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MARCH 2015 PRO INSTALLER
VEHICLE TRACKING
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A Real Vehicle
Cost Saving
A growing number of organisations of all sizes, from both the private and public sectors, are
turning to vehicle tracking to improve the management of their fleet and make vital cuts.
With affordable flexible direct rental options, and minimal initial investment, it is a
great way of making significant savings and improving
your service, whilst keeping
on top of administrative and
legal duties.
Working with your team to improve their driving style will also
lower the risk of damaging goods
being transported, or guarantee
an all-round better customer experience when carrying passengers.
Vehicle tracking company Quartix discusses the benefits of this
growing technology.
Helping with
administration and
legal obligations
Cutting down on fuel
and maintenance costs
Installing a tracking system in
your vehicles will enable you to
gain more control over your fleet
and particularly growing fuel
costs. With the real-time tracking,
you are able to tell at any time if
one of your vehicles is idling, and
the daily and weekly reports will
give you all idling details and totals for each vehicle. Cutting down
on this practice could mean valuable savings on the fuel front, as
well as reducing wear and tear.
The Quartix system also shows
a replay of every trip taken by
each vehicle, all displayed on
Google Maps, and allows you to
search for the closest vehicle to
an address in real-time, which
will help you improve routing and
dispatching.
The Daily Route Maps enable
you to analyse the routes taken
and see how you could cut down
on mileage, whilst the Real-Time
Address Search means you can
quickly send the closest or most
appropriate vehicle to a last minute job, or advise a driver who is
lost.
One of the main features to help
you reduce fuel consumption
however is Quartix’s Driving-Style
Monitoring suite. The module
monitors and reports on harsh
acceleration, braking and speeding, giving you the ability to make
substantial fuel savings (typically
up to 15%) whilst dramatically improving the safety of your drivers
and customers. Harsh braking not
Improving your service
‘managers are now seeing monitoring
good driving as a top priority’
only wastes fuel and increases servicing costs (tyres, brakes etc) but
is also known to be a driving style
which leads to an increased risk
of accidents, which is why managers are now seeing monitoring
good driving as a top priority.
To encourage their drivers to
adopt a more economical and
safer driving style, managers
have found that using carrots, not
sticks, often works best: giving
incentive to better drivers and rewarding top performers, who are
easily identifiable thanks to league
tables on the Quartix system,
has shown to be one of the most
effective ways. Without singling
any drivers out, another method is
to look at the Driving scoring average across the fleet and working
with the team to increase it.
As well as directly saving money,
using vehicle tracking can help
you improve your customer service. With the live data updated
every minute, you can advise a
customer who calls in of the exact
location of your vehicle and when
it will reach them, or if a driver is
running late. Having all the data at
hand is also valuable when solving customer disputes: you will be
able to prove if your employee did
call at an address, or how long it
took to carry out a job, or that a
driver left a pickup point on time,
for example.
The extended reports available
through vehicle tracking systems also help you keep on top
of administrative duties, and be
assured that you are complying
with your duty of care obligations.
With fleet operators’ vehicles
sometimes wrongly blamed for
causing damage or accidents,
you will have access to the exact
data to prove your case. In the
unfortunate event of one of your
vehicles being involved in an accident, the crash data feature from
Quartix will provide you with a
“replay” of the few seconds just
before and after the collision.
By checking the timesheets directly on the system, you can also
monitor your drivers’ hours and
verify payroll. Maintenance alerts
are also configurable, to remind
you of MOT dates, insurance
renewals or tyre check-ups, for
example.
Finally, knowing the location of
your vehicle at any time means
you can locate and hope to
recover a stolen vehicle much
quicker.
The Quartix system comes with
a free mobile app which enables
users to access the core features
of the system whilst on the move.
The app can be used by all Quartix customers on Apple, Android
and Windows devices.
Visit www.quartix.net or call
our friendly team today on
0870 013 6663 for more
information, an online demo or
a tailored quote