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Smart Video, Smart Drivers: Modern Fleet Safety

Dash cams and smart video backed by AI and machine learning is helping businesses make impactful changes, especially when integrated with telematics technology.

Business Management

How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Field Service

The predicted industry shifts that will be made possible by AI and machine learning within the next ten years are leaving many owners with more questions than answers, new obstacles to overcome and...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Contractors Improve Utilization with GPS Tracking

With the right tools - like GPS tracking from Verizon Connect, contractors can improve fleet utilization and become more productive and efficient.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Government Fleets Transform with Data Insights

Whether it’s for analyzing the effectiveness of programs and activities or making data-driven decisions, access to performance metrics and the health and utilization of your fleet is key.

Safety & Security

Safety Is a Big Problem for Oil and Gas Fleets

Motor vehicle crashes are responsible for 29% of all work-related deaths in the oil and gas industry.Oil and gas fleets are increasingly using telematics solutions to overcome recurring issues to improve...

Business Management

Telematics Drives Macro and Micro Data Insights

For field service organizations, the ability to learn from statistics, situations and scenarios related to vehicles, drivers and customers is an important asset in the drive to streamline operations...

Business Management

Go from Reactive to Strategic in Field Service

Field Technologies’ special issue “Embracing Modern Field Service” dives deep into how and why a strategic approach that intentionally capitalizes on a broad range of digital tools can deliver big benefits...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Three Ways Telematics Makes It Easy to Be “Green”

In the face of ever-growing state and federal regulations around sustainable fleet management and carbon emissions, owners and managers in many field services industries (e.g. HVAC, plumbing, electrical...

Safety & Security

How Artificial Intelligence Will Move Trucking

AI is making businesses smarter and trucking more efficient, cushioning the bottom line for many companies and helping them proactively avoid problems instead of reacting to incidents that could otherwise...

Business Management

Webinar: Digital Transformation for Profit Growth

The webinar, “Increase Business Profits with a Digital Transformation,” sponsored by Verizon Connect, focused on digital transformation in terms of what that means for small businesses in a service...

Business Management

What Makes a Best-in-Class Field Service Fleet?

Field service management software eliminates the need to make multiple phone call to learn workers’ locations or to get updates on jobs, which means you’re able to optimize scheduling and deployment...

Compliance

An ROI Checklist: Your Fleet Management Solution

To recognize true ROI from your fleet management solution implentation, it’s important to first define what it means in relation to the utilization and then identify the key areas to measure within...

Compliance

Get Your Fleet Ready for ELD 2.0

The very existence of ELD technology is changing the enforcement environment landscape, impacting what inspectors look for and creating a new breed of service violations for which a carrier can be fined...

Business Management

The unique landscape of oil & gas fleet management

Telematics is uniquely equipped to help oil and gas fleets access these key data points and make them actionable to enhance their businesses in 2019, such as vehicle usage, equipment and trailer usage...

Business Management

Know Where Your GPS Tracking Solution Comes From

Where you get your technology matters. As a company with extensive resources in research and development, Verizon Connect is able to pay close attention to the subtle differences in needs between industries...

Business Management

Nine Ways to Make Truck Fleet Management Smarter

There are plenty of fleet management solutions out there but how many are actually suitable for fleets running heavy-duty trucks? The reality is no...

Business Management

Resolve to Be a Best-in-Class Fleet in 2019

Looking at the impact of fleet management software on driver behavior and operational efficiency in field service businesses, the Fleet Technology Trends Report found that data-driven fleets saw more...

Safety & Security

Protect Your Trailers & Cargo in 2019

Here are some helpful suggestions on how you can prevent trailer theft and protect your assets in 2019...

Business Management

6 Benefits of Telematics for Public Fleets

From finding fleet funding and streamlining fuel costs to grappling with vehicle utilization and maintenance, public fleets are often forced to find innovative ways to stretch thinning budgets and do...

Business Management

Key to Sustainability and Growth: Your Back Office

We’re offering a few suggestions on how using telematics in your home office can help cut costs, while promoting growth and sustainability to produce better business outcomes for your operation...

Business Management

Your 2019 Resolution: A Data-Driven Fleet

Explore how the right fleet management software provides reports that can help translate mountains of data into truly actionable insights to drive improvement in your organization...

Business Management

Crack the Code to Reducing Your Expenses

Visibility and understanding of your operational costs, inefficiencies and other areas for improvement, including safe driving behavior and vehicle health, are critical to managing your business and...

Safety & Security

Prepare for the Season of Greater Driving Hazards...

As colder months and harsh weather creep in and traffic increases due to holiday travel, it’s the perfect time to prepare your fleet drivers and vehicles for the road ahead.

