FleetMatics has saved our Company fuel and labor costs from the very first day we implemented the gps tracking system. The biggest benefit has been the drastic improvement in our actual response time to our clients that rely on us to be on site sometimes at a moment’s notice for porter services or last minute cleaning requests. We can rapidly locate the closest vehicle, and have been able to get our staff onsite in 30 minutes or less! Whistle Building Maintenance was recently featured [...]
A few months ago, one of our drivers was preparing to leave for a delivery, only to find that his truck was not in our parking lot where it should have been. Realizing that the truck had been stolen, we quickly checked FleetMatics gps tracking software to try to track the truck. Sure enough, we were able to find the exact location. We called the police and gave them all the information we had retrieved from FleetMatics, and one of the owners of our company drove out to meet [...]
I just installed FleetMatics in my company vehicles. Here is how it went down. I told my Chauffeurs that we needed to have a maintenance day for all of our vehicles and that I wanted to get all of the vehicles detailed and waxed the same day. I tried to make it fun for them so I offered a company sponsored breakfast accompanied by a meeting as well. None of them had any idea what was really going on. Now, without GPS tracking units actually being on the vehicles, I still told the new drivers that [...]
Saturday, March 3rd 2012, started out like many Saturdays for our salesman, Gregg… heading into the office to spend a couple hours tying up the loose ends. Turning into our parking lot Gregg’s eyes were drawn to a mess of steel and wood that used to be our security gate. Not turning into his usual spot, Gregg eased his pickup through the parking lot studying the damage. As he got closer, what had happened became apparent. Someone had driven a vehicle through our gate… from [...]
Caught a $2200 payroll discrepancy the first week we used the FleetMatics gps tracking system.
We have also been able to track our employees’ every moves, eliminating unnecessary stops and off route driving. Now every truck goes from our office to the jobs and back to the office. We have dropped fuel usage by 15% equating to a minimum of 5 times more in fuel savings than FleetMatics monthly fee.
We were having a lot of fuel usage so I started watching the fuel purchases closely and 2 vehicles were getting an average of 4 to 6 mpg when others were getting 14 to 17 mpg. I confronted the 2 drivers about why their vans were getting such bad fuel mileage. The fuel stops just happened to be close to their home address (imagine that). So after I confronted them, their vans miraculously started getting a lot better fuel mileage! I couldn't ever prove anything because the gas stations [...]
We've only had the units installed for a week and it's already alerted us to some concerning issues. We had about 40% of our drivers with excessive speeds. Of course, they denied it and I let them know that I was just bringing it to their attention so they could drive more responsibly and pay attention to posted speed limits. By JUST DISCUSSING it with them, the speeding has almost ceased!! As for our other find, we had an employee who doesn't report to the office but [...]
I have FleetMatics’ truck tracking units in all of my vehicles. My company does Oilfield Personnel Transport. I use the iPhone app several times daily. If one of my customers call and want to know what time we are going to arrive at the destination, I can easily go to my app and see exactly where the vehicle is located. I also love the POI feature. When hiring new drivers it is nice to be able to give them a printout of a map to any destination that we have been to [...]
When I first put trackers on the company trucks, my employees didn't know. Since we work out of state, I found out who was cheating on work times, going to bars, and using company trucks to drive three hundred miles on the weekend without an “OK” and with me buying the fuel. Then I had a meeting, explained there had been trackers on the trucks for the last 5 weeks, and went over everybody’s sins giving them a chance to repent. I made some pay me for fuel and mileage if they [...]
After having two skidsteers stolen off of jobsites both within one week, we decided to install GPS tracking units on all of our smaller equipment. We've had them on our trucks for quite a while, but weren't sure if they would work on our equipment. We are located in Cincinnati, OH but do a large amount of work in Dayton, OH and the Northern Kentucky area and continue to branch out further and further from our home location. A few months ago we were contracted to work up [...]