Protecting Your Assets with Modern Vehicle Tracking

Did you know that modern GPS vehicle tracking is so much more than just telling you where the vans in your fleet are, or how fast they are going? Proper asset tracking, these days, is able to deliver you a full report on every aspect of every vehicle’s current status – and to develop a series of reports that take those snap shots and build them into a huge picture. That picture is then used to develop better practices – to streamline your vehicle use and management so that the bottom line of your margin is raised and your company starts squeezing all the profit it can out of the vehicles it owns.

Here are a few ways to use modern GPS vehicle tracking to its full extent. Start with a simple one – petrol consumption. Modern asset tracking can tell you how much fuel is in your vehicle or vehicles at any given time. Over days, then weeks, then months, you can build up a picture of how often your vehicles need to be refuelled against the distances they are travelling. If your petrol consumption looks bad, you can then take a look at possible causes. What is the average speed your vehicles are being driven at (your modern vehicle tracking unit will tell you that too)? How long do your vehicles spend with their engines turned on but not actually moving (again, modern asset tracking systems can deliver that kind of information)? Once you have a picture of how your petrol consumption is performing, and what factors may be affecting it, you can start to develop different routines that will make it better.

Your GPS tracking units should also be able to deliver you instrumental information. Anything that can be measured by instruments can be sent via the GPS signal to your central system – the control hub that lets you build all of your fleet information into usable reports. So you will know speed band you can know oil levels. Over time, again, your vehicle tracking unit starts to build you a picture that lets you see where certain things are being over used, or are not as efficient as they could or should be.

Using GPS tracking in this way enables you to save thousands of pounds every year. You can check that your vehicles are only being used for company business. You can set up alarms to let you know when vehicles are going on routes or into areas that they are not supposed to be on, or in. You can set speed alarms and time alarms. The time alarms that your GPS vehicle tracking unit can provide are invaluable in making sure your drivers stick to British working time and health and safety regulations – which, again, could save you thousands in fines.

Modern technology is about making life easier and more efficient. For fleet managers, whose assets are often well out of sight on the other side of the country, GPS tracking does both with ease.