Fleet tracking systems are designed with one primary goal: to save time and money. There many benefits to using a fleet tracking system, here is a list of the Top 5 Benefits (Part One):
Fleet tracking systems are designed with one primary goal: to save time and money. There many benefits to using a fleet tracking system, here is a list of the Top 10:
1. Increased Profits and Performance
Access to vehicle efficiency and driver productivity data helps a company manage the costs related to fleet operations. There can be a significant reduction in employee overtime costs and driver down-time; reduced maintenance costs directly affect the bottom line. Plus improved route efficiency and fleet metrics allow for expanding customer base.
PS tracking devices allow an owner to track the location of their assets in real-time, and can locate a stolen vehicle or piece of equipment within minutes. Police can often recover the stolen items in less than 24 hours.
Thousands of vehicles across the US have a GPS-based fleet tracking system installed. Why? Because a fleet tracking system can help you cut costs, improve customer service, and take more control of managing your employees and fleet vehicles.
cocktail waitress uniformTracking System Uses RFID Technology to Monitor Linens and Garments
Casinos such as Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, IL and the Odawa Casino Resort in Petoskey, MI are using advanced tracking systems that use high-tech radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to monitor their garments, linens and uniforms.
Why? An RFID tracking system can help to tighten loss control and reduces costs in non-revenue producing departments of their large scale facilities.
A Supreme Court decision limiting GPS tracking for law enforcement could stall a controversial arson case.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled last month that police can’t install a GPS tracking system on a suspect’s vehicle without first obtaining a court-ordered warrant. Now this decision is being used to support a man accused of arson in Butte County, CA, according to KRCR-TV.
Thousands of companies across the U.S., from corporate giants like FedEx and UPS, down to small businesses like Conway’s Flowers, are using GPS tracking technology to cut costs, become more efficient, and improve customer service and vehicle maintenance.
A GPS fleet tracking system can help to monitor workers, reduce fuel consumption, navigate shorter or better routes for drivers, track stolen vehicles, obtain discounts on insurance and offers other features such as time sheet reporting and mileage claims to enhance customer service and satisfaction.
The Supreme Court’s Recent GPS Tracking Decision May Impact NYC Taxi Drivers
Last week NYC taxi drivers Koffi Aka and Robert Carniol filed a federal class action lawsuit against New York City, its Taxi and Limousine Commission, and commissioner Chairman David Yassky, according to the New York Courthouse News. The cab drivers’ lawsuit claims that “warrantless” GPS tracking has exposed thousands of taxi drivers to bogus prosecutions and license revocations.
Despite Rising Gas Prices, Dunphy’s ExtermaPest Uses FieldLogix GPS Fleet Tracking System to Cut Gas Costs by $700 a Month For a 10 Vehicle Fleet
Gas prices are typically low in January, but not this year. Currently the U.S. average price for a gallon of self-serve regular gas is $3.44, 17 cents more than one month ago, and 35 cents more than one year ago, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.
GPS Fleet Tracking System For School Buses Keeps Students Safe & Makes School Districts More Efficient
For schools, providing safe transportation is always a top priority. School boards are under pressure to not only provide a safe, reliable transportation service to school children and their parents, but also to run as efficiently as possible in light of today’s budget restraints. A GPS fleet tracking system can make a school bus fleet more profitable, plus it helps to keep children safe.
Student Tracking System Facilitates Real-Time Communication Between Teachers, Students and Parents
Technology is changing the way teachers and parents keep track of their child’s school work and attendance in Bakersfield, CA. Last week a web-based student tracking system was launched at select schools in the Kern High School District (KHSD).
Last week the City of Halifax launched a pilot program to monitor patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The program uses a GPS tracking system to monitor the patients’ whereabouts.
Alzheimer’s patients will wear bracelets equipped with GPS tracking technology. The tracking system has a shock sensor to detect if a patient slips and falls.
In 2011, the NOAA satellite tracking system was critical in the rescues of 207 people who were in life-threatening situations throughout the United States and its surrounding waters. Satellites picked up distress signals from emergency beacons carried by downed pilots, shipwrecked boaters and stranded hikers, and relayed the information about their location to first responders on the ground.
In an effort to crack down on the County’s copper thieves, the local Sheriff embedded a load of copper wire with a GPS tracking system and then left it out in the open on private property. It didn’t take long for the thieves to take the bait.
With today’s high unemployment rates, large companies are being bombarded with resumes, and they are turning to technology to quickly find the best candidates for their open positions.
Ed Struzik, an International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) expert on resume tracking systems, told the Wall St. Journal that over 90% of large companies are using a resume tracking system, and it would “be very rare to find a Fortune 500 company without one.”
At the end of 2011, Winnebago County installed a GPS fleet tracking system inside every one of the city’s trucks to wage the war against snow.
Highway fleet managers can now locate where their trucks are in the county, how much salt the drivers are applying and what kind of salt they are using
This week police officers in Cassia County, Idaho, used a secretly placed GPS tracking system embedded in copper wire to catch two alleged copper thieves. The local Magic Valley News said the sheriff’s office recently embedded copper wire with a GPS tracking system and then left it out in the open on private property. Last […]
If you realized your house had just been robbed, what would you do? If you were an internet-savvy teenager like Max Malkin, you would immediately call the police and then use your iPhone GPS and a laptop to help police track down your stolen electronics and nab the suspect.
On Saturday, 14 year old Max Malkin was able to help Seattle police track down a felon who was arrested with thousands of dollars in electronics equipment that had just been stolen from the young man’s home, the Seattle Times reported. [More…]
The teen’s father, Harold Malkin, said he heard a noise around 2 a.m. Saturday coming from the main level of his house. He said he figured it was the family cat running around, so he fell back to sleep.
To his dismay, when he woke up hours la
