GPS Car Tracking Systems

Companies and individuals more and more are turning to GPS Car Tracking Systems or Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to find out where their car or fleet vehicles are or have been. GPS is a satellite-based navigation system that can pin point the location, speed and direction of a vehicle anywhere on the globe. Not like the cellular communications that often run into “dead spots,” GPS receivers and satellites are always able to keep a strong locks. This is possible even in areas with very dense foliage or urban settings with tall buildings.
GPS tracking can help in more ways than one.

Control the high cost of labour
Companies can now get a hold on labor costs with the help of GPS tracking. This is even more important when overtime is involved. When a employees on the road they typically keep their own vehicle history records and use a timecard to write their hours down for each week. With the GPS system, those timecards are replaced by precise reports printed straight from a computer, which list the history of each vehicle from the time it started to the time it finished, including how many stops it made and the length of each stop. Thus work can be verified and analyzed. It can also eliminate costly mistakes.

Increase the efficiency of the fleet
With the aid of GPS tracking, it is easy to determine an individual or group’s average length of a service stop; or analyze a service stop vs. non-service stop; or the actual length of a service call or installation. Corrective measures based on this information gets job productivity up and wasted time and inefficiency down. More money can be saved and a company can run more efficient by investing in a fleet tracking system.

Bring down those high fuel bills
Speed is a killer for a fuel budget. GPS tracking information attacks high fuel bills in three areas: Controlling Speeding, Idling and Unauthorized Use. Tracking data is captured for all three items allowing fleet managers to take steps to address these and measure the results of their actions. As a result, fuel consumption and costs can drop dramatically. Speeding increases your maintenance, fleet insurance premiums, fuel expense, gas mileage and your liability when an accident occurs. With GPS tracking there is no need to rely on the public to report unsafe drivers.

Control the use of the fleet (Moonlighting)
Always ensure your fleet vehicles are being used for work related purposes. GPS tracking units monitor who, what, where and when your vehicles are or have been. This puts controls on unauthorized usage and moonlighting.

Ensure the vehicle and cargo security
Imagine knowing where your cargo is at all times. Tracking where your cargo is and where it has been is key to ending theft. Every year companies lose over billions a year because of cargo thefts. And much of this happens during transit. Tracking systems can play a major role in preventing both vehicle & cargo thefts as well as aiding recovery.

Remove and resolve billing disputes
On-time delivery is very import to a business and can be costly if a shipment arrives late. With a GPS System, arrival and departure times are recorded. Determine exactly when your vehicle arrived and departed from a customer’s address.

The detailed, accurate information available from GPS has made it popular within aviation, sea navigation, various outdoor activities and sports, and automotive vehicles. There are numerous benefits of GPS tracking for managing transportation fleets and the cost has become affordable in recent years.

More and more companies are turning to Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to improve their outside sales force productivity. This article looks at what sales managers have found to be the major benefits of equipping their sales people with GPS technology.

Find out where your customers are quickly and easily
A feature that has made vehicle GPS systems famous is the ability to not know a destination yet still arrive safety and on time. If you just want to type in an address and go, there’s nothing like GPS. Salespeople are finding GPS mapping hardware and software with step-by-step guides helpful in locating the exact address of customers in unfamiliar areas. With a receiver and mapping software they can avoid delays due to heavy traffic, construction work, or road accidents so that they arrive on time and ready to do business. GPS technology helps sales people arrive unflustered, unscathed and on time.

The detailed, accurate information available from GPS has made it popular within aviation, sea navigation, various outdoor activities and sports, and automotive vehicles. GPS equipment has become highly affordable over the past few years and Sales Managers have begun discovering the benefits of equipping their sales force with this technology.

There are more benefits than not to investing in a GPS system that can not only increase your bottom line, but also make your business and life safer. From the smalls fleet to the largest fleet, GPS systems have something to offer. You may want to make your fleet GPS system a little fun by adding celebrity voices to them.