Vehicle Tracking Blog - News and Tips for Using Vehicle Tracking from Trimble

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

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:29:00 +0000

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:

Monitor vehicle usage and reduce the amount of times company vehicles are used for personal reasons
Plan better driver routes, providing the most cost effective method of reaching your customers without making countless round trips
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

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:09:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:02:00 +0000

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.

Are you manually performing fleet management?

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:57:00 +0000

If you are responsible for managing your company fleet it might be refreshing to know that you can save time for the other jobs on your list by using Vehicle Tracking.

Trimble Vehicle Tracking offers a wide range of benefits to fleet managers, including in dept reporting about driver behaviour and vehicle maintenance.

Planning and booking vehicle maintenance can be time consuming and can sometime fall by the way-side in a busy company. Let Trimble Vehicle Tracking take the strain and plan your fleet management for you.

Increase productivity by monitoring driver behaviour and routes with real time tracking, route planning and vehicle status information.

There's no need for you to manually manage your fleet, contact Trimble today to find out more about how our Vehicle Tracking can benefit you.

Driver Safety and Your Fleet - How Vehicle Tracking can help

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:30:00 +0000

If you run a fleet of vehicles for your business you have to be aware of driver safety.

There are two sides to the driver safety requirements for your business.

The first is your fleet of vehicles you need to ensure that your vehicles are regularly maintained and are in good working order. New regulations in the UK mean that the company can be tried in court following any fatal accidents involving your vehicles, so ensuring that you have a high level of vehicle maintenance and a safe fleet is important to protect your business. Vehicle tracking software from Trimble can help you plan regular maintenance for all of your vehicles.

Alongside this is the driver themselves. Ensuring that your drivers are not driving in a dangerous way, and causing a potential safety risk for themselves and people around them, is also an important part of Fleet Management. Our Vehicle Tracking Software enables you to track the driving styles of your drivers and can also send you an alert if a given rule (such as a speed) is broken or deviated from. This gives you real time and historical data about the driving styles of your staff ensuring you can address any issues before they become serious.

Reducing unnecessary overtime with vehicle tracking

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:30:00 +0000

We're all trying to save money for our businesses at this difficult time, and cutting your overtime costs is one way of doing this.

Vehicle tracking software - like Trimble's TrimWeb - will help you to reduce this outlay, whilst still getting the same level of work done.

Here are some ways you can cut overtime

Plan better routes for your drivers, avoiding road works, traffic jams and making sure that the closest driver to the job is assigned to any new work you get in. Planning better routes will also reduce the time between stops and reduce idle times.

Monitoring the status of your vehicles to ensure you are making the most of each driver's working day.

Year End Nightmares? Vehicle Tracking Software could be the answer to your prayers

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:58:00 +0000

If you're running through your year end at the moment, frantically trying to tidy everything up for April and your driver logs are causing your no end of headaches, then why not try Vehicle Tracking Software from Trimble?

TrimWeb or GeoManager both offer full, customisable reporting, meaning at you not only have on demand reports but full monthly reporting as well, meaning that at year end the answers to your driver related questions are at hand including:

Number of trips
Private Miles Driven
Hours worked per driver

Meaning you've one less thing to worry about.

Increase your productivity

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:34:00 +0000

Vehicle tracking systems don't just help with the costs of running your mobile business. You can also increase your daily productivity with a good gps vehicle tracking system

Increasing productivity is about more than cost savings.

Vehicle tracking systems which provide you with real time vehicle positions and reports on time between jobs, such as Trimble's MRM, will enable you to assign jobs better.

Getting the nearest driver to a job when you are unsure of the current location of all of your drivers can be a logistical nightmare.

Vehicle Tracking from Trimble enables you to see all of your vehicle in real time. This will reduce the amount of time it takes to respond to new or emergency jobs, which will increase your customer satisfaction levels and help you to retain business.

The increases to your productivity will enable your business to deliver more jobs per day as well as speeding up response times.

Find out more about the benefits of vehicle tracking to your business – request a call back today.

Trimble Attend Geo-9 Events 1-2 April, Ricoh Arena, Coventry

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:48:00 +0000

In April of this year Trimble will be showcasing their Vehicle tracking software at the Geo-9 event in Coventry. The Geo-9 event is the UK’s only dedicated geospatial show and is free to attend.

Trimble's GPS Vehicle Tracking solutions are the perfect Geospatial products for fleet management and offer businesses the ideal way to reduce fleet costs and manage mobile staff, with a full suit of customisable reports and real time vehicle tracking. Trimble's fleet management solutions are easy to install and use and pay for themselves within three months.

Why not visit Trimble to discuss Vehicle Tracking devices at Geo-9 at the begining of April to find out more.

