Resources tagged cost control

Are you ready for International Roadcheck 2019?
Are you ready for International Roadcheck 2019?

International Roadcheck 2019 starts June 4, focusing on steering and suspension systems. Download our free checklist to help avoid faile...

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Fleet Management Buyer's Guide
Fleet Management Buyer's Guide

Find out how GPS fleet tracking works and how to find the right solution for your business with our Buyer's Guide.

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How Smart Video Fuels Smart Business
How Smart Video Fuels Smart Business

Learn how video solutions with intelligent analysis capabilities can help benefit your drivers and enhance safety programs.

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How Smart Video Fuels Smart Business
How Smart Video Fuels Smart Business

Learn how video solutions with intelligent analysis capabilities can help benefit your drivers and enhance safety programs.

How Smart Video Fuels Smart Business

Learn how video solutions with intelligent analysis capabilities can help benefit your drivers and enhance safety programs.

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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...

Safety & security

More Than Just Dots on a Map

This eBook guides you through four key reasons to use asset tracking, new technology and different hardware options .

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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 wit...

Business 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 e...

Vehicle & equipment management

7 Secrets to a Safer Fleet

Seven smart ways to help improve peace of mind and reduce time spent managing driver safety.

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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 ...

Safety & security

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 customer...

Business management

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 a...

Safety & security

Field Service Management Buyer’s Guide

Software can be complex, but the buying process doesn’t have to be. Get our checklists, tips and steps to researching and purchasing the ...

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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, ...

Business management

2019 Guide to Asset & Fleet Tracking: Construction

Technology can help improve business outcomes and mitigate challenges in construction by addressing the needs of your fleet, drivers and ...

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2019 Buyer's Guide: Asset Tracking Solutions

Tracking assets isn’t just knowing where they are located—it’s also critical to have metrics on productivity and efficiency to help contr...

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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 u...

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...

Compliance

GCI Slingers Grows Efficiency with Fleet Metrics

GCI Slingers and Gravel Conveyors has seen significant improvements in every area they addressed with Verizon Connect, including PTO trac...

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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 busines...

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 rea...

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 T...

Business management

2018 Fleet Tracking Trends Report

Are you tracking? This informative analysis looks at how companies of all sizes navigate GPS tech solutions—and the positive contribution...

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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 for...

Business management

City of San Jose Closer to Becoming a Smart City

The City of San Jose needed a software platform to improve dispatching, allow officers to easily find an available car and track needed s...

Case study Business management

7 Ways Telematics Is Ideal for Oil & Gas Fleets

Today's comprehensive telematics solutions are well equipped to meet oil and gas fleets' unique needs. Our eBook highlights seven key way...

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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 sustainabil...

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...

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 a...

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

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 pr...

Business 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.

Vehicle & equipment 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 h...

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 h...

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 deducti...

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 futu...

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 ...

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 si...

Business management

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 be...

Safety & security

How Government Fleets use Telematics to Help Reduce Costs

Lowering operational costs and improving efficiency are two top priorities of government fleets.

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6 Ways to a Safer Fleet

Every fleet wants to be safer, but what does that mean for your daily habits? How do you implement changes with drivers to encourage bett...

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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 withou...

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 dec...

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...

Business management

Fleet Connections 2018: The Data-Driven Fleet

How does your company compare to others when it comes to its use of fleet technology? How might your company take advantage of fleet data...

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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 ...

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 f...

Business 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 solutio...

Vehicle & equipment management

5 Steps to a Better ROI on Fleet Assets

Fleet vehicles and high-value equipment are a big investment and a significant day-to-day cost for your organization. Make sure you’re ru...

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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 fle...

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 risk...

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 s...

Business 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 vehicl...

Vehicle & equipment 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 integrat...

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 convers...

Business management

5 Signs You're Ready for Telematics

You’ve looked into GPS fleet tracking, and you’re on the fence for one reason or another. You’re not sure your business is large enough t...

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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 c...

Business 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 a...

Vehicle & equipment management

Landscaping Contractors’ Greatest Challenges

Landscaping contractors face many challenges but I believe the three major ones are, recruiting quality employees, retaining those employ...

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 suppl...

Business management

Five Ways to Reduce Fuel Costs

With fluctuating fuel prices, the need for businesses to stay competitive while keeping operating costs down remains a high priority. Hav...

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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 ...

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 carri...

Business management

Bill Howe Plumbing Reduces Annual Accidents by 87%

Bill Howe Companies (plumbing, HVAC and flooding and restoration services) improved safety scores and productivity with GPS fleet trackin...

Case study Safety & security

What Is Telematics?

