GPS Benefits
American GPS Tracking Can Save Your Company Thousands of Dollars
- Increased Productivity
- Reduced Overtime
- Reduced Private Use
- Increased Security
- Insurance Benefits
- Fuel Costs and Speeding
Increased Productivity
American GPS vehicle tracking system shows you exactly how your fleet operates on a day-to-day basis and exposes many of your employee’s inefficient practices. These inefficient practices could be costing your company a lot of time and money. Some examples include:
- inefficient routing practices
- excessive engine idling
- unnecessary overtime payments
- wasted time on the job
- time wasted searching for jobs
- speeding and wreckless driving
- faster response times
By eliminating these costly inefficiencies you’ll be saving your drivers countless amounts of time, which enables you to pick up more jobs each day and increase your profits.
Reduced Overtime
Stop paying high overtime costs, eliminate false timesheet claims, and cut unnecessary overtime hours out by using AmericanGPS’s vehicle tracking devices. Here at AmericanGPS we understand that employees deserve to be paid for every minute of work- but can you really afford to lose money on overtime costs for inefficient routing, heavy traffic, or driver negligence. AmericanGPS’s real time reports will show you exactly where the problems are and how you can fix them – saving you thousands of dollars.
American GPS allows you to reduce overtime costs by:
- identifying when your vehicles are being used during off-hours and where there going
- monitoring exactly when a vehicle enters and leaves a job site
- accurately records how long your vehicle stopped for lunch, ran personal errands, or ran idly.
- accurately measures how long your drivers took at each job or delivery stop (also helps you to clear up any billing disputes)
- allows you see if any inefficient routes are being used
Reduced Private Use
Are you ever curious if your vehicles are being used for side jobs, personal errands, or just driving around on weekends? With AmericanGPS’s vehicle tracking system you can easily determine how much your vehicle is being used for an employee’s private benefit with our reporting system. You can also see where your vehicle is going and make sure that your employees aren’t giving you’re company a bad name by taking your vehicle to the local bar or driving it around at 1am.
Increased Security
With AmericanGPS’s vehicle tracking system you can protect one of your company’s most valuable assets. At anytime you’ll be able to know exactly where your vehicle is. This assurance will allow you to relax and be at piece of mind knowing your assets are always monitored.
Insurance Benefits
Insurance Companies Offering Anti-Theft Device Discounts*
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States with Mandated Anti-theft Device Discounts**
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* Discount percentages apply to comprehensive coverage and vary by state. Each insurance carrier has its own underwriting guidelines and not all applicants will qualify.
** National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Discount percentages vary by state. Each insurance carrier has its own underwriting guidelines and not all applicants will qualify.
Fuel Costs and Speeding
If fuel costs are taking a huge chunk out of your monthly budget then AmericanGPS vehicle tracking systems are here to help. AmericanGPS’s tracking devices are proven to significantly reduce monthly gas bills for businesses by:
- eliminating routing inefficiencies
- reducing unnecessary engine idling times
- improving driver safety and performance
- monitoring and reducing speeding
According to a recent study conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratories the effects of speeding and idling is extremely important to any company trying to cut down on fuel costs. Here are some of the findings:
Effect on Engine:
Careful analysis of many different trucks indicated the ideal speed for the average truck at 50-55 MPH. As speed increases the amount of horsepower needed multiplies exponentially.
*73% more horsepower to cruise at 60 MPH
*159% more horsepower to cruise at 70 MPH
These differences have an astronomical effect on your fuel costs. Research also showed that each MPH above 50 MPH fuel consumption increased by 1.5%. A truck which averages 8 MPG at 50 MPH, would average 6.8 MPG at 60 MPH!
Research also showed that heat is the number one enemy of tires. At sustained high speeds tire temperatures raise above critical levels causing strength and wear properties to deteriorate at an alarming rate. At speeds of 70 MPH or greater tire wear almost doubles!
Maintenance cost for your vehicles will also increase at an alarming rate as gears, bearings, clutches, suspension, and drive trains all wear out much faster at higher speeds. Increasing speed from 50-60 MPH increases maintenance cost by 38%. Increasing speed to 70 MPH increases maintenance cost by 80%!!
An hour’s worth of idling can use up 1-1.75 gallons of fuel in typical commercial vehicles. But having the ability to measure this idle time alone won’t help you translate it into savings - you need to know where the idling events are occurring. A GPS tracking service should provide you with reports that can identify the location of the idling events along with the time, and help you to analyze the information so you can determine which patterns are wasteful.
As little as 4 miles "off-route" can translate to a gallon of fuel wasted. When evaluating GPS tracking vendors, make sure you will be able to use location-based information to plan and create new routes, as well as analyze historical ones. Detailed vehicle activity reports should be available to show “productive” vs. “unproductive” stops, so that you can identify patterns of excess. At today’s fuel prices, can you afford to be paying for driving not related to work?
The U.S. Department of Energy reports that simple vehicle maintenance can have a major impact on fuel costs over time: keep tires properly inflated and aligned improves gas mileage by 3.3 percent, and replacing clogged air filters by as much as 10 percent. Excessive speeding can lower highway gas mileