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GPS Fleet Tracking System Increases a Plumbing Company?s Efficiency and Savings
Category: Internet
Fleet Tracking System has provide more customers
and much savings in terms fuel consumption due to effective routing.
Bob Jernigan, owner of the B&B Professional plumbing
based in Clearwater, Florida has purchased and installed GPS Fleet Tracking Systemin ten (10) of his trucks. His initial
purpose was simply to help his drivers and service technicians to route more
efficiently. However, he got more than what he expected. He was able to track
problematic drivers, contractors, and trucks. The GPS Fleet Tracking System has also provided him more customers and
much savings in terms fuel consumption due to effective routing.
The company is receiving $3 million in annual revenues but
Jernigan paid around $4,000 for the hardware and a monthly maintenance fee of
$15 per vehicle. The GPS Fleet Tracking Systempurchased allowed the company to track
the vehicle location, speed, and fuel consumption among others.
B&B Professional plumbing’s GPS Fleet Tracking Systemhas
a sophisticated interface with onboard vehicle computers that are
factory-installed. The interface itself provides diagnostic data ranging from
hydrocarbon counts to cylinder misfires.
The GPS Fleet
Tracking Systemtook only a few
hours to set up and so far, the company has been reaping its benefits. The
company has been able to lessen response time by ten percent (10%) and it has
also increased the number of customers that the van can service in a day, from
four customers to six.
There was once instance that the GPS Fleet Tracking Systemsent
Jernigan an email informing him that one of his trucks had a clogged fuel
injector. With this knowledge, Jernigan immediately sent the truck for repair.
He also measures the mileage information against the fuel consumption making
sure that his service drivers are on the road and not just sitting in their
vehicles. And since the GPS Fleet
Tracking Systemhas successfully
routed drivers more efficiently, the company has saved around $1,300 a month in
terms of fuel costs. Hence, with these savings, Jernigan has already recovered
his GPS Fleet Tracking Systeminvestment in just less than four
months.
The GPS Fleet
Tracking Systemalso has its
other benefits. Jernigan once received a call from an angry individual who had
seen one of his trucks peeling out from a bar’s parking lot and speeding at
around 80 miles per hour on a Sunday. Jernigan did not have any difficulty in
identifying the driver since he was able to pull up the information from his
GPS Fleet Tracking Systemtaking note of the time and day of the
occurrence. The employee was immediately fired for driving the company’s
vehicle while not in duty.
However, GPS Fleet
Tracking Systemhas also raised
some concerns among drivers in a fleet. Some of them feel that it is an
invasion of privacy. Hence, there are companies like United Parcel Service
(UPS) that sets expectations to their employees that the GPS equipment is only
used for tracking packages and not for employee evaluations.
Although it might seem that the benefits gained are only
for the company, Jernigan also emphasizes that their system has helped in
protecting their employees as well. There was one event that a client accused
the company for not showing up for a plumbing installation at a construction site.
However, the GPS fleet tracking system data proved that the crew really went
there on time and even waited for an hour but the general contractor never
showed up. The company then billed the client around $400 in wages and fuel
consumption. With this , the company’s employees have avoided getting caught in
between Jernigan and their client.
About the author
John Mahoney is a freelance author who writes about
various technology related subjects including Fleet Tracking. For more information about John visit his
website: www.techstore.ie
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