Increase Your ROI with GPS Fleet Management

If you’re an entrepreneur offering a fleet of cars and other vehicles for hire, then you should definitely check out about the GPS fleet tracking system. Wondering what it is? First let’s take a look at GPS or Global Positioning System, and understand how it works before we go into the nitty gritty details of how it can be used for fleet management.

In space, there are a number of artificial satellites that are designed to exactly geo position your location. Your phone or vehicle will have a receiver device that will be synched with the GPS satellites. As the tracker moves, the satellites in space will follow the movement and precisely point out the position using a triangulation process.

So, how can you use the technology of GPS for fleet management? It’s simple. All that you have to do is set up GPS tracking devices in all the vehicles in your fleet. Then connect all the trackers to a single computer set up in your office or head quarters. The trackers will give you the exact location of each and every car in your fleet.

Now, if you get a call from a customer requesting for a cab, all that you have to do is consult the GPS system. It will give you the accurate locations of all the cabs in your fleet. Identify a free cab closest to the customer’s location and call up the cab driver to verify the location. Then give the customer’s address to the cab driver and ask him to go there immediately. The advantages is that the waiting time for the customer is greatly reduced as you can almost instantly identify a free cab and send it to the customer. Also, fuel expenses are greatly saved because the cab driver is close to the customer’s location and doesn’t have to travel far.

You can also use the GPS fleet management system to track the number of kilometers traveled and the time on job. Don’t wait for the cab drivers to give you written invoices detailing all their tasks during the week or month. The fleet management system will maintain neat logs of the distance traveled, time taken and calls attended. This system also comes handy in tracking the performance of your cab drivers and identifying ones who are slacking. On the whole, this tracking system will not only help improve your business, but also increase your return on investment.