Business Management

How Tech Can Empower Next-Gen Police Fleets

Technology and data play an important role in both modernizing police fleets and helping keep officers (and citizens) safer...

Business Management

Verizon Connect in the Spirit of Giving Tuesday

Getting involved in local communities through volunteering and financial giving in embedded in the fabric of Verizon’s culture, and Verizon Connect is well on its way to making significant contributions...

Business Management

Evaluate Your Year with These Key Fleet Metrics

Evaluate your year in field service with these key metrics from your telematics solution to help you optimize operations for increased productivity and efficiency.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Get Your Assets Under Control in 2019

In this post, we outline how you can set your business up for success through asset tracking to optimize utilization in the coming year...

Business Management

A Look Back at Trucking Fleet Trends

Let's take a look back at the challenges and opportunities that trucking companies have faced and examine how telematics technology can help as 2019 approaches...

Compliance

ELD Short-Haul Exemptions: What You Need to Know

In this post, we’ll dive into what qualifies for a short-haul ELD mandate exemption, and what short-haul fleets should consider in deciding whether to take advantage of the ELD exception, or use ELD...

Business Management

International Tariffs and the Supply Chain Industry

Let’s take a look at what the international tariffs are, what they mean for the commercial trucking industry, what’s on the horizon and how the right technology will be essential in the coming years.

Safety & Security

Leveraging Tech for a Safer Landscaping Fleet

The latest GPS fleet tracking solutions can help today’s landscapers enhance fleet safety and achieve a more productive workforce while streamlining fleet management and, ultimately, improving the bottom...

Business Management

How Private Fleets Benefit From New Tax Law

Employers are rethinking how to best balance their own expenses with the reimbursements lost by their employees since the car tax deductions law change. In some cases, company-provided vehicles look...

Compliance

HOS Violations: No More Excuses

In this post, we’ll dive into what exactly the HOS rule is, how to avoid Department of Transportation (DOT) violations and how the CSA program is changing...

Business Management

Government Fleets Must Prepare for a Digital Future

The right fleet management technology can help government fleets of any size rise to these challenges and also help them prepare for future issues.

Business Management

3 Signs of a Mediocre Fleet

Whether you work in HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, as an electrician or in another service-based field, if you truly want your business to not just survive but thrive, it’s important to take an objective...

Business Management

Smooth Implementation Part 2: Make It Pain-Free

These five steps will help you manage a smooth transition into a system that affects everyone in your business, including your customers, and increases your speed to ROI and improved outcomes.

Business Management

Evergreen Future of Mobile Workforce Management

GPS fleet tracking solutions have grown to be an integral mobile tool and distinct competitive advantage for managers of fleets of all sizes. For businesses providing field services, costs are rising...

Safety & Security

What Top-of-the-Line Fleet Safety Looks Like

Take a look at what top fleets are doing in this highly competitive space to implement the latest technologies to enforce safe driving behavior, increase compliance, attract new clients and get the...

Business Management

How to Drive New Growth with Your Existing Fleet

Before you invest money in additional equipment or staffing, it’s imperative you explore ways to first improve business efficiency without unnecessarily overextending yourself or your business. Here...

Business Management

9 Mistakes to Avoid in Telematics Implementation

Understanding and mapping out how your team is going to use this new technology, researching options on the market, making a purchase decision and then actually implementing this new telematics program...

Compliance

Develop Your 2019 AOBRD Strategy

Though the ELD compliance date has come and gone, but what does that mean for AOBRD users? As we approach the new year, now is the time to get an AOBRD strategy in place...

Business Management

Fleet Connections Report: The Data-Driven Fleet

In the new edition of Fleet Connections, our analysis of report utilization by 720 fleets comprising 27,347 vehicles in the United States shows that companies that properly utilize reporting can achieve...

Business Management

3 Routes to Fleet Manager Failure

Though the core duties of a fleet manager range from vehicle maintenance and driver safety to overall organizational compliance, with so much riding on one employee's shoulders it's important to avoid...

Business Management

Signs You’re Ready to Implement Telematics

GPS fleet tracking can provide the data-based insight into your operations that helps you make educated business decisions as you reach for and manage growth to make the most of new business and even...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Achieve More: Invest in Asset Tracking Technology

The ability to track asset-specific metrics is crucial to productivity, efficiency and cost control. An integrated asset tracking solution using a GPS tracking device can offer a great depth of data...

Business Management

Smooth Implementation Part 1: The Right Solution

A smooth implementation is key to seeing that ROI quickly. Here are five things you want to do before signing that contract with GPS fleet tracking provider to ensure you’ve found the solution that...

