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By Greg Bartlett

Your family has worked hard to get your delivery company where it is today, but right now you’re not sure if you can hold it together. You’re cutting costs as much as possible, but there just seem to be too many expenses. Your fleet drivers claim that they’re doing their routes as quickly as possible and not wasting company time or resources, but sometimes you wonder—especially with a couple of your drivers. So you ask your secretary to see if there is some way to monitor your drivers more effectively.

The answer she gives you is GPS fleet tracking, which would enable you to track each vehicle and monitor its location, speed, stops, and even vehicle maintenance and whether or not a cargo door has been opened. You’ll be able to track your fleet in real-time, following your drivers’ every movement, or you can choose to receive alerts when they reach their destinations. GPS fleet tracking will also alert you if the vehicle is driven outside a geo-fence which you preset or is used during unauthorized hours, which will help you to find out if one of your drivers is using a truck for his or her own use. Since companies can monitor a driver’s location and see if they take much too long at a stop or at a lunch break, companies often see decreases in idle time by around 25%.

GPS tracking will also monitor speed as well as location, so you can find out how safe your employees are while driving company vehicles. In fact, the GPS device can even be set to alert you if the vehicle exceeds a certain speed.

Companies have seen productivity increase and costs decrease once they started using GPS fleet tracking, often by 15-20%, and have also decreased fuel costs by approximately 20% and cut out about 30% of their mileage. If you get a call and have to add a stop at the last minute, you’ll be able to locate the nearest driver and figure out the best route to and from the unexpected stop.

GPS fleet tracking will meet your needs by letting you monitor your drivers, cutting costs and increasing productivity. Since GPS tracking will help you monitor everything from the mechanical condition of your fleet to proper use of company time and resources to the most efficient routes, you can stop worrying about your company’s fleet not being productive.