Changes to Fuel Costs in the UK make it the ideal time to save money with vehicle tracking

In the 2009 budget Alistair Darling announced that fuel duty will increase from September 2009 by 2p per litre. This is an added cost to your company if you run a fleet of vehicles.

Vehicle tracking can help you to save the fuel used by your company vehicles so investing in this now, before the change in fuel costs, is a great idea. Not only will your company save money now but the impact of the change to fuel duty in September will be greatly reduced.

The fuel saving benefits of vehicle tracking can be achieved in a number of ways:

1. Monitor vehicle usage and reduce the amount of times company vehicles are used for personal reasons
2. Plan better driver routes, providing the most cost effective method of reaching your customers without making countless round trips
3. Track driver behaviour and make sure drivers are trained to not drive in a cost wasting way - such as excessive speed or leaving the vehicle idling

Find out how you can beat the fuel duty increase by contacting us today.

Educating your staff to use vehicle tracking software

As we have already discussed, the money saving benefits of vehicle tracking software are great, so in this blog we thought we'd cover helping to make vehicle tracking part of your staff’s day to day working life.

If your company has not previously used any form of vehicle tracking, implementing this might come as a culture shock to your staff. So here are some benefits to help them see that your new fleet management tool can help them as well.

Better route planning - rather than sending your drivers all over the place and making them double back on themselves Trimble's vehicle tracking software allows you to plot routes that save them time.

Driver to Office two way communication - let the driver communicate (without mobile phone charges) any issues with deliveries or customers.

Hour monitoring - don't need to fill in timesheets manually as the system does this for them, reduces paper work needed.

Vehicle Maintenance - reassurance that regular maintenance will be carried out on all vehicles meaning that they are not having the frustrations of broken down vans or nagging to get a vehicle serviced.

Vehicle tracking devices aren't just for the fleet manager, they help drivers too.

The Benefits of Vehicle Tracking using Geo Manager

Geo Manager is one of the Vehicle tracking solutions on offer form Trimble.

Geo Manager offers a wide range of benefits for your fleet including:

Plot the location of your mobile workers in real time with our MapView option

Exception reporting allows you to track driver behaviour and be alerted when your drivers break a set of rules that you can customise – such as a set speed.

Two Way Messaging allows you to keep in contact with your staff when they are on the road. This can help when new jobs come in.

Our Workflow status allows you to view the status of your employees

Using Trimble’s Geo Manager vehicle tracking in your business can save you money, time and help to monitor the safety of your fleet in real time.