Safety & Security

Post-ELD: Speed Bumps Mixed with Smooth Passage

The ELD mandate has impacted both productivity and costs since going into full effect. Fleet owners are beginning to recognize the benefits of ELDs and the many features they can take advantage of...

Business Management

Landscapers: Weather the Risks of Snow Removal Season...

As landscaping organizations prep for the winter season, they face business model changes, rising insurance premiums and operational risks not present during the summer lawn maintenance months.

Business Management

Leading the Way in Fleet Management

Berg Insight names Verizon Connect as the clear leader in the fleet telematics space both from a global perspective and in the Americas specifically, and as setting the pace in delivering leading mobile...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

3 Signs That Your Vehicle Needs a Sick Day

Staying on top of vehicle care can be hard if you don’t know how to recognize the signs of a problem. Here are 3 ways to tell if a vehicle needs a sick day.

Business Management

Technology Innovation Driving Fleet Modernization

businesses that use data in an actionable way will be the survivors and those who ignore industry progress through technological integration will slowly fall behind and ultimately disappear...

Safety & Security

Why Safety Will Never Be Fully Automated

Contrary to the belief that driver assist technologies will make human attention unnecessary, it’s imperative every driver, professional or non, understand the limitations of these systems to truly...

Business Management

[Webinar] Recap: Orchestrating the Supply Chain

Transport Topics hosted a webinar led by Senior Features Writer Daniel Bearth and Associate News Editor Dan Ronan, with a candid conversation focused on how top private shippers are tackling capacity...

Business Management

Save Time and Money with Automated IFTA Reporting

Let’s take a look at the mounting obstacles IFTA reporting presents to any size fleet operation and see how businesses can use the fuel card integration extension.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Building the Case for Construction Asset Tracking

Construction companies, equipment leasing firms and equipment manufacturers can also benefit from installing GPS devices on non-powered and powered assets, which can range from tools to generators to...

Business Management

Landscaping Contractors’ Greatest Challenges

Landscaping contractors face many challenges but I believe the three major ones are, recruiting quality employees, retaining those employees and maximizing productivity. Register for our free webinar...

Business Management

How Technology Transforms Supply Chain Trucking

Fleet management software is playing a critical role in the key goals of streamlining operations and optimizing productivity in the supply chain industry. From dispatcher to field employee, technology...

Safety & Security

[Webinar] Maximize Fleet Safety, Compliance Tech

Developing and maintaining a first-rate safety program is critical for any transportation company...

Safety & Security

The “State” of Driving Safety for Commercial Vehicles...

What makes one state safer to drive in vs. another? Verizon Connect analyzed every state in the union and found the top 10 safest and most dangerous states and the top 10 safest and most dangerous drivers...

Business Management

Moving From Reactive to Proactive with IoT

Technology continues to break down geographic barriers, making it easier for businesses of all sizes to participate in the global marketplace.

Business Management

Autonomy, Electric Vehicles and the Sharing Economy...

In the coming years, 5G technology will become essential to the advancement of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) connectivity.

Business Management

Government Fleet Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Government fleets face many of the same challenges and concerns other fleets encounter; and conversely, government fleets can benefit in the same way as other fleets from the use of the right GPS and...

Business Management

Why It's Critical to Stay on Top of Fleet Technology...

Small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as enterprise-level fleets, must look toward the future if they want to be prepared to keep up with increasing consumer demands...

Business Management

What 5G Can Do for Your Mobile Business

Enhanced 5G connectivity is going to be a major factor in the ongoing benefits that businesses can see from data – including improved speed and greater productivity.

Compliance

How to Get Ready for Roadcheck 2018

Verizon Connect offers free webinar, checklist to help drivers and fleet managers prepare

Business Management

Navigating the Hyperconnected Vehicle of the Future

Digital technology has been reshaping the business landscape for decades, creating new business models, improving productivity, and revolutionizing the way companies interact with their customers, workers...

Business Management

Trucking Woes to Gains: Capacity & Driver Shortage

Providing drivers with the very best navigation and e-log tools is critical to making their lives less stressful and a primary reason many businesses implement a GPS tracking solution.

Business Management

5 Things High-Profit Landscapers Always Do

Over the past 30 years, we at the Harvest Group have learned a lot about how to grow profits in landscaping. One of the clearest things we’ve learned is that profitability has little to do with size.

Business Management

Reducing Risk Can Increase Your Returns

If you’re in the construction industry you know that risk comes with the territory. Even if you have the best insurance coverage on the market, it’s only one small piece of the puzzle when it comes...

Business Management

TSI: Is Doing Good Good for the Bottom Line?

Telematics software offers two key ways—safety and compliance—oil and gas businesses in particular can demonstrate a positive impact.