Top 3 Cost Savings with Vehicle Tracking

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:36:00 +0000

Did you know there are many areas Vehicle Tracking can save you money? Here are our top 3 cost savings:

Reducing Fuel Costs

Cut out unauthorised use of vehicles
Reduced Mileage
Take action when driver safety issues are identified

Cutting Overtime

Monitor the hours worked by drivers

Route Planning and Job assignment

Get the most from the working day
Do more jobs in a day
Improve customer satisfaction/repeat business

Within 3 months of starting to use Trimble's Vehicle Tracking software, you will find it's paid for itself and you are making real savings for your business.

New Pay as you Track Vehicle Tracking Service

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:40:00 +0000

Want to try Vehicle Tracking from Trimble without signing a contract? We are please to announce a new "pay-as-you-track" service for our vehicle tracking solutions.

All you have to do is buy the vehicle tracking software upfront and sign up for 3 months. Once you have experienced the benefits of Trimble's vehicle tracking software for this 3 month trial period you pay monthly for the service and can cancel at anytime.

3 months is the optimum time for seeing the real benefits of our vehicle tracking software and will enable you to start seeing how we can help you:

Know where your vehicles are at anytime
Track the number of hours your staff are working
Monitor personal fuel usage
Report, in real time, the fuel savings, vehicle usage and how your business is running with our online service.

Call us today on 0845 450 5995 quoting "pay-as-you-track" to start saving now!

Please note:

Minimum 3 month period
3 months and hardware costs must be paid up-front
After 3 months contracts will continue on a month by month basis until cancelled in writing one month before termination
Removal of installed products costs £60 +VAT
No rebates are available on used hardware
Non payment will result in the software access being switched off.
Offer subject to availability

Trimble Vehicle Tracking to Attend Ocean Business 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:19:00 +0000

Southampton United Kingdom
Mar 31 - Apr 02

Trimble will be showcasing it's vehicle tracking solutions at Ocean Business in Southampton at the end of March 2009.

Trimble's Vehicle Tracking software is not only great for fleet management but has other, practical applications in a wide range of industries including:

Agriculture
Construction
Mapping and GIS
Mining
Surveying

Trimble offer a wide range of services to help businesses have complete control over their vehicles, whatever use they are put to, and make the process of managing a fleet easier and less time consuming.

Come along to Ocean Business 2009 to see how Trimble vehicle tracking can help your business to save money.

The Benefits of TrimWeb Vehicle Tracking

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:31:00 +0000

TrimWeb is Trimble's online Vehicle Tracking software which enables you to perform fleet management tasks, with an eye on costs and safety, quickly and easily and allows you to reduce costs, increase productivity and maintain your fleet at the touch of a button.

TrimWeb is a low cost real-time website, which gives you access to the status of your fleet and reports on performance. TrimWeb Vehicle Tracking quickly pays for itself as you will be able to plan routes and monitor driver behaviour and fuel usage, enabling you to reduce your monthly spending on fuel.

TrimWeb Vehicle Tracking also offers the following services:

Quarterly map updates, enabling you to see new road builds and potential alternative routes
Optional email and messaging services allowing you to keep in contact with your fleet at all times
Driver Activity Logs, includes speed thresholds which enable you to track potential driver safety issues
Real time monitoring of vehicles allowing you to improve customer service by knowing where all vehicles are at all times.
Unlimited user logins
Full Vehicle tracking, including status of vehicles (stopped, running but not moving, moving, etc) and Delivery information (number of stops, stop status, last known position etc)

Find out more about the TrimWeb service now by requesting a call back from our vehicle tracking team.

More about Trimble's Vehicle Tracking Software Fuel Saving Capabilities

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:02:00 +0000

The Trimble Vehicle Tracking Software has some real Feul saving capabilities to help with your fleet management so we thought we'd go into more detail of what benefits you will see here:

Map Function - Using this function, fleet managers and supervisors can review drivers' routes for a specific time frame, giving them the ability to quickly identify drivers who use bad routes, divert from their route and therefore waste fuel

Activity Report - This report provides a comprehensive review of locations, status, speeds, distances driven and stop times which helps document driving behavior and offers a better understanding of when drivers start and stop their working day and if they are using their vans after hours for personal use, wasting company fuel.

DriveSafe Report - DriveSafe provides you with insight in to your individual driver's behaviour through measuring key manoeuvres such as:

Speed when cornering
Acceleration from stopped position
Average Speed
Deceleration when braking

These manoeuvres not only cause accidents but also increase wear and tear on the vehicle and waste fuel so recognising and then stopping these is very important.

Vehicle Maintenance - Not keeping your vehicles in good condition can seriously harm the vehicle and is a prime reason for increased fuel use. By measuring the mileage of vehicles and setting limits as to how many miles vehicles can do before checks and services should be carried out helps you manage this process and bring down your fuel costs.

Mobile Vehicle Management

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:59:00 +0000

Trimble can help you save money and time on running your fleet. From cutting fuel costs to ensuring the safety of your workers and vehicles.

