Rocky Mountain Tracking

By Greg Bartlett

How would you like to increase your small business’ bottom line by 7 percent while improving service and tightening your performance? One office-supply company did that very thing without completely re-making the company. Their key investment was actually quite small and simple to implement: they decided to give GPS fleet tracking a try. Here’s how it can work for you, too: install GPS fleet tracking devices in all of your delivery vehicles. No special training sessions for all of your drivers; no replacements of your existing fleet; no massive investment of capital that small-business owners can’t afford; just add a device to each vehicle.

GPS and Fleet Tracking

And just like that, you can look at a constantly updated map showing where your delivery vehicles are located at any time. In fact, you can see if they’re following their routes. You can see that one of your vehicles is falling behind, find another driver nearby and suggest a change to the schedule before any of your clients get missed. If a driver needs directions or has trouble finding a client, you can see where he is and redirect him immediately. You can even check some statistics - why did one vehicle spend so much of the day sitting still? Or why did another vehicle exceed 75 mph three times today?

GPS fleet tracking is so powerful, your employees might watch their driving, ignore distractions, stick close to the schedule, and all in all, become more profitable! And you might have to figure out how to reinvest the additional profit you start bringing in.GPS fleet tracking lets you become the master controller, with dynamic updates on where your investment is going at any time. And this is not an investment that is only possible for large companies. Since every company only needs GPS fleet tracking devices for as many vehicles as they own, the cost scales according to your size, but the benefits are huge for everyone. That’s what makes this investment so powerful; the benefit is hugely disproportionate to the investment it requires.

You’ve already made a large investment in your vehicles. Running a fleet is never cheap, and you want to make sure your investment is used to the fullest. GPS fleet tracking requires only a small initial outlay that will increase the productivity of your fleet in a huge way. Take advantage of this technological innovation and increase the profitability of your business before your competition figures it out and gets this benefit for themselves!

By Greg Bartlett

Whether your fleet has three vehicles or three hundred, managing them and ensuring that you know where each vehicle is and what each driver is doing can be a huge headache. You try to streamline the process as much as possible, but sometimes you wonder if your drivers are being completely honest with you. Did the trip really take that long, or did the driver take an unauthorized stop along the way? Are the drivers taking the most efficient routes, or just the ones they know best?

GPS fleet tracking can provide you with the answers you need and a solution to make managing your fleet easier. A GPS fleet tracking unit in your vehicle would permit you to monitor its location, speed, stops, and even the vehicle’s condition. You might be surprised at the amount of information that the GPS tracking unit will give you.

For instance, if your drivers are taking extra long lunch breaks, using company vehicles during unauthorized times or for unauthorized stops, or are driving outside predetermined boundaries – known as geo-fences – and are thus wasting time and resources, the GPS unit will let you know. Driving habits can also be monitored. If you see that an employee is driving like he’s in a tiny sports car while driving a tractor trailer truck on a mountain road, you can stop his erratic behavior before he damages anyone or any company property. The GPS tracking unit will even alert you if the vehicle’s speed exceeds a preset limit.

GPS fleet tracking can provide you with automatic updates when a stop is made and a delivery or pickup, for instance, is accomplished. Furthermore, the GPS unit will allow you to monitor your vehicles’ mechanical condition and will alert you if a vehicle needs maintenance. You can also use GPS tracking to see if your drivers are taking the most efficient routes. Many companies which have started tracking their fleets have seen increases in customer satisfaction and productivity and decreases in gas expenses, for instance, because they have been able to find the best routes for drivers to take. In addition, GPS units have an extra bonus – if a vehicle is stolen, you can use the GPS tracking information to recover the vehicle.

With GPS fleet tracking, you’ll be able to manage your fleet more effectively than ever, monitoring your vehicles’ locations and activities, and you’ll increase profits by saving time, increasing efficiency, and reducing expenses.

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.