Business Management

Florist, Nursery, Landscape: Prep for Peak Season

Peak season for florist, nursery, and landscape companies is approaching and with heightened competition, local businesses must find the right tools like GPS tracking to ensure that operations run as...

Business Management

Transport Companies Differentiate with Technology

Luxury coach and transport businesses can see enhanced efficiency, customer satisfaction and driver safety with GPS tracking technology.

Business Management

Ask the Expert: Service and Support

Verizon Connect discusses service and support to help customers maximize ROI on fleet or field service management.

Business Management

What You Should Know About Rising Fuel Prices

Gas prices are already on the rise across the country in the first few weeks of 2018, and it's unknown how high they'll reach. For carriers and small shipping companies, any increase in fuel prices...

Compliance

Tales from the Road: Productivity...

In this edition of our Tales From The Road series, learn how Work can help to increase fleet productivity. With our scheduling and dispatching software jobs can be done quicker and more efficiently...

Business Management

New England vs. Philadelphia: Winners on the Road

Just in time for the Big Game this Sunday, our infographic compares these two cities side by side to determine who takes the lead on the road and on the field.

Compliance

ELD Compliance: Where We Are and What’s to Come

Now that the mandate has been official for a month or so, let’s take stock of where things stand and where ELD compliance is heading.

Safety & Security

Data Privacy Day: Focus for Fleet Managers

In a world where we’re more connected than ever in our private as well as professional lives, phrases like “Big Data” and “data privacy” are now part of everyday conversation. But when it comes to...

Compliance

Tales from the Road: Cost Savings

In this edition of our Tales From The Road series, learn how LogBook can provide cost savings. The ELD mandate now in effect, and driver logs are required to be recorded and maintained electronically...

Compliance

Tales from the Road: Revenue

In this edition of our Tales From The Road series, learn how LogBook can help increase revenue. With our software you are able plan more efficiently and let your drivers get more done. Our simple reporting...

Compliance

Tales from the Road: Driving Time Remaining

Much of the industry has been in an uproar ever since the adoption of the Final Rule back in late 2015 that the implementation of electronic logs would mean an inevitable decrease in productivity. But...

Compliance

Life After the ELD Mandate

If you’re still hoping the ELD mandate will be delayed or overturned, then American Trucking Association (ATA) President and CEO Chris Spear says you’ve got to face the reality: The ELD mandate is here...

Business Management

Landscapers Tackle Their Challenges on the Turnaround...

During the recent National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) LANDSCAPES 2017 conference and GIE+EXPO, attendees were treated to a look into the past year during which the three winners of...

Compliance

Winning with ELD: Going Beyond Compliance

If the attendance at our recent ELD-focused webinars is any indication, many of you are still in investigation phase of finding the right ELD solution for your business and finding that it can be quite...

Safety & Security

National School Bus Safety Week

Last week was annual National School Bus Safety Week, meaning the safety of students traveling to and from school was top of mind for school districts and school bus transportation providers. According...

Compliance

Winning with ELD: Customers Cut Costs with LogBook

The phrase “pinching pennies” can sometimes have a negative connotation. Some may read it and immediately think of “cheap” or “frugal.” But despite those negative undertones and no matter the person...

Compliance

Winning with ELD: Driving revenue with Logbook

Cash. Pocket change. Benjamins. Moola. Bacon. Paper. No matter what you call it, it still means one thing—money. And without money, businesses in any industry have a very short shelf-life. When it comes...

Compliance

Winning with ELD: Improving Your Productivity

Does this sound familiar? It’s 8am at ABC Trucking Company, and there’s already a flurry of activity going on. Drivers are milling around waiting for the day’s delivery schedules. Dispatchers are talking...

Compliance

Winning with ELD: Improving Safety and Compliance

Imagine this scenario. One of your veteran drivers is driving cross-country, hauling some rather fragile freight. Knowing the customer and job are high priority, he’s doing all he can to deliver the...

Business Management

5 Ways Companies with Truck Fleets will Use Drones

The rise of drones, both in the air and on the ground, promises to reinvent freight logistics across the U.S. – and eventually the world. We're already witnessing the early effects that drones are having...

Business Management

Drone Fleet Management Increases Efficiency

For companies that operate fleets of trucks, small gains in efficiency translate to huge savings when scaled across an entire operation. If you're a logistics manager looking to prepare your firm for...

Safety & Security

Thousands Found in Violation During CVSA Roadcheck

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) just released the results of its 2017 Roadcheck inspection. Learn the consequences of a poorly maintained vehicle.

Compliance

Countdown to ELD with a Trucking Expert

We chat with the Heavy Duty Trucking Experts prior to our August 29 webinar “Countdown to ELD: Get Your Burning Questions Answered.”

