How Does Online Vehicle Tracking Help Businesses?
Posted by dunitzsantrino on June 17th, 2014
One of the ways of ensuring safety and security, primarily, to your mobile assets – vehicles and then the control of costs and workforce is bring the vehicles under the fold of online vehicle tracking. The systems are as per the approved standards of the transport authorities of the governments and run on GPS tracking. It does not require any software application installation or downloads. It gives the business a control tool for managing the fleets and their real time visibility. The system is suitable for all sizes of the transport business.
The vehicle tracking system is just a web based system, having many cutting edge features to have a peace of mind over your vehicles. You may enjoy the 24 x 7 and 365 days flexibility to get to know effectively the real time data on your vehicle at any point of time. You may control all your vehicles of any types like vans, HGVs, specialist vehicles like gritters/ sweepers and also the workforce.
The system encompasses lots of viewing options, using the mapping of Google, Nokia, etc., to monitor the minute by minute movement of individual vehicle or any number of vehicles. You may also have live access to the journey progress and road speed and traffic flow directions. The viewing can be normal or terrain or satellite views. To enable the restriction on the movement of the vehicles, certain alerts like “No-go” or preferred Geo-zones may be set to trigger an email or SMS when the vehicles take unauthorized movements or cross pre-determined routes.
By identifying the location of the vehicles, the management can ensure smarter routing by diverting the vehicles to the respective nearest job points, thereby avoiding unnecessary/ overlapping movements in the shed or rest places or empty runs. It will also enable viewing the route map for the respective destination, distance to be covered and the expected time of travel. Besides real time viewing, you may also generate full history report that will provide starting time, reaching time, stopovers, routes taken, diversions if any, road speed, driver’s name, fuel filled/ consumed, mileage done and the like. The data can be analyzed and delays in trips can be avoided and punctual movements and hence prompt deliveries can be ensured.
Online vehicle tracking system boosts the performance of the fleet operations by increasing the efficiency, customer service and productivity cost cutting and better financial returns immediately, besides safety and security of your vehicles.
Before going in for a vehicle tracking system, you may try for a demo, compare the features and benefits offered by various vendors and also the cost, get the opinion from your co-businessmen and install the one most suited to you to get a peace of mind over your mobile assets. The CRC (Customer Response Centre) of the vendor will render round the clock service for providing data on your vehicles.