By Greg Bartlett

Because of the current economy, most individuals and companies are searching for ways to save money and reduce spending. That may mean trying to cut back on fuel costs, taking fewer trips if possible, or reducing travel time. For companies who use fleets, however, these options may not always seem sensible. After all, you have to send your vehicles out in order to keep the company in business, and you already have the vehicles being as efficient as possible, right?

Fleet of Delivery Trucks Utilize GPS

Maybe, but maybe not. Companies who have started using GPS fleet tracking have discovered that they can often save money by cutting fuel costs, finding more efficient routes, eliminating unauthorized use of company vehicles, reducing extra stops or long stops, and keeping up on vehicle maintenance. Even if the company thought it was being efficient before, GPS fleet tracking helped save the company money and more than paid for the expense of purchasing the GPS units.

For instance, GPS tracking devices can help your drivers determine the most efficient routes. While cutting off a couple miles on one driver’s trip may not seem like much, when you multiply it by the entire fleet, you have saved quite a bit of money in fuel costs and time. Furthermore, with GPS fleet tracking, you can determine where each of your vehicles is, and if someone calls in and needs your company to pick up something, you can find the best vehicle to send and can find the fastest routes to and from the additional stop.

Since GPS tracking can tell you where each of your vehicles is, what stops it made, how long the stops were, and how fast the vehicle was going, you can determine if drivers are taking much too long on lunch breaks or are making unauthorized stops. You can also determine if your vehicles are being driven responsibly and can even correct things like sudden acceleration and breaking, which wear out brakes and reduce fuel efficiency. Many GPS tracking devices will even monitor the vehicle’s mechanical condition, letting you keep track of its maintenance needs and fixing things before they become a problem.

Saving your company money and making your fleet more efficient is possible, no matter how efficient your company is right now. GPS fleet tracking will help you to monitor you fleet and to find ways to make your company more profitable. Even if it’s many small things, they can add up to save your company thousands of dollars a year.

By Greg Bartlett

No matter whether your fleet consists of cars, tractor trailer trucks, taxis, emergency vehicles, buses, or construction vehicles, keeping track of your fleet is important. You have to know where your vehicles are in order to be effective, efficient, and, of course, profitable. It won’t help your delivery company if your trucks are taking longer routes than necessary, and not knowing where your emergency vehicles are could risk people’s lives.

Fleet Management

One of the best ways to keep track of your fleet is with GPS fleet tracking, which will give you the precise location of each vehicle of your fleet. You can use the GPS data to find the most efficient routes, cut fuel costs, eliminate unnecessary stops and unauthorized use of company vehicles, and even to prevent theft.

A delivery company is using GPS fleet tracking to discover each vehicle’s movements, finding and correcting inefficiencies. GPS tracking can also help the company keep customers happy, updating them if the delivery will be late or early and providing customers with a much more accurate delivery time. Furthermore, the GPS tracking permits the company to find the best routes, adding stops if necessary by locating the nearest vehicle to the stop and making necessary adjustments.

Some emergency vehicles, such as patrol cars and ambulances, are being equipped with GPS fleet tracking so that dispatchers can find the nearest vehicle to send to an emergency site. The quicker the vehicle arrives, the more likely any victims will be saved, so the dispatchers need to know where each vehicle is and be able to send it to the site immediately.

A construction company has recently put GPS tracking in its vehicles and equipment, allowing it not only to cut fuel costs and monitor its equipment, but also to track items if they are stolen. The GPS system will even notify the company if the tracked item leaves certain boundaries, which permits the company to alert police almost immediately if a vehicle or piece of equipment is stolen.

The advantages of GPS vehicle tracking for your fleet could go on and on. Panic buttons for the drivers in case of emergency, for instance, are another popular and helpful option. Your priority is to manage your fleet effectively while finding the most efficient routes, locating the nearest vehicles, and reducing fuel costs and extra stops. GPS fleet tracking will help you monitor and manage your fleet, reduce theft, and increase profits.

By Greg Bartlett

Some people are control freaks. They like to know where everything is and what everyone is doing, and if anyone moves an item or does something they didn’t expect, the control freak will get upset. However, for a company which has a corporate fleet, having a control freak in charge is almost necessary.

