If you have company vehicles on the road - cars, trucks, tractor trailers - and you do not have GPS vehicle tracking in them, you are probably spending money on wasted time, wasted fuel, and unnecessary vehicle maintenance and repairs. If you want to reduce these costs and improve your bottom line, GPS vehicle tracking is what you need.

Efficiency and productivity are often difficult to monitor for small business owners. Even large companies sometimes have trouble managing costs. Consider, if you will, the phenomenal success in operating cost reduction reported by UPS a few years ago when they discovered that eliminating left turns by their drivers saved time, increased fuel efficiency and saved money. The change was a result of analyzing idling time at traffic lights or waiting for traffic to clear, and it was done with data captured by GPS vehicle tracking.

GPS vehicle tracking allowed the company to monitor where the trucks were at any given time. They were able to extract reports showing the average wait time to make right turns and to make left turns. They were also able to analyze the amount of extra fuel required to make left turns (due to waiting for traffic to clear or for lights to change). They were also able to convert their findings to dollars lost. They determined that making left turns was simply too expensive.

The city of Dyersburg, TN needed to find a way to cut costs for city services. Based on an educated guess, they installed GPS vehicle tracking devices in all city vehicles. After a period of data gathering from the devices, city officials were able to document such things as (1) use of city vehicles for personal business, (2) drivers who clocked more than 120 miles in a day without making a single stop - except for breaks and meals, (3) drivers who were taking vehicles out of the city, (4) drivers who were picking up a small amount of tree limbs and cuttings and immediately going to the dump before picking up the next load.

This is just one example of the waste that can be detected by GPS vehicle tracking. An amazing amount of other data is also provided to managers and company leaders:

- driving at inefficient speeds (over 60 mph)

- unsafe or inefficient driving habits.

- failure to use the most direct route

- excessive idle time.

- finding the vehicle that is closest to an emergency and re-routing

- wasting time at a particular location

The information gathered by a GPS vehicle tracking system provides vital decision-making data for managers and company executives. The data can help managers correct bad driving habits, improve efficiencies, identify potential problems and protect their investments. It can become a primary tool in improving customer satisfaction. A good GPS vehicle tracking system can even help you create warning systems for drivers, notify drivers safely of traffic problems and offer alternative routes to save time.

GPS vehicle tracking systems enable you to even extend the life of your vehicles. It can help you identify and correct driving habits that are harmful to engines. It can also help you identify problem employees, identify several kinds of waste, prove unauthorized use of vehicles and find ways to make your drivers and your vehicles more efficient. With GPS vehicle tracking, you can help your employees become more reliable and consistent. You can cut costs while improving productivity; and this will result in increased profit.

Your drivers can find the best driving routes, reduce waiting time, improve fuel economy and contribute to a better bottom line. GPS devices are very affordable and very easy to install and monitor. Many insurance companies even offer rate reductions for vehicles equipped with GPS vehicle tracking. Perhaps best of all, the ROI of this investment will be many times greater than the cost and you can demonstrate improvement almost instantly.

For more information about gps vehicle tracking, get the white paper "7 Ways Your Company Can Save Thousands of Dollars With GPS Fleet Tracking." Many companies have substantially boosted their revenue and lowered their costs by installing a GPS tracking system for their fleet. To calculate the ROI for your company in under 30 seconds, see the fleet tracking ROI calculator.

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