Disease are the things that don’t differentiate between rich and poor; it can happen to anyone. Talking about the disease, how can we forget to mention Covid, which has taken the world by storm. Covid has caused a million deaths and has broken the back of many businesses. It doesn’t matter how high the market is. Managing a business is never easy and operating a fleet is even more challenging. Here, we will get to know that a fleet management system can help commercial vehicles manage their group of cars.
The right and useful technology can give fleet organizations an upper hand in this competitive world. In the post-2020 world, organizations can reap more benefits of this technology, which they couldn’t use fully this year. From the past 2-3 years, many small and medium fleet-based companies have adopted this technology and integrated the GPS tracking system in their fleet. This adoption signals an upward trend in the use of a GPS vehicle tracking system for fleet management.
Due to theft cases, fear of commercial security, and convenience, GPS tracker has become more of a necessity than a luxury for car fleet owners, particularly for cab fleet owners. As we all know that many people who don’t have personal vehicles sometimes take cabs to travel. In this scenario, cab fleet owners must integrate GPS tracker into their business. After all, its the responsibility of cab owners to ensure the security of the passengers.
Why is there a need for GPS?
Business owners rely on their vehicles so much that sometimes they send assets worth millions through their car or truck to their clients. Here the role of the GPS tracking device becomes critical. GPS device secures the vehicle, and it also secures the valuables inside. Here I’m listing five reasons why a GPS fleet tracking system is necessary for businesses:
1. Real-Time:
Once you install the GPS vehicle tracking system in your vehicle, it sends you the exact location of your truck or car. You can see the live location of the vehicle from anywhere.
2. Anti-Theft Alerts:
This is the feature that can save you millions. We are not unaware that these days COVID impacts have snatched the sleep of fleet owners. Whether it’s day or night, they’re always busy calculating the pandemic’s negative impacts on their business. GPS tracker can’t get your losses back. However, it can reduce your losses by giving you anti-theft alerts whenever someone tries to unlock your vehicle. To understand it more clearly, let’s take an example.
Suppose you have sent a consignment to a place located very far from you, so it’s evident that during such a long journey, your driver will feel a little tired sometimes. Due to this, he will stop at a nearby restaurant between the route. While he’s sitting and eating food in the restaurant, a suspicious person who comes near the vehicle tries to unlock it due to greed, taking some of the assets from inside. In this situation, if you have a GPS tracker installed in your vehicle, your driver will get an instant alert so that he can stop this incident.
3. Affordable:
Many people think a technology that secures the vehicle, give timely alerts must be very expensive, which isn’t true. With the investment of as little as INR 3K, you can secure your assets worth millions. It is convenient for fleet owners because whether you’re a car fleet owner or a truck fleet owner, transport vehicles don’t come cheap. Now you must be wondering that I have talked about the GPS fleet tracking system’s affordability but why I’m suddenly writing about vehicles’ price. If you see the car’s average cost, you will know that securing the vehicle in only INR3K is a very low-cost solution if you compare it to the car’s price.
4. Route Optimization:
Nobody can understand the value of time better than a fleet owner as they have the pressure of delivering products on time to their client. To achieve this, they must get their timings right, and to get their timings right; the drivers must take a time-saving route. Here the role of this feature becomes important. Suppose you have instructed your driver to take the assets from a specific route, but your driver changed the route between the journey. In this case, you get instant notification on your mobile through which you can call him and instruct him again to take the route suggested by you. This feature can help maintain a long and healthy relationship with all your clients.
5. Driver Monitoring:
With the pressure of delivery on the fleet manager, unsafe driving behaviors like overspeeding, rapid acceleration, etc., can make things from bad to worse. Once you install a fleet managing device in your vehicle, you can set a speed limit of your choice. Whenever your driver exceeds the speed limit you have set, you will get a notification, and with that alert, you can inform him to slow down.
Conclusion
Covid has impacted everyone, whether you’re wealthy, poor, individual, or a fleet owner; it has broken everyone’s back, at least financially if not in other aspects. Integrating a fleet management system into your business won’t get you back the losses you have already experienced. However, it can save your vehicle from theft, overspeeding, financial loss, etc. Hence, a GPS tracker is a must-buy gadget for every fleet owner.