5 ways a fleet management system can save time & money

5 Ways a Fleet Management System Can Save Time & Money

February 14, 2020

Thanks to Telematics, fleet management systems are helping businesses transform their business strategies and workforce collaboration.

Let’s explore how a solid fleet management system can help your business save time and money, help increase efficiency and productivity; while at the same time improve the safety of your fleet vehicles and drivers.

Fleet Management System Benefits

If your national, international or state-based company is focusing on freight, delivery, transport or uses a number of vehicles as a service-oriented organisation, you would benefit from knowing five ways a fleet management system can help your business save time and money.

1. Better business

A coordinated vehicle operation under the umbrella of a fleet management system takes you one step closer to having a business that will be profitable, accountable and successful. That is because a fleet management system is all about delivering efficiencies towards making the service you provide more effective.

2. Complete transparency

First, fleet management systems provide your business with complete transparency as you will immediately be able to have a clear understanding of where your vehicles are, the duration of each job, the performance of your vehicles and drivers, and whether you can add more jobs and drivers as your efficiencies improve.

3. Faster insights

The second way a fleet management system can help your business save time and money is that is helps reduce waste. Costs like petrol (in particular it can help zero in on fuel efficiency, driver habits and the conditions on the road) and vehicle maintenance or repairs as your system can report hourly, daily or weekly what is going on. A fleet management system can also serve as performance enhancers. This means you and your management team will have faster, better insights into the performance of your fleet and you can make tweaks, changes or adjustments to boost productivity and overall performance.

4. Better customer service

Another way fleet technology works to your advantage, and this one is critically important, is that it can really help improve customer service and your relationship with your customers.

If your business is one that involves delivery, for instance, being able to give your clients a real-time update on when they can expect the delivery, can instantly improve their perception of you as a reliable business. After all, who hasn’t experienced the frustration of being told to expect a delivery and it is a no-show, wasting our time and leaving a negative impression towards the company whose service we relied on.

5. Driver performance & safety

Last, but by no means least, implementing fleet technology can help improve your driver performance and boost on-road safety. Having the right software will allow you to oversee aspects such as driver patterns, behaviours and habits. If you become aware that some drivers are not operating safely or seem to be rather erratic, there are steps you can take to improve driver awareness. They’ll thank you for it, and so will other vehicles on the road.