Why it’s Good to Stay on Track With Your Business

When you are a service providing packages for customers or food, or even if you just have to move merchandise from one place to another, it’s important to know how you’re driving. Not just because of the costs, the environmental reasons, but also because you know what the drivers are doing, how they work and how to be more efficient. It’s great that we now have systems where it’s so easy to track everything we’re doing, and it's our responsibility to keep up with that. To use that responsibility wisely. In this article we will tell you all the positive sides of fleet management and why you should invest in it.

Environment

When working in fleet management, which entails managing everything related to tracking, you have all that responsibility. Now the tracking systems will make it mostly a very easy thing to do. They can tell you all the data, you don’t have to find that yourself. By comparing drivers’ behaviours and routes, you can optimize routes and make sure that they aren’t driving more than they ought to. You can also actually track fuel and carbon emissions, within that you can see what the trends or the anomalies are. There is even a co2 report that these tracking systems can give you. Super-efficient and easy to stay environmentally friendly.

Management

Seamless communication is very important when working with drivers. Not only to enhance the feeling of a “team” but also to enhance performance and contentment within the workplace. When you are using vehicle tracking, you can tell where the drivers are, but also what their cars are doing. Being able to tell them exactly what is happening is a great relief and saves a lot of customer service time and administration time. By seeing what the drivers are doing, you can also enhance your judgement of the workplace. Not only to see who works in what way, but also to see where most things could have gone better.

Mileage and Traffic

Knowing exactly how many miles a company has per hour, day, week, and month is very useful. This will also simplify the way you have to work on your administration and taxes. Data security is of course very important. Drivers need to be able to see their own miles, but not everyone else’s. Private trips should also be accounted for if taken with the company's car. So the two don’t get mixed up. These days, tracking devices will be accompanied by an app where drivers can log all their behaviour, keep in contact and enter their destinations. Tracking devices can also locate traffic jams and accurately reassign new roads to take. If the drivers spend less time on the road, they can spend more time with the customers. And customer experience is so important.

Driver Health

When you have employees, who drive a lot of hours a day, it’s important to stay on top of their health. For both the benefit of the employer and the employee. It can impact the ability to do their work safely. Being safe on the road is one of the most important things and should always come first. Make sure they do a thorough health check before starting this job. Also, make sure their medication does not impact their reaction time or eyesight. When you’re on the road it’s also hard to eat healthily, and you don’t get a lot of physical exercise either. Make sure you remind your employees that these things are important. Maybe even make a meal plan or compensate in some way for it. Free memberships to the gym are not a crazy idea. With COVID-19, it’s also really important to have facemasks and hand gel available. And to only let them drive if they do not have any cold or flu symptoms.

Policies

Make sure you have a safe driving policy. Around a third of all car, crashes are caused by someone who was working at the time. This is not a good number. Employers need to be aware of their policies and even be rigorous in applying these to the people that work for them. Have weekly meetings with the team and make sure you press them on being safe on the road. When you hire people, make sure that they are responsible people who care for their own health and care about being safe. You can even give training in being safe on the road. This may sound redundant, but it’s actually an excellent investment. A lot of people think they know how to be safe but might skip a lot of safety procedures.

All in all, it’s good to keep an eye out for safety. With tracking, you reduce all the risks involved for drivers and employers. Being responsible doesn’t have to be hard, and it can have a very positive impact on everyone involved.