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Fleet Management

A GPS vehicle tracking system can be of considerable benefit to owners/managers by helping to manage activity, control costs, increase productivity & efficiency, improve customer service, reduce environmental impact and meet legal obligations.

Our tracking systems provide real time vehicle tracking and reporting - from one vehicle to large multi-vehicle fleets.

For more information about the benefits of vehicle tracking, please click on the links below or feel free to contact us.

» Manage Activity
» Control Costs
» Increase Productivity & Efficiency
» Improve Customer Service
» Reduce Environmental Impact
» Meet Legal Obligations

Manage Activity

Knowing the whereabouts of your mobile workforce at all times is essential in order to monitor, control and manage activity.

Our tracking systems can help you to:

• Evaluate individual driver performance
• Produce exact working hours information
• Provide accurate travel times and distances
• Reduce unnecessary overtime claims
• Eradicate timesheet abuse
• Eliminate private mileage abuses
• Discourage moonlighting
• Combat theft - the ability to track a stolen vehicle's exact whereabouts can assist the police in rapid response/recovery

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Control Costs

Knowing where your mobile workforce is at all times can lead to significant improvements in controlling costs.

Our tracking systems can help you to:

• Make fuel savings - cut the number of miles travelled, lower average speeds, eliminate speeding, reduce vehicle idling periods, remove unnecessary stops and deviations from planned routes
• Reduce vehicle maintenance - improved driving behaviour can result in reduced wear and tear on tyres and other vehicle parts
• Eliminate unnecessary overtime - accurate timesheet information can lead to a drop in overtime claims
• Reduce phone bills - cut unnecessary invoice/delivery queries and disputes
• Challenge unfairly issued parking tickets - proof of exact vehicle location/times can be produced
• Lower insurance premiums - many insurance companies offer a discount to those who can show that their vehicles are being driven safely/responsibly and can be swiftly located if stolen

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Increase Productivity & Efficiency

Knowing the location of your mobile workforce at all times can lead to major improvements in productivity and efficiency.

Our tracking systems can help you to:

• Achieve better working practices - optimise the amount of time spent in transit versus time spent on-site
• Minimise wasted time
• Increase productivity - both in and out of the workplace
• Allocate jobs to nearest vehicle/appropriately skilled person
• Improve route planning - by analysing routes currently taken versus potential alternatives
• Ensure driver workloads are realistic

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Improve Customer Service

Knowing the whereabouts of your mobile workforce at all times can lead to noticeable improvements in customer service.

Our tracking systems can help you to:

• Provide accurate ETA/delivery times
• Reduce complaints
• Cut the number of invoice queries/disputes
• Allocate jobs to nearest vehicle/appropriately skilled person

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Reduce Environmental Impact

Knowing where your mobile workforce is at all times can lead to meaningful reductions in environmental impact.

Our tracking systems can help you to:

• Improve driving behaviours
• Cut down on unnecessary stops and deviations from planned routes
• Reduce vehicle idling periods
• Eliminate speeding
• Make fuel savings

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Meet Legal Obligations

Knowing the location of your mobile workforce at all times can help owners/managers comply with their legal obligations.

The Law

The Health and safety at Work Act 1974 requires employers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health an safety of all employees whilst at work. Employers also have a responsibility to ensure that others are not put at risk by their employees’ work related driving activities.

In addition, under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, employers have a responsibility to manage health and safety effectively and to assess and continually review the risks to the health and safety of their employees.

A vehicle used on company business is considered to be a place of work. No company wants any of its employees to be involved in road collisions. Yet, government figures show that those who drive on company business figure very highly in road collision statistics.

Employers have a responsibility to ensure that there are procedures in place to encourage safe and responsibility driving, including:

• Ensuring drivers operate within the law
• Reviewing workloads and routes
• Encouraging a safe speed culture

Employers have a responsibility to ensure that employees are able to manage their time effectively without having to speed in order to reduce their journey times. Furthermore, it is vital for employers to know who is driving reach company vehicle at all times.

Other legislation which needs to be considered:

• The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
• Road Traffic Acts supported by the Highway Code
• The Road Transport (Working Times) Regulations 2005

As well as:

• UK Domestic Drivers’ Hours Rules
• EC Drivers’ Hours Rules
• Tachograph Regulations

Corporate Manslaughter

With effect from April 2008 the Corporate Manslaughter Act means that, for the first time, companies and organisations themselves can be found guilty of corporate manslaughter on the basis of gross corporate failures in heath and safety.

The act is about CORPORATE liability, rather than increasing liability for individual directors or managers who can already be held to account through heath and safety laws and the common law of manslaughter.

Companies and organisations will face an unlimited fine if they are found to have caused death due to their gross corporate heath and safety failures.

How Vehicle Tracking Can Help

A Vehicle Tracking system can produce information/data reports which can help in providing evidence of compliance with legal requirements:

• Daily Activity report: Shows all journeys made within a day for the selected vehicles. Statistics show how multiple vehicles have performed.
• Daily visit report: Shows all locations visited within a day for the selected vehicle.
• Out of hours movements report: Shows all journeys made outside of the designated operating hours for the selected vehicles.
• Time Sheet report: Drivers time sheet detailing the start and end time for each day. Times are taken from the start of the first journey to the end of the last journey within each day.
• Late Arrival/Early Departure report: Shows all journeys made outside of the designated operating hours for the selected vehicles.

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