A company does need to know where each vehicle is and what each driver is doing, and needs to be in complete control of the process. Okay, maybe yelling at a driver for taking five minutes too long on a lunch break is excessive, but closely monitoring and directing a corporate fleet is often necessary.

GPS fleet tracking allows companies to be reasonable control freaks. The company can locate each vehicle being tracked and can watch speed, driving habits, stop times and locations, and can even monitor the vehicle’s condition. Companies using GPS vehicle tracking have seen savings in fuel costs and insurance rates, in addition to being able to increase efficiency, cut back on excessive wait time and time at stops, and to discover unauthorized use of company vehicles.

They can also be alerted if a vehicle experiences mechanical failure or malfunction, if the driver goes outside predetermined boundaries, or if a vehicle is stolen or hijacked.

Many GPS fleet tracking systems allow monitoring in real time, and your company’s dispatchers can use the GPS information to determine which vehicle is closest to a new call. The dispatchers can also help the driver determine the fastest and most efficient route to a new stop.

One company which started to use GPS fleet tracking noted an increase in customer satisfaction. Customers were pleased that drivers were able to respond to their requests quicker and their arrival times were much more reliable. In fact, some GPS systems allow the customers to also check up on the location of the driver, so that they can know exactly when the vehicle will arrive.

Increasing efficiency and productivity is sometimes only possible if your company has tight control over its drivers. GPS fleet tracking will permit you to have the control you need, monitoring every vehicle every minute of the day, while doing most of the work for you.

Furthermore, it can increase customer satisfaction and save money in many areas, from fuel to stolen vehicles to keeping your vehicles running smoothly. You don’t really need a control freak to track your fleet. You just need a GPS fleet tracking system.

By Greg Bartlett

Your company has a fleet of trucks which you use to transport merchandise across the country. You have people busy at your office, trying to keep track of each vehicle, determine its arrival times at each destination, add destinations where necessary, provide drivers with directions, and a host of other worries. The spreadsheets and databases you’ve been using are getting complicated and provide huge headaches for your staff. So it’s time to change – to what?

Most likely you want something that will accurately track your fleet and do most of your work for you, primarily finding out where all your vehicles are. It would be an even greater benefit if it could also let you know driving times, destinations, and routes. Thankfully, there is such an option available to you.

GPS fleet tracking can provide you and your staff with the exact location of each vehicle in your fleet, and can track their movements, speed, and even monitor the condition of the vehicle. If your staff finds that another stop is necessary to pick up new merchandise, you can locate the nearest driver and send him or her to pick it up.

Furthermore, GPS fleet tracking allows you and the driver to find the most efficient routes, and has often saved companies money because of reduced fuel costs and increased productivity.

Other advantages include notification if the driver deviates from a set route or makes an unauthorized stop. If your driver wastes too much time at lunch or consistently goes over the speed limit, you can find out and correct the driver’s behavior. You and your staff can observe any erratic or dangerous driving and shut the car down from a distance. The remote shut-off is also helpful if the vehicle is stolen or hijacked, and the driver often has a panic button to alert you if such an event occurs, so that you can shut off the vehicle immediately.

GPS fleet tracking will also let you know if your driver is using the car during unauthorized hours, and can reduce operating costs as well as improve response time, which will increase productivity and customer relations. Furthermore, insurance companies often offer lower rates for companies who use GPS tracking on their fleets.

If you want to eliminate a lot of your work and reduce your staff members’ headaches while accurately monitoring your fleet while increasing productivity and efficiency for your company, your best option is GPS fleet tracking.

More and more municipalities and businesses are getting smarter about using GPS tracking to keep citizens and customers informed and ease the burden at call intake centers.

In North Carolina, one university decided to put GPS tracking technology to work so that students could stay informed in real time about when buses would arrive. Using GPS tracking to help with planning and scheduling can make a big difference.

This winter people in and around the Washington DC area will be able to experience the GPS difference. Washington DC has decided to use GPS tracking technology to let people get information about where snow plow are. When they see just where snow plows are, they can plan their travel accordingly. Area residents were already able to go online to the District Department of Transportation’s website see images of how the roads looked, but real time information on where snow plows are will be even more useful.