Compliance

Countdown to ELD with a Compliance Expert

The countdown to ELD is definitely on, and the chances are that you have a lot of questions about what the ELD mandate means for your fleet and what your options for compliance really are.

Compliance

[Webinar] 4 Myths and Bundled ELD Solutions

In this webinar, learn about 4 ELD Myths and everything you need to know, fact and fiction, about the mandate and how our bundled solutions and how we can help you meet compliance.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Avoid the Trickle-Down Effect: A Broken-Down Fleet

Do you know the impact on your fleet of having just one broken down fleet vehicle? Learn how a GPS tracking solution can help you stay on top of vehicle maintenance.

Business Management

Eliminate Paperwork to Get More Done

Using field service software eliminates paperwork tasks that suck up so much of the workday, giving you time back in your day for the important stuff...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Effects of Harsh Driving and Missed Maintenance

Read how harsh driving costs your business & how GPS fleet tracking helps you monitor driver behavior and fleet maintenance needs, saving your bottom line...

Business Management

How Data Can Help You Tell the Full Fleet Story

Fleet tracking technology constantly collects information on vehicle and drivers, if it has to do with a trip, a truck or a driver, you get that fleet data.

Team Management

Track Driving Behavior Without Riding Shotgun

Are your drivers engaging in risky driving behavior? Learn how to track your business fleet’s driving behavior with GPS vehicle tracking.

Business Management

Do More with the Fleet You Have Now

Wish you had more vehicle or more time? Make the most of your assets and learn how GPS vehicle tracking can help you get more done in a day.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Are You Doing All You Can for Fleet Maintenance?

Are you doing all you can to keep up with fleet vehicle maintenance? Learn how keeping current on maintenance can help costs, productivity & reduce risks...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Rescue 911: Create a Stolen Asset Plan

Explore fundamental concepts of loss control. This essential article will teach you the sound principles to keep your fleet moving.

Team Management

Dispatch Without the “Crazy Wall” of Sticky Notes

A GPS vehicle tracking solution can help you eliminate job dispatch whiteboards. Our field service management software keeps all your job information on a digital dashboard.

Safety & Security

The Effects of Harsh Driving on Fuel and Vehicles

Learn the effects of harsh driving on fuel and vehicles. And, how GPS vehicle tracking can help by monitoring driving styles to point out reckless behavior.

Business Management

Scheduling Snafus: Avoiding the Domino Effect

GPS vehicle tracking eliminates scheduling and dispatch problems, such as helping you understand how long each jobs take so dispatching trucks is easier...

Team Management

Driver Coaching 101: Tips and Tricks

Safety coaching is key for those supervising fleet drivers. Here are the best tips to coach your fleet drivers and protect them and the safety other drivers.

Business Management

Don’t Be Fuelish: Manage the Impact of Fuel Costs

There are a lot of ways your drivers can waste fuel. Read this to learn the many ways that gps vehicle tracking can help save company fuel.

Business Management

Busting the Myths About GPS Fleet Tracking

GPS Fleet Tracking Myths that can impede a company’s progress and success. Too many myths have grown up around it, and we are here to officially bust them.

Business Management

Ease Payroll Pains: Overtime and Timesheet Fraud

Curious how to catch overtime payroll fraud? Do you have a way to track and manage OT, and ensure timesheets are right and OT numbers aren’t being fudged?

Business Management

Hidden Ways Your Business Is Losing Money

For business owners, saving money isn’t only trendy when the economy is down. Check out a few tops tips for fleets on the hidden ways you’re losing money.

Business Management

Billing and Invoicing Made Easier and Faster

It’s tough to ensure everyone and everything gets paid on time, from employees to utilities to rent? Here are the best ways to manage billing and invoices.

Safety & Security

Safety in the Age of the “Connected Truck”

Connected vehicles use different communication technologies to make driving safer and more efficient. Read how telematics helps you have safer fleets.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

The Top 4 Reasons for Roadside Breakdowns

No one likes being stuck on the side of the road. If you're a driver with a tight schedule, waiting for roadside assistance is something you can't...

Business Management

A Look Into the Future of Fleet Management

Do you want to know what is the future of fleet management? Here are three trends you might see in fleet management in both the near and far future.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Fleet Monitoring: A Better Management System

Fleet monitoring, where managers can use data received from GPS trackers to get real-time reports on drivers, is proving a popular option for mobil...

Business Management

Workforce Management for the Digital Age

Erase that whiteboard and learn more about how the Work platform can help your business run smoother. See how we can Make Scheduling and Dispatching easier.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

You Should Be Using Geofences

There is likely some waste in your fleet. A GPS vehicle tracking solution can help you find it. Use our customizable geofences to create virtual boundaries around buil...