Telematics is the technology of sending, receiving and storing information related to remote objects, such as vehicles, via telecommunica...

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Reignite Your Cash Flow

You’re likely no stranger to the phrase “cash is king” and while that phrase will remain true for centuries to come, collecting money isn...

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BYOD: Friend or Foe?

Technicians without the right technology readily available in the field can cause more challenges than you’re prepared to deal with. Equ...

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6 Benefits of GPS Fleet Tracking for Professional Contractors

Learn what unique benefits professional contractors can experience with GPS tracking to take your business forward and ahead of the compe...

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5 Ways to Optimize Your Fleet

These 5 tips can help you optimize your fleet to maximize revenue growth and reduce operational expenses, putting and keeping more money ...

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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...

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9 Secrets to Reducing Operating Expenses

Hidden and preventable expenses may be hurting your bottom line. We can help you reduce costs of operating your business with these 9 sec...

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How we helped a feed supplier improve productivity

Download this case study to learn how Witmer Feed improved productivity with gps fleet management software from Verizon Connect, see how ...

Case study Business management

Subcontractor reduces monthly fuel, maintenance costs

United Subcontractors uses GPS tracking solution with their existing platforms and is more efficient with resources, improved operations ...

Case study Business management

Logistics company focuses on safety and compliance

Using a combination of Verizon Connect's Reveal and LogBook solutions helped them monitor driver safety, productivity and fleet compliance.

Case study Compliance

Tree-care company cuts fuel costs by $2,000 a month with GPS fleet ...

GPS Fleet Management helps Tree Tech Inc. with fuel costs.

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Steve Hilker Trucking experiences superior customer service, easy a...

Steve Hilker Trucking, a livestock delivery company, installed Verizon Connect GPS tracking and improved customer service and reporting c...

Case study Team management

Rohrer's one hour HVAC gains control and reduces insurance costs us...

Rohrer’s One Hour HVAC installed GPS tracking to help insurance rates. Now they have saved on rates, improved driver behavior and payroll...

Case study Business management

Robbins Towing keeps better track of their trucks with GPS fleet tr...

Robbins Towing implemented GPS vehicle tracking after having a call about an employee's odd location. With Verizon Connect, they keep bet...

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Midwest-based trucking company stays compliant and productive with ...

Midwest-based trucking company, R&M trucking, has improved their safety scores with Verizon Connect Logbook. Verizon Connect helps them s...

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Plote Construction uses Verizon Connect to win court case and impro...

Plote Construction realized that the business could boost its bottom line by installing a reliable vehicle tracking system.

Case study Business management

Verizon Connect helps Paul Davis Restoration cut wasteful spending

After installing GPS fleet tracking software, Paul Davis Restoration experienced many benefits including payroll savings and insurance pr...

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Papalia Plumbing and Heating renews their contract with Verizon Con...

To maintain a high level of customer satisfaction, Papalia Plumbing & Heating implemented the Verizon Connect GPS fleet tracking system. ...

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Medical Equipment Company Upgrades Its Experience

National HME Switches to Verizon Connect for Price, Product Functionality and Customer Service

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Larry's Limousine stays on the road with help from Verizon Connect

Larry’s Limo Helped by GPS Tracking Solution from Verizon Connect and have stayed continually informed of their drivers’ locations. Read ...

Case study Business management

Outdoor Advertising Company Cuts Fuel Costs 15%

Learn How One Outdoor Advertising Fleet Has Used GPS Tracking to Improve Efficiency For Their Transit Advertising Fleet. Get Details and ...

Case study Business management

Kimball Construction credits customer service for effectiveness of ...

Kimball Construction benefits from GPS vehicle tracking with better customer service. Learn how Verizon Connect helped the company reduc...

Case study Business management

J. Carey Logging improves their DOT safety scores with Verizon Connect

J. Carey Logging implement Vehicle Tracking from Verizon Connect, saving in fuel and reducing idling. Read more about their story and le...

Case study Compliance

Fettes, Love & Sieben has streamlined operational procedures and sa...

Increased RevenueFettes, Love & Sieben is a plumbing and heating contractor located in Chicago, Illinois and employs approximately sixty-...

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One Hour Heating uses GPS fleet tracking to serve more customers

Verizon Connect Customer One Hour Heating Uses GPS Tracking and improves use of time and driver behavior. The company saved $750 per wee...

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DiPinto Brothers Transportation slashes payroll costs with GPS flee...

By improving its ability to plan routes, keep track of vehicle activity and better respond to customer demands, DiPinto Brothers has save...

