A GPS Fleet Management System should be designed
for service and distribution business who want an easy-to-use, cost effective,
scalable solution to manage their fleet.
It should have no software to buy or install; customers can simply
log in to the password protected website for quick, 24/7 access to real-time
information and management of their fleet from any web-enabled device.
Advantages of a Good System:
- 2-way dispatch and messaging application
- Vehicle routing and driving directions
- Vehicle maintenance report
- 12 real-time alerts
- Automated email report delivery
- 2 minute updates are standard
- 90 days of historical data archived
- No software to buy, or map controls to download
- One monthly service bill (No additional fees from wireless carriers)
Customers universally experience reduced
costs and increased overall operational efficiencies. Customers should experience
dramatic decreases in fuel usage, speeding, personal use of vehicles and
overtime. Combine this with significant increases in driver productivity and
customer service, and you’ve got a healthier bottom line.
- Increased driver productivity
- Real-time dispatch tool
- Decreased overtime
- Reduced fuel expenses
- Improved customer service
- Reduced response time
- More accurate billing
- Validation of service calls
- Benefits of virtual time-clock
- Lower insurance costs (5-15%)
- Decreased driver speeding
Mapping:
- View the location of a single vehicle or fleets and immediately see their status (moving, stopped and stop duration. Quickly find addresses and dispatch the closest vehicles.
- Hybrid mapping powered by Google™ with real-time traffic
- Send jobs and messages to mobiles by clicking vehicle icon
- Look up addresses, user-defined locations and zones
- Layer user-defined zones and locations on top of a map display
- “Ping” vehicle for position updates if needed between set intervals
Routing:
- Managers and dispatchers can create and save multi-point routes and directions. Managers can then easily view and edit driving directions and send them directly to the driver.
- Use a vehicle’s current location, a previously saved location or generate a new location using route points
- Organize route points in the order needed
- View the route and directions
- Create, name and save any number of customized routes
- Send driving directions directly to the drivers using the additional
- Marcus® Dispatch application
Alerts:
- Provides instantaneous email notification when user-definable violations occur. View easy-to read summaries of exceptions without sorting through other mail.
- Speeding:
- Odd hours of operation
- First movement of the day
- Arrival at location
- Departure from location
- Enter and exit zones
- Sensors (Idle, cargo door, lift, etc.)
- Extended Stop
- No movement
- Enter / exit zip code
- Excessive Idling
Customizable Reports - Tailored to Your Business Needs
Get all of the reporting capabilities listed below with a GPS Fleet Management System. This tremendous flexibility
provides detailed vehicle and driver information specific to your business
processes. Armed with the information in these customized reports, you will
make more informed decisions that will improve your customer service and bottom
line.
Report Features:
- Generate reports on the fly via website
- Automate email report delivery to key managers
- Store 90 days of data and run reports for:
- Any day, any week, any month
- Custom day/date range using drop-down calendar selector
- Single mobile or fleets
- Highlight report entries for stops exceeding your customized time limit
- Generate, print and email in multiple formats:
- Microsoft Excel
- Adobe PDF
- CSV Text
- HTML
2-way Messaging:
- The powerful 2-way messaging system provides all of the necessary tools to quickly create and send text messages to all of your drivers, and they can respond directly back.
- Send messages to connected in-vehicle device
- Manage all messages from a single screen
- Messages are sorted by driver for easy management
- Quickly reply to or delete messages with a single mouse click
- Easily create route directions and email them to your drivers, has both canned and free form send messages
Vehicle Maintenance:
- Set maintenance points for each vehicle or fleet of vehicles, type of service and duration with notifications that can be emailed when maintenance points are reached.
- Set maintenance points for each vehicle or the entire fleet
- Configure service types and duration in actual miles or elapsed time
- User defined maintenance lists such as oil changes, tire rotation, tune-ups, etc.
- Maintenance alerts can be emailed directly to your computer, handheld device, cell phone or pager
Administration:
Administrators can easily view and modify all aspects of
their users, drivers and managers from a single screen. Create and manage
customizable zones and locations with a few simple keystrokes.
- Zones and locations are resizable directly on the map
- Define / edit automated email report delivery
- Define / edit driver assignment to vehicle name
- Define / edit saved locations
- Define / edit zones
- Define user groups by fleet
- Define / edit vehicle names
- Define / edit fleets
- User interface preference selection
- Password management
A GPS Fleet Management System should be known as a user-friendly, intuitive, GPS tracking system in the fleet management
industry. Continual improvement based upon customer input has resulted in
balancing an affordable, extremely full-featured application with user simplicity
to maximize our customers’ value of time and resources.
Improve efficiency and boost profitability with a GPS Fleet Management System.