Compliance

Will ELD Laws Come to Canada?

It took a while going through the approval process in America, but it appears Canadian truckers may be need to adopt ELD regulations relatively soo...

Business Management

Fleet Management Tools Help You Reduce Fuel Costs

Fuel is a big part of every fleet budget. It accounted for nearly 40 percent of fleet ownership expenses in 2013, according to The Washington Post....

Business Management

What Is a Connected Vehicle?

As the IoT revolution gains momentum, one phrase you’re likely to hear more often is ‘connected vehicle’.What is a connected vehicle, how does it w...

Business Management

Lowering Engine Idle Time Can Help Reduce Fleet...

Are your drivers trying to beat the summer heat by sitting in idling trucks with the air conditioning blasting? Employee satisfaction is key to ret...

Business Management

Introducing New Technology Into Your Business

Check out some tips on how to comfortably transition employees into new fleet technology. You can help make workplace technology less intimidating.

Business Management

Eliminate Process Gaps to Cut Operational Costs

Increase savings and efficiency for your business with these cost cutting ideas. Learn more about how to cut operational costs.

Business Management

Take the Pain Out of Payroll

Streamline administrative payroll with the Work platform. It integrates with accounting software, tracks timesheets, processes payments and more.

Business Management

Maintaining Fuel Efficiency When Fuel Prices Surge

Check out these summer fuel economy tips that will help your drivers optimize fuel efficiency and keep your gas bill down when temps go up.

Business Management

How GPS Truck Tracking Benefits Business

From reducing costs to improving productivity and driver safety, here's how to win with GPS truck tracking

Team Management

Get Your Employees Onboard with New Technology

Implementing new technologies can be challenging, but you can get your employees on board. Learn how to make this transition easy for small businesses.

Business Management

Focus on Cost Savings: Dollars and Sense

Learn how to uncover and deliver cost savings. Have actionable data at your fingertips to help make smarter decisions for your business.

Business Management

Accurate, Efficient, Simplified Timecard Reporting

Discover the benefits of employee time reporting systems with tips. Increase data accuracy and revenue while decreasing labor costs.

Business Management

5 Steps to Introducing New Business Processes

Learn how to implement new changes in the workplace with tips from Verizon Connect. Workplace changes are never easy, but these tips help it go smoothly.

Business Management

7 Metrics to Help You Measure Success and ROI

Measure your business success with 7 success metrics. Discover tangible and intangible mechanisms that help your business thrive.

Safety & Security

Changing Your Safety Culture, Driver by Driver

Promoting driver safety and good driving habits is your responsibility as a fleet owner. Follow our advice about how to instill safe driving habits.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

5 Tips for Effective Fleet Maintenance Planning

Developing and implementing an effective fleet maintenance plan can be easy. When developing your fleet’s maintenance plan, ask yourself these five questions.

Business Management

The Cost of Even a Few Minutes of Idling Adds Up

Needlessly running the engine adds up over time, especially if you have several vehicles on the road. Learn how to manage idle time with a GPS fleet tracking solution.

Safety & Security

10 Ways to Keep Your Drivers Alert

We've all been there, driving while hungry, tired and unfocused. Here are a few tips on how to stay focused on the road ahead...

Business Management

Finding Your Career Path in Fleet Management

Those considering a career in fleet management may have a number of questions before dipping their toes into the industry. This is understandable b...

Business Management

Optimize Operations with Workforce Management

Employees are our biggest expenditure, why not ensure they are operating at the most efficient level possible? One benefit of a workforce management solution.

Business Management

How to Take Advantage of Telematics for Your Fleet

Telematics might be one of those industry buzzwords that many people use, but few know what it means. Telematics is actually the convergence of tel...

Compliance

5 Tips to Help Drivers Transition to Electronic...

With the publishing of the final rule in December 2015, drivers who record their Hours of Service (HOS)* will need to find and implement an Electro...

Business Management

Is Fleet Management Scalable for Small Fleets?

Most small business owners think of a GPS vehicle tracking solution as a great tool for the “big guys”. Here are a few tips on business concerns that keep you up at night.

Compliance

Are There Exceptions to the ELD Rule?

The ELD mandate affects millions of commercial drivers. If you are currently required to complete a RODS or HOS logbook, then it's likely the chang...

Compliance

What the ELD Rule Means for Your CMV Trucking

The ELD (Electronic Logging Device) mandate is now compulsory and it’s important to take a few minutes to review your fleet’s current situation and...

Compliance

The ELD Final Rule Has Finally Arrived

It's been a long time coming but the ELD Final Rule has officially been released by the FMCSA. In a press release dated December 10, 2015, the FMCS...

