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Q: Unauthorized company vehicle use during
the day with side trips.
A: Real-time: Report location and speed any number of times during the day (for example, every hour between 8 am through 6 pm). Real-time: Set up geographic boundaries and be notified if driver goes into or out of those areas/territories. Passive: See routes traveled and times on a colorful map to identify everywhere they've driven. If they drove to places not work-related, you'll know it. Savings: Vehicle wear & tear and gasoline. Cut down on overtime pay for drivers doing their own thing during the day out in the field. |
Q:Speeding in company vehicle
A:Real-time: Be notified if vehicle speeds over a preset MPH. Passive: See all speeds driven of all travel routes on a colorful map. Savings: Gasoline; Reduced chance of car accident. Note: Insurance discounts may be applicable as a result of your ability to enforce safer driving habits. |
Q: Moonlighting with company vehicles at night.
A: Real-time: Disable starter at a preset time weekdays (for example, at 6 pm). Real-time: Report location and speed any number of times during the weekday evenings (for example, 8 pm and 10 pm). Passive: See routes traveled and times on a colorful map to identify everywhere they've driven. If they drove the vehicle at night, you'll know it. Savings: Vehicle wear & tear and gasoline. |
Q: Drivers going home for long lunches.
A: Real-time: Report location and speed of vehicle during lunch hours more frequently (for example, every 10 minutes between 11am - 1 pm). Real-time: Set up geographic fence around driver's home and be notified when they enter and exit it. Passive: See routes traveled and times on a colorful map to identify everywhere they've driven. If they drove home for say, 3 hours, you'll know it. Savings: Regain formerly lost man hours. |
Q: Company vehicle theft.
A: Real-time: Be notified if vehicle's existing alarm goes off. Real-time: Set up geographic fence around your company where the vehicle is parked and be notified in evenings and weekends if the vehicle exits it. Real-time: In evenings, be notified if vehicle is driven more than 1/4 mile away from it's parking place at your company. Real-time: Disable starter for the weekend (for example, at 6 pm on Fridays through 6 am on Mondays). Real-time: Report location and speed any number of times during evenings (for example, 9 pm and midnight). Savings: Prevent vehicle theft or recover vehicle and its contents. |
Q: Verify Billing Time- Are you billing customers too much, or worse, not enough? How long did that service call take? Did a service actually take place? Until now, you've probably relied on paperwork or guesswork to know how much to bill a customer for your services. Those days are over! A: Passive: Print out a report of if a vehicle went to an address, when it was there and how long it was there. No driver input required. Have a printout of arrival and departure times at jobs. Savings: Accuracy of billable hours. |
Q: Be sure your salesman are out there selling and not just going home.
A: Passive: See routes traveled and times on a colorful map to identify everywhere they've driven. If they drove home for say, 3 hours, you'll know it. Savings: Employee productivity increases. |
Q: Service employees spending too little time at a job doing the needed quality work.
A: Passive: See addresses and times on a colorful map to identify everywhere they've been and how long they spent at each job site. Savings: Employee productivity and customer satisfaction increases. |
Q: Inefficient travels around town, overlapping the same areas each day.
A: Passive: See routes traveled and times on a colorful map to identify inefficiencies. Savings: Vehicle wear & tear and gasoline. |
Q: Having to keep checking vehicle mileage to know when needed maintenance is due.
A: Real-time: Have vehicle report to you when a specific number of miles have been traveled. Or have it report to you when a specific number of hours of engine on-time have passed. Savings: Scheduled vehicle maintenance keeps them operating at peak efficiency and they'll last longer. |
Q: Having a driver call in from the field saying that he/she locked the keys in the vehicle.
A: Real-time: You use the internet to remotely unlock the doors for him/her. Or you or he/she can use a cell phone or land line to remotely unlock the doors. It's possible for the driver to stand next to the vehicle with a cell phone and unlock the doors him/herself !! Savings: You won't have to take the time to go unlock the doors for the driver out in the field. Real-time: Have vehicle report to you if the vehicle's battery falls below a specific voltage (for example, 10.5 volts). Savings: You won't have to go jump start a vehicle out in the field because you'll know before hand that there's a problem with the vehicle's battery or electrical system. |
Q: You need a vehicle to go to a job. Which one is closer to it right now to go to it ?
A: Real-time: You use the internet or any telephone to see where each vehicle is right now. Then contact the appropriate driver and have them go to the job. Savings: Gasoline; manpower; time. |
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