Using the Trimble Vehicle Tracking Suit you can:

View your fleet in real time via our secure site

Reduce fuel costs and maintenance expense by more than 12%

Allocate a job to the worker nearest to the site

Monitor and achieve quick savings and see your ROI

Trimble's Vehicle Tracking is easy to use and quick to install enabling you to get going quickly.

Full reports are available to help you with fleet management and benefits include:

The ability to identify safety issues and address them before they become a problem

Full Fleet Management, including scheduling regular maintenance to reduce costs relating to managing your fleet.

Real time reporting and job assignment, ensuring you can assign the right driver to a job and choose the quickest route to all your customers or sites.

TrimWeb - Vehicle Tracking to help you save money

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:49:00 +0000

Trimble is now offering the TrimWeb solution as part of our Vehicle Tracking solutions. TrimWeb is designed to help with fleet management and enable you to reduce fuel and other operating costs associated with the running of any fleet based company.

Lowering your costs, by running a more efficient fleet will help with all elements of your business including customer service, and the productivity of your workforce.

TrimWeb and GeoManager from Trimble both provide easy to use, reliable fleet management solutions on demand for a range of industries including, transportation, telecommunications, utilities, construction and facilities management.

Find out more about the Vehicle Tracking software available from Trimble today and request a callback.

@Road rebrands as Trimble MRM and grows European sales team

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:54:00 +0000

@Road, the leading provider of end to end solutions for mobile resource management (MRM), has rebranded as Trimble Mobile Resource Management ("Trimble MRM"). The new name is a natural development for @Road following its acquisition by Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB) in February 2007 and creates a one stop shop for businesses wanting to optimize fleet performance and service delivery. In addition, the move has been accompanied by the continued expansion of the European office with three new appointments to the Ipswich based sales team.

Trimble MRM combines a wealth of experience and products in GPS Vehicle tracking, with the backing of a global company. Through the use of state-of-the-art technologies, its easy to use solutions can help meet individual fleet management requirements, reducing operating costs while increasing mobile worker productivity and customer service. Following the acquisition, solutions now encompass a range of flexible options from standard vehicle tracking to those including capabilities like WiFi hotspots and specialised reporting.

One product already introduced by Trimble into Europe from America is TrimWeb vehicle tracking, offering businesses of all sizes simple and effective vehicle tracking from just 71 pence per day, all inclusive. The company is also demonstrating its continued commitment to the end to end management of field resources with the v8 launch of its best in class scheduling product, Taskforce, the first new solution to be offered under the Trimble MRM banner.

Andrew Yeoman, Managing Director of EMEA, said "I am delighted to announce this re-brand alongside the continued expansion of our European office. The endorsement of the Trimble name, together with our new appointments, gives us a fantastic platform from which to continue to grow, offering the European market the very best in Fleet Management solutions.

"In particular, the combination of @Road and Trimble expertise has already meant that we can now offer something for everyone. Whatever their size, Trimble MRM can help businesses address a variety of issues from reducing fuel consumption to fleet safety and even help them meet health and safety requirements."

Trimble was founded in 1978 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, has a worldwide presence with more than 3,600 employees in over 18 countries.

For further information please request a callback

Trimble fuel saving capabilities

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:37:00 +0000

Trimble Vehicle Tracking Solutions can help a company cut excess fuel use and reduce operating costs through a number of efficiency enhancing features of it's tracking products.

Once tracking has been fitted to a companies vehicles, you can not only get a real time view of your vehicles over the internet but you can use all the reporting features to help you reduce your fuel costs.

Request a callback from our team of Vehicle Tracking experts today, to find out how your fleet can save money.

Going Green - Fleet Management

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Another major issue for fleet operators is going green. Legislation and individual responsibility mean we all need to become accountable for what we put in to the atmosphere. For those running fleets, vehicle usage means fuel which in turn means CO2 and it is vital that drivers understand the environmental impact of using excessive fuel, as the less fuel consumed, the fewer CO2 emissions.

Green fleets are good for the planet and good for business: running an inefficient fleet can mean additional costs of up to 35% which hits you where it hurts - on the bottom line. Well run fleets can reduce these costs significantly.

Contact Trimble Vehicle Tracking about Fleet Management today.

Corporate Manslaughter

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:56:00 +0000

From 6th April 2008 companies found guilty of causing death due to health and safety negligence can be fined unlimited amounts of money. This new law puts the onus firmly on the employer to ensure they are protecting their employees and the public from any danger they may face from the company's activity. If there was a work related death, the responsibility is shifted on to senior management to prove there was no negligence on the part of them or the company otherwise charges could be brought.

The law only has to prove that a high proportion of the cause of the accident was due to internal procedures and senior managers and directors will be held accountable.

In terms of companies running small or large fleets, it is exceptionally important that drivers and vehicles are the safest they can be and that you comply with Health & Safety legislation.

There are steps you can take to mitigate the risk of a corporate manslaughter claim by taking the safety of your drivers and the public seriously and using preventative measures and constant monitoring to avoid problems. A good Vehicle Tracking System will enable you to ensure that your fleet is safe.