Business Management

Monitoring More Than Just Vehicles with GPS Asset...

GPS tracking is an indispensable fleet management solution that can help to boost efficiency and improve fleet safety. However, the resources of yo...

Compliance

ELDs for Beginners

First of all, let's cover some basic facts about ELDs. What is an ELD? ELD stands for Electronic Logging Device. The acronym is the current des...

Compliance

What Sort of Training Will My Drivers Need to Use...

Drivers will need guidance on how the ELDs work, what it means for them and the benefits of paperless logging. In some cases, you may need to discu...

Compliance

Will Our ELDs Be Compliant in Canada?

Canada is also moving toward compulsory ELDs to minimize fatigue-related accidents.While the details are still being finalized, it is likely there ...

Compliance

KPIs to Measure ELD Success

While ELDs are primarily aimed at helping your drivers comply with hours of service requirements, it’s a perfect opportunity to start measuring a f...

Compliance

Are ELDs Expensive? Do I Have to Pay Upfront?

ELDs are not only cost-effective but their benefits often result in a positive return on investment within just a few short months.Telogis has part...

Compliance

Does the ELD Mandate Affect DVIRs?

No, there is no change to DVIRs with the introduction of ELDs.However, fleets that have switched to an electronic system for ELDs are also finding ...

Safety & Security

Why Are Metrics So Important to Your Fleet Safety...

Measuring fleet safety can seem more art than science. How do you know your fleet is safe? Is it merely the absence of accidents? Is it just a gut...

Business Management

Improve Fleet Efficiency on a Government Budget

Managing a fleet of cars, trucks, or buses presents a unique set of challenges. Fuel costs, routing, maintenance, driver safety, and vehicle usage...

Business Management

Improved Fleet Management With Telematics Reports

Fleet managers have a lot on their plate and, as a result, often lack the time and resources necessary to monitor their vehicles and drivers on a c...

Compliance

Are You Still Using Paper Forms for DVIRs?

It’s human nature - when we’ve been doing something the same way, day after day, year after year, it becomes a blind spot. We don’t stop to think a...

Business Management

2015 Fleet and Vehicle Management Survey Findings

More than 1,100 business owners, fleet operators, and general managers participated in a recent survey about their biggest fleet management challen...

Safety & Security

Does Gamification Help Improve Driver Behavior?

Forbes recently predicted that in 2015, 40 percent of Global 1000 organizations will use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

The Right Fleet Management Fit for Your Fleet

No matter the size of your company and the number of vehicles in its fleet, your fleet operation can benefit from using innovative G...

Business Management

Geofencing: Reduce Cost and Simplify Fleet Service

Learn these Key Details About How Geofencing Can Streamline Productivity & Reduce Costs. Not Sure What a GPS Geofence is, Click to Learn More!...

Team Management

5 Ways to Make Your Drivers Comfortable With GPS...

The benefits of GPS-based fleet management are clear. But have you thought about how your drivers are going to react when GPS tracking is installed...

Business Management

Making GPS Work Underground: The Ford Story

Near Kansas City in Missouri lies SubTropolis, an underground business complex (potentially the largest in the world) covering more than 55 million...

Business Management

Enterprise Fleet Management Solutions

The larger your company, the more important it is to track the location of your vehicles and equipment. Through GPS tracking and wireless technology...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

The Benefits of Asset Tracking

The vehicles you use to transfer goods and services aren'۪t the only assets that can take advantage of GPS-based solutions...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

5 Benefits of Built-In Fleet Tracking Intelligence

Keeping a fleet of vehicles well maintained and fully operational is no easy task. Fleet services supervisors walk a tightrope of thoroughly mainta...

Business Management

What Do Fleet Managers Do?

Learn what fleet managers do and how tools like GPS fleet monitoring software help them cut costs, increase productivity and improve safety.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

3 Ways to Make Your Trucks Targets for Inspection

Managing your CSA profile is an essential element of an effective and proactive safety program. Since the data that goes into your profile and indi...

Safety & Security

5 Elements of an Effective Fleet Safety Program

Our guest blogger Brad Penneau brings nearly 30 years of motor carrier safety, compliance, risk management and operations experience. Brad has writ...

Business Management

Reduce Your Fleet Maintenance Costs

Vehicle repair and upkeep can have a huge effect on a fleet's bottom line. By providing extensive engine diagnostics, GPS tracking solutions allow ...

Business Management

The Evolution of Fleet Managers

It'۪s becoming increasingly common to see tasks traditionally performed by humans now done by technology or computers. Many fear that some jobs wil...

Business Management

Optimizing Fleet Size and Utilization

Today'۪s managers constantly strive to cut costs and operate more efficiently. This is especially true for public agency fleets that must comply wi...

