Businesses with fleets, especially main-street small businesses—plumbers, HVAC servicers, movers, last-mile delivery services—need to be as productive as possible. You don’t have the luxuries of manpower, capital or time to waste.

That’s why you need real-time fleet-tracking technology powered by GPS to help you manage your fleet, maintain vehicles and improve driver intelligence. Here’s how fleet GPS trackers can boost your productivity and your bottom line.

Fleets need streamlined management tracking to power productivity

The last thing fleet managers need is more complexity. Ditch the separate technologies and systems that perform only a single task. Opt instead for a fleet system that tracks all your assets under a single streamlined dashboard for simple and effective fleet management.

Look for a fleet-management system with the following features and functionality:

• Quick and easy install into the OBDII port under each vehicle’s dashboard.
• Precision GPS tracking that works even when a vehicle is indoors or underground.
• Driver coaching:
  • Odometer reading to monitor driver speed as well as sharp acceleration, deceleration and cornering
  • Route optimization to increase driver efficiency
  • Reduction in idling time
• Automatic electronic logging device (ELD) tax-filing technology that helps your drivers offload routine tasks so they can focus on the road and helping your customers.
• Data security that includes authentication, encryption and message-integrity verification.
• Vehicle maintenance capture for:
  • Vehicle identification number (VIN)
  • Engine faults, drivetrain, instrument cluster and other subsystems to help you keep vehicles in top shape longer
• Safety features:
  • Collision detection and notification
  • Collision reconstruction
• Web-based and smartphone applications for easy fleet management in the office or on the go.

With the right fleet GPS-tracking system, you can address multiple fleet-management challenges via a single solution.

Fleets need automated vehicle diagnostics and maintenance to increase productivity

As the size of your fleet increases, maintaining individual vehicles becomes a more daunting task, even with the right reminders in place. Rather than taking a reactive approach to vehicle maintenance, your fleet-management system should be able to provide real-time tracking and vehicle diagnostics.

Look for a fleet GPS tracker with a built-in vehicle-diagnostic scanner that plugs into the vehicle’s OBDII port. Not only does this make installation quick and easy, but it also makes capturing advanced data about vehicle maintenance simple. You’ll be able to tap into multiple internal networks in the vehicle, and the GPS tracker will organize the data for you so you can assess vehicle health whenever you want.

Fleets need to give their drivers more actionable insights to boost productivity

Driving takes a lot of concentration and skill, especially fleet vehicles like box trucks, vans and semis. Real-time fleet tracking gives you the opportunity to coach your drivers to improve safety and increase productivity. Here’s how:

• Monitor driver speeds to ensure they’re following speed limits.
• Reduce idle time to save on fuel and maximize driver efficiency through route optimization.
• Track aggressive acceleration, braking and cornering to help drivers curb dangerous habits. Instead of pulling all drivers off the road for training, you can target your training to the drivers who need it most. This can help you reduce violations.
• Get forensic reconstruction (speed and force) of suspected collisions, including in-vehicle reverse collisions, for unprecedented roadside visibility. Your dispatch team can contact the driver directly to check their safety and call emergency responders if needed.
• Give drivers the power to remotely access vehicle-registration data to decrease driver citations.
• Built-in electronic logging device (ELD) solutions make adhering to compliance simple with automated logging and insights to help you and your drivers understand the context of violations.

Choose PassTime's Fleet GPS, one of the most affordable fleet GPS-tracking solutions on the market

PassTime’s Fleet GPS offers tracking, management and optimization solutions for commercial fleets of all sizes. Our hardware solutions include Geotab GO and Encore. Our superior customer service, reliability and value make PassTime your go-to fleet-tracking solution.

Geotab GO

PassTime is part of Geotab’s select network of authorized retailers, and we don’t require long-term contracts like other fleet vendors do.

GO installs quickly and easily into any fleet vehicle’s OBDII port to help you reduce insurance costs, improve driver accountability and easily watch your entire fleet from a single software system. GO’s Garmin integration helps your drivers optimize routes and reduce idle time.

GO helps you use business intelligence to stay compliant with automated tax filings, increase driver productivity and safety and reduce business risk.

Encore

Encore, PassTime’s fourth-generation battery-powered device gives you reliable location data with an easy implementation. With Encore, you can manage every kind of asset in your fleet with an affordable and long-lasting self-powered GPS device. Waterproof and dust tight, it’s perfect for even the toughest of environments and installs in seconds on practically any asset.

Maximize your probability by increasing your fleet’s productivity with PassTime’s Fleet GPS. Get a custom quote today.