This information is not only useful for residents; it also means that officials at the District Department of Transportation will also get pertinent information on where their snow plows are and what they are doing. The GPS tracking devices will not only give location, they will also let officials know if a plow is in operation and if it is spreading salt.

GPS tracking can help you monitor routes and stops. Time spent idle and stops at unauthorized locations can become costly for your business; with a GPS vehicle tracking system you can ensure that this does not become a problem. By tracking both real time and historic data you can notice and eliminate suspicious uses of your vehicles by employees.  Many of our systems report all vehicle activity and immediately alert fleet managers by cell phone and email of speeding and unauthorized use of company vehicles.

In addition to this, GPS tracking can help you improve route planning. By knowing where your vehicles at all times on a real time map, dispatchers can easily send the nearest vehicle when a new job arises.  This saves both money and time.

GPS tracking can help you keep up with your vehicles and help you improve customer relations at the same time. Visit Rocky Mountain Tracking online to learn more about you can use GPS fleet tracking to manage your fleet.

Reading an article online, I read one about one business owner who had a great outlook on using GPS fleet tracking. We already know how great GPS tracking can be, but we are also aware that there are some skeptics out there. This person addressed the doubts that some may have by stating that install GPS tracking systems on company vehicles was not about second-guessing or trying to entrap employees; it is about running a business smoothly and efficiently.

For one thing, GPS car tracking technology allows you to validate service calls. There will be no need to guess. By simply looking at the history of a vehicle you can quickly tell when it arrived and how long it was at a particular service call because there is a clear record. This can work in an employees favor.

Unfortunately, although we try to operate with from the standpoint that the customer is always right, that does not mean that the customer does not make mistakes. With GPS tracking technology, you can get to the bottom or any alleged discrepancies and quickly settle disputes. This prevents fraudulent claims. With a good digital log you can demonstrate that your fleet was where it needed to be when it needed to be there.

Having a GPS tracking system in place will also be a great asset when it comes to billing. Even people who love working with numbers, so not relish the thought of trying to come up with billing statements without sufficient information. GPS tracking systems help amass a digital log so you can calculate time and fuel costs accurately, eliminating estimates and assumptions.

And with Rocky Mountain Tracking’s comprehensive customer support, an investment in GPS tracking really pays off, You not only have the tools to run your business more efficiently, you will know that you have a place to turn to should you need any help.

Get firsthand knowledge of  what some Rocky Mountain Tracking customers already know: fleet tracking means better fleet management and this equals an increase in more profit. One study conducted earlier this year, showed that some companies find a 42% increase in work order completion. A possible 42% increase is already good news, but it looks even better when researchers compared it to the 12% increase in work order completion they found with companies that did not use GPS tracking systems to manage their fleets.

Just like households, businesses are looking for ways to cut costs and increase revenue. As you probably know, it is the little things that count and you either earn more one penny at a time or you find that losing dollars started with the loss of a few cents here and there.

You lose money each time an employee speeds and operates company vehicles in a way that is less than fuel efficient. However, you also get the most for your money every time an employee obeys traffic laws and makes an on-time delivery. Actually, you get over and above money’s worth because safe driving and customer satisfaction today pays dividends in the future.

This is where GPS fleet tracking can help. GPS tracking systems do not simply record employee behavior; they also are an excellent record of company behavior. If you take the time to look at the overall picture provided by GPS tracker records, you’ll have a better idea of where you need to stop money from flowing out and how you can do more to make money flow in.

For example, maybe traffic on a certain side of town is eroding profit. When you look at the time of say you deliver there, you can make adjustments to the delivery schedule and save on fuel costs.

There are so many things you may not notice on a day-to-day basis that will become readily apparent when you can get a more global perspective on making stops and deliveries.

When you use a GPS vehicle tracking system from Rocky Mountain Tracking, you’ll be able to see how bundling deliveries or altering your schedules could maximize profits