Case study Business management

Deep South Equipment Makes Seamless Switch to Verizon Connect Reveal

Deep South Equipment installed GPS tracking on their industrial equipment fleet and reported an easy switch and enhanced capabilities wit...

Case study Team management

Dallas Plumbing Company Slashes Costs by Switching to Verizon Conne...

Dallas Plumbing uses GPS fleet tracking from Verizon Connect to lower costs, increase efficiency, and grow in the competitive Air Conditi...

Case study Team management

Fleet Tracking Keeps Drivers Safe and Helps Deliver More Packages O...

Delivery truck tracking helps DR Sherry save on fuel & increase the number of deliveries trucks can make per day. GPS has helped their tr...

Case study Business management

Verizon Connect GPS Fleet Tracking Helps Concrete Coring Company Be...

Concrete Coring Company needed a way to reduce costs during the economic recession

Case study Business management

Capital Crane gets support and savings from Verizon Connect Reveal

Capital Crane Saves on equipment costs and experiences ease of use with Verizon Connect.

Case study Vehicle & equipment management

Camping Companies, Inc., Controls Its Mobile Workforce

Camping Companies was looking for a GPS Tracking System to better service its clients and manage employees in the field

Case study Team management

B C S Fence Builds Customer Service Reputation with GPS Fleet Tracking

BCS Fences Improves Customer Service with GPS from Verizon Connect. The company relies on customer referrals to grow business, learn how ...

Case study Team management

ACRT Leaves Previous GPS Provider for Verizon Connect Superior Feat...

ACRT Leaves Previous GPS Provider for More Features, Increased Reliability and Superior Customer Service With Verizon Connect.

Case study Safety & security

How 1-800-GOT-JUNK Boosted On-time Arrivals and Revenue with Verizo...

Using Verizon Connect has helped 1-800-GOT-JUNK outperform their competitors by increasing the accuracy of arrival times improving dispat...

Case study 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....

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. ...

Business management

How Snohomish County is using Verizon Connect to improve officer sa...

Below 100: How Snohomish County is using Verizon Connect to improve officer safety. Law enforcement comes with inherent risks. Officers f...

Case study Business 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 o...

Vehicle & equipment 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 imp...

Business 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...

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, productivit...

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.

Vehicle & equipment management

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...

Safety & security

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

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 are...

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 yo...

Business management

Quick ROI on field service software for Zayo Group

Zayo Group manages more than 350 vehicles in the field with mobile workers spread across the US and Canada. As Zayo Group provides vital ...

Case study 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 bil...

Business 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 ...

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...

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 ...

Vehicle & equipment 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 Washin...

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...

Business management

Lowering Engine Idle Time Can Help Reduce Fleet Costs

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

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 a...

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

DeSilva Gates Construction locates their assets and big savings

In searching for their assets, a construction company uncovers big savings. When you've been in business for more than 80 years you'd thi...

Case study Vehicle & equipment 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 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 ...

Vehicle & equipment 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 ...

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...

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 converge...

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 c...

Business management

"Verizon Connect has really transformed our business"

The Verizon Connect platform has really transformed our business in a number of ways. It has allowed us to start thinking of new ways to ...

Case study Business management

Pepsi optimizes routes with flexible territories

Seasonal fluctuations affect most businesses in the food and beverage industry. Adapting to the ups and downs to minimize wasted time and...

Case study Business management

Monitoring More Than Just Vehicles with GPS Asset Tracking

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

Business management

Why Are Metrics So Important to Your Fleet Safety Program?

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 j...

Safety & security

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 vehi...

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 driv...

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 manageme...

Business 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...

Vehicle & equipment 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 ...

Business management

5 Ways to Make Your Drivers Comfortable With GPS Tracking

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...

Team 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...

Business 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 thoroug...

Vehicle & equipment 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.

Business 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 profil...

Vehicle & equipment management

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. Bra...

Safety & security

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 soluti...

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 som...

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 sev...

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 spee...

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 ...

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 di...

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 ...

Business 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. B...

Vehicle & equipment 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 M...

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 manage...

Business management

What Is Telematics?

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

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 b...

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 effici...

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 f...

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 ...

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 ...

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 o...

Business management

Driver Scorecards Improve Safety and Reduce Operational Costs

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

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 equ...

Safety & security

Telematics Solutions for New Fleet Vehicles

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

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...

Business 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 ...

Team management

Surveying and mapping reduces fuel use while improving safety

Idling and fuel use reduced, safety and crew management improved using powerful fleet management system. The Power of Location: SAM reduc...

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Lampson International tracks heavy equipment with GPS solution

Real-time monitoring helps Lampson International improve crane rental operations. Companies that rent and service heavy equipment have a ...

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