repair and service personnel can be more efficient through the use of a tracker. Instead of having to research the next location after each service call is completed, dispatchers can have that information more readily available if they already knew exactly where their field techs were and could also map the locations of the customers who need service.

Sales agents would find this particularly useful to get to those customers they’ve never seen before. This kind of approach would increase efficiency and gain more customer contact time instead of having the sales agent wander hopelessly in unfamiliar territory. Arriving on-time to a prospective customer can help sales personnel seem more professional.

There are two types of vehicle tracking; they are either active or passive. An active tracking device would send periodic location information (usually over a cellular network) to a pre-designated device. Conversely, a passive tracking device would take location information at intervals, store them, and make them available for easy retrieval either through physically connecting the unit to a receiver or by proximity data extraction which could use wireless transmission between the server and the unit.

Other uses for fleet tracking would be for private transit systems such as local taxi services so the companies know where their drivers are – for both efficiency and their safety.