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5 ways to optimise your fleet
5 ways to optimise your fleet

When you’re fully aware of what’s happening in your business, you can identify more ways to improve safety, cut costs and boost productiv...

Team management

Put profitability first with GPS fleet tracking for construction
Put profitability first with GPS fleet tracking...

Get the most out of your mobile operation. Find out how to improve productivity, efficiency, safety and profitability with GPS fleet trac...

Ebook Team management

70% of UK drivers admit to breaking the speed limit
70% of UK drivers admit to breaking the speed l...

The majority of drivers on UK roads regularly break the speed limit. That’s the finding of a recent report published by MOT and car servi...

Vehicle & equipment management

70% of UK drivers admit to breaking the speed limit
70% of UK drivers admit to breaking the speed limit

The majority of drivers on UK roads regularly break the speed limit. That’s the finding of a recent report published by MOT and car servi...

70% of UK drivers admit to breaking the speed limit

The majority of drivers on UK roads regularly break the speed limit. That’s the finding of a recent report published by MOT and car servicing firm Fixter.

Vehicle & equipment management

First Mile cuts idling by 70%

Founded in 2004, First Mile was established to make it easy for businesses to recycle and be more sustainable. It helps companies with th...

Case study Vehicle & equipment management

9 Secrets Series: Timing is everything

Your time is precious, especially if you’re running a business. Yet, how much time do you and your team currently waste running the same ...

Team management

9 Secrets Series: Optimising from A to B

When it comes to getting from A to B, are your drivers following the quickest and most efficient route?

Vehicle & equipment management

3 signs of a mediocre fleet

In the present era, fleet managers have access to millions of data points at the touch of a button to track various business metrics over...

Team management

Common Myths Series: All I need is a dot on a map

Many of those who think fleet tracking is too expensive often also believe they are overpaying as they only really require ‘a dot on a map’.

Vehicle & equipment management

9 Secrets Series: Manual processes are both outdated and overpriced

When it comes to your day-to-day operations, do you have manual processes in place which could be automated?

Team management

What does Brexit mean for fleets?

Since the result of the EU referendum on 23rd June 2016, businesses and industry bodies across the UK have attempted to analyse and predi...

Team management

Transform your processes with GPS vehicle tracking

Work smarter from quote to completion with an end-to-end fleet management solution.

Ebook Team management

Common Myths Series: All systems are the same

By far the most common system myth is that all GPS solutions are the same. Fleet managers that have used and been left less than impresse...

Vehicle & equipment management

Less paperwork = higher profits?

As the world’s businesses strive to get ever closer to the utopian vision of a paperless office, there’s an old business mantra that come...

Team management

Why work hard when you can work smart?

When you’re running a busy fleet, it often feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day. With so many important tasks competing for yo...

Team management

Majority of motorists in favour of harsher penalties for speeding

A recent survey commissioned by the head of road safety for England’s Police and Crime Commissioners has revealed that the majority of d...

Safety & security

Plumbing and Heating: Do more this winter with GPS vehicle tracking

Businesses within the plumbing and heating industry face a number of common challenges. Perhaps the most pressing, particularly at this t...

Ebook Team management

Reveal Product Overview Brochure

Verizon Connect Reveal tracks the fleet data that can have a big impact on your business. These are things like where your vehicles are, ...

Ebook Team management

Plumbing and Heating: How to handle a busy winter period

Frozen pipes, emergency call-outs and unsociable hours often conspire to make the winter period particularly busy for those in the plumbi...

Vehicle & equipment management

Get your assets under control in 2019

Businesses often find themselves caught in a never-ending cycle of playing catch up and putting out fires, never having time to assess wh...

Vehicle & equipment management

2019: Set your goals

For many of us, the new year means new goals. Whether it is a personal resolution to lose weight or learn a language, or a business objec...

Team management

How to stay on trend in 2019

January is often a time of reflection on the year gone by and planning for the one ahead. Did you achieve everything you aimed for last y...

Vehicle & equipment management

Do you have a winter driving policy?

With reports suggesting that the UK is set for its coldest winter in almost a decade, now is the time for fleet-reliant businesses to ens...

Team management

What is Telematics?

A combination of the words telecommunications and informatics, it was the joining of these two sciences that resulted in the field of tel...

Vehicle & equipment management

How to handle the holiday season

The holiday season is traditionally a busy time for many fleet-reliant businesses.

Vehicle & equipment management

Minimise driver distraction

It almost goes without saying that driving while distracted is potentially dangerous. Yet despite this, four out five UK motorists admit ...

Team management

How to guide: Fuel

Help prevent fuel waste and reduce your carbon footprint.

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

Four ways GPS fleet tracking can help to prevent accidents

Road accidents can have a huge impact on fleet-reliant businesses. Along with the potential for injury to drivers and other road users, a...

Ebook Safety & security

How drivers benefit from GPS tracking

The business benefits of GPS tracking are a major reason behind its growing popularity. With numerous case studies highlighting the techn...

Team management

Mobile phones and mobile workers

Despite harsher penalties, in the UK, for mobile phone use while driving (an instant £200 fine and six penalty points) many drivers still...

Safety & security

Three things your fleet data could be trying to tell you

Your fleet may be producing vast amounts of valuable data every minute of every day but without the technology to help you fully understa...

Safety & security

How to reduce your fleet expenses

If you are responsible for a fleet of vehicles, you’ll no doubt be aware that day-to-day costs can quickly add up, especially when those ...

Team management

Visualising your fleet data

The modern world runs on data. We create and consume more than ever before. In fact, 90% of all data ever generated was produced in the l...

Team management

Out of hours: to track or not to track?

How can you allow your drivers to use a company vehicle in their own time and only track during the working day?

Team management

Are your drivers taking adequate breaks?

This is a question that should concern every fleet manager. For one, the effects of driving while tired can be significant.

Team management

Why tracking your assets is as important as tracking your fleet

If your company has physical high-value assets, such as cranes, tractors or excavators, then keeping track of them is imperative, not onl...

Vehicle & equipment management

Four lesser known benefits of vehicle tracking

When it comes to summarising the many reasons to implement GPS tracking, it’s only natural that some benefits take precedence over others.

Team management

Are you losing precious time to common tacho mistakes?

The importance of staying on top of fleet tachograph data cannot be understated. Failure to accurately record and store vital information...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

Assessing the real impact of personal use across your fleet

Even when you know personal use is taking place, it can be difficult to ascertain the exact level of use, and in turn what impact that us...

Ebook Team management

Three tips for a safer fleet

A safe working environment is of huge importance to every business. For those that rely on fleets, with drivers on the roads among the ge...

Safety & security

Is your tachograph working for you?

For many fleet businesses, the tachograph is merely a legal requirement – simply another box to tick in the life of the fleet manager.

Vehicle & equipment management

Stay in the know wherever you go

Are you aware of what’s happening with your fleet when you aren't in the office? You’re not alone if you don’t.

Team management

Where are your vehicles outside of working hours?

What your drivers get up to outside of working hours is their business. The whereabouts of your vehicles, however, is very much yours.

Vehicle & equipment management

Fleet Manager Insight Report 2018

In 2018 Verizon Connect conducted a survey of over 200 UK-based fleet managers to find out what takes up their time, what keeps them awak...

Ebook Team management

How to improve poor driving habits

Do you run a fleet of vehicles and often rely on feedback from the public regarding your drivers and their behaviour on the road? More im...

Safety & security

Myth Busting: Fleet Tracking Edition

For most fleet-reliant businesses, tracking technology has usually in the very least been considered at some point. But many fleet manage...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

Are you paying for hours not worked?

Picture this: Your employees are paid to work 7:30 am- 16:00 pm. Dave, however, is starting at 8:00 am and finishing at 15:30 pm every da...

Team management

The Trials and Tribulations of Tackling Time Management

Time management is an important skill for any worker. It becomes even more of a necessity at management level and is an even more pressin...

Ebook Team management

Benefits across the company. Enterprise fleet management solutions.

A comprehensive Mobile Resource Management (MRM) solution can deliver benefits to many departments and roles within a company – not just ...

Ebook Enterprise management

The Five Best Ways to Reduce Fuel Costs

The need for businesses to stay competitive while keeping operating costs down is imperative. Since fuel is considered to be one of the l...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

Telematics for Haulage

Research shows that an increasing number of haulage businesses are now turning to telematics to get on top of these and many other challe...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

Get staff onboard with GPS tracking

Introducing a GPS fleet tracking system to employees is not always a smooth ride.

Ebook Team management

9 Secrets to Reducing your Fleet Expenses

As a fleet owner, your day-to-day costs can quickly add up. What you don’t know is there are further hidden, expensive and needless costs...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

2018 Fleet Management Buyer's Guide

This free fleet management buyer's guide will help get you started finding the right tracking solution for you, including what to look fo...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

Autonomous vehicle reality check

It seems everyone is talking about autonomous vehicles and they have tremendous potential for fleets. But analyst Bob O’Donnell’s article...

Enterprise management

More than half of vehicle fleets are missing out on the benefits of...

A new survey from Shell has highlighted more than half of fleet executives still use manual systems for everyday fleet management tasks s...

Enterprise management

Mulholland enjoy 2.5% efficiency gain and expect £50,000 fuel saving

For fleets, small gains can be applied across all your assets to become significant savings. Read how Mulholland Contracts was able to ...

Enterprise management

New diesel & petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040 in UK

Plans to ban production of diesel and petrol vehicles by 2040 will have wide reaching implications across the British fleets. For organis...

Vehicle & equipment management

Is MRM the secret weapon for fleets to avoid peak holiday roadwork ...

With more than 250 sets of roadworks scheduled across major routes all over the country, is MRM the "secret weapon" for fleets to avoidin...

Enterprise management

The intelligent fleet: bridging the communications gap

Sergio Barata looks at connectivity trends and gazes into the future to help you understand where IoT and connected fleet technology migh...

Enterprise management

A big week in the world of autonomous vehicles

While fully autonomous vehicles are a way off, your business can use the data centric approach that powers them

Vehicle & equipment management