Business Management

Top 8 Challenges Enterprise Fleet Managers Face

Large enterprise companies that cover a vast area, own thousands of vehicles, and are responsible for a huge number of drivers across several state...

Business Management

How Does GPS Tracking Report on Speeding?

As part of our basics of telematics series we’re looking at the connection between how GPS data is used to track and report on speeding incid...

Business Management

Decoding All Those Telematics Acronyms

Acronyms. Love or hate them, they’re here to stay and there’s every sign that we will see their numbers growing, particularly with the spread of te...

Business Management

Enterprise Fleet Management Dashboard: Tame Big...

As telematics enters the era of big data and the connected Internet of things, fleet managers are staring down the barrel of an information tsunami...

Business Management

6 Advantages of Working with a Single Vendor

Like the universe, the enterprise software marketplace is expanding rapidly. More and more vendors are entering the market, often with a growing ra...

Business Management

How Do Construction Companies Use GPS Tracking?

When we think of GPS, we generally think of portable devices found on the dashboard of a vehicle, guiding the driver with turn-by-turn directions.B...

Business Management

How Much Fuel Are You Losing to Thieves?

There’s no question that fuel is a big expense for every fleet. On average it accounts for around 30% of total expenses, with many sizable fl...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Tracking and Monitoring Unpowered Assets

When it comes to tracking company asset like fleet vehicles, GPS devices are often wired to draw from the vehicle’s power supply. But some as...

Business Management

GPS vs. Telematics: How Do They Compare?

You are probably familiar with the average GPS device; maybe it’s a Garmin, a Navman or even a smartphone running something like Google Maps. You h...

Business Management

Why Monitor Harsh Braking and Acceleration?

Should you be monitoring hard braking and acceleration as part of your fleet’s safety program? What actions does your safety manager take whe...

Business Management

What Is Telematics?

The word “telematics” stems from the combination of telecommunications and informatics, and it was the joining of these two sciences th...

Business Management

Top Ten Ways Fleet Drivers Can Use Less Fuel

With fuel costs accounting for about 30% of your fleet’s total operating costs, it makes good business sense to minimize your gas bills as mu...

Business Management

What Do School Bus GPS Systems Track?

School buses are under pressure to not only provide a safe, reliable service to school children and their parents, but also to run efficiently and ...

Business Management

4 Ways Customer Feedback Can Improve Your Business

See four ways you can use customer feedback to improve your business. Verizon Connect offers several tips to help your business measure customer satisfaction.

Business Management

5 Best Truck Stops in America

See our lists of the 5 Best Truck Stops in America and why. Valuable information for truckers and road trippers. See which provide the essentials and more!

Safety & Security

3 Incentives to Drive Improved Driver Performance

With the Verizon Connect solution, a manager can easily identify which fleet driver has the greatest or least amount of idling hours and speeding violations.

Business Management

5 Ways to Reduce Fleet Fuel Theft

While you may trust your employees, have you effectively removed the temptation to commit a ‘crime of opportunity’? Is your fleet at ri...

Business Management

Common Costly Mistakes in Fleet Planning

Fleet planning, like a lot of business planning, can be a hit OR miss affair. It’s not always an exact science. But there is a big mistake th...

Business Management

Manage All Your Mobile Assets on One Dashboard

How many of your mobile assets are you managing using location-based software? None, a few, or the whole fleet? One thing is certain: it is becomin...

Business Management

Do You Know the True Cost of Fleet Accidents?

Worker safety is of paramount importance to employers, employees and government authorities. When you consider that 5,071 workers died on the job ...

Safety & Security

Driver Scorecards Improve Safety and Reduce Operational...

If you collected baseball cards as a kid (or maybe still do), the most distinctive attribute of that baseball card after the picture on the front i...

Safety & Security

Driving: One of the Most Dangerous Oilfield Jobs

You might think there are jobs on an oil or gas field that are a lot more dangerous than driving.These guys are working with menacing equipment, ha...

Business Management

Telematics Solutions for New Fleet Vehicles

In the past getting telematics for your fleet was often a complicated process. Aftermarket hardware installations, rewiring vehicles, downtime, reg...

Business Management

Making Your Fleet Solution Fit: API Integration

When you buy software off the shelf, it doesn't always fit your organization's IT infrastructure exactly. You may need it to integrate, or at least...

Business Management

How Telematics Can Improve Your Construction Business

Construction can be a tough industry to succeed in — tight project deadlines, demanding work conditions and challenging building projects can put s...

Team Management

Do You Know How Good Your Drivers Really Are?

Do you know how good your drivers really are? Here are ten performance indicators you should watch!We all know there are challenges with managing m...

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