Many businesses facing increasing costs in a poor economy are turning to GPS Fleet Tracking to help them better manage their vehicles. Fleet managers see the cost of fuel, insurance, maintenance, and payroll increasing dramatically. With GPS Fleet Tracking, real time location data and other vehicle specific information can be transmitted from the vehicle in real time. This can help the fleet manager and dispatcher identify problems that could ordinarily cost the company money, but with the help of GPS Fleet Tracking, save money now and in the future.

Rising oil prices & tracking systems.

When companies have to face unexpected economic issues, salvation can come from simple technologic solutions. With the unpredictable costs of oil and then gasoline, many businesses are threatened. Businesses dealing with transportation and vehicles are particularly affected. However, many companies provide goods and services which in a very hard and highly competitive economical context can make the difference between failure and success.

Rising oil prices & inevitable innovations.

If you are a professional in the transportation sector or using your own fleet of vehicles or even just a driver, you will have notice some changes. As you are reading this article, oil prices and then gasoline costs are fluctuating. After an astronomical increase of oil prices in 2008, then a sudden fall 2009, prices are getting high again. It affects daily car users of course. But this volatility is also a real threat for companies. Unfortunately you can’t avoid or predict all the factors which cause such instability: war and revolutions in Middle East can be a good example of our lack of control. But you can anticipate the consequences and optimize your resilience to gas price fluctuations.

Fleet tracking system & cut corners.

Time is money and fuel is money. More you waste time more you waste some fuel, and more you lose money. But tracking your fleet helps to avoid those wastes of time and gas. Professionals estimate that a good and efficient fleet racking can reduce until 20% your fuel expenditures.

One reason is that a better organization of your fleet will let you know where is each vehicle, if it is late, if it is stuck in traffic jams. For example, if a deliverer is stuck in traffic jams: you will be able to know where he is, if he will be on time, to change his itinerary in consequence, or send another vehicle by another way and make the first one come back. Thanks to GPS vehicle tracking professionals, the improvement of your organization will allow you to dispatch more efficiently drivers and vehicles. It will reduce the global distance covered by your fleet (and indirectly your fuel expenditures).

A second reason is that fleet trackers and their monitoring solutions allow observing drivers habits. Those habits highly affect gasoline costs: a driver accelerating on small distance due to traffic will cost you more than a driver with a stable average speed. A tracker system will also make possible to manage you driver speed (no more speed tickets) or to check if they are driving using the most economical speed. According to an actor’s study of the sector, in six months one of their costumer saved until 79 000$ of fuel expenditures thanks to their fleet tracker goods and services. The fleet tracking ROI has never been as obvious as today.

NexTraq’s mission is to provide the telematics industry with the highest-value GPS fleet tracking solution, while providing customers with the data they need to run their fleets efficiently and positively impact their business. All operations, including product design, manufacturing, application development, finance and support are based in the United States. NexTraq’s cloud-based platform was developed directly from 10 plus years of fleet managers’ feedback and delivers sophisticated fleet tracking technologies wrapped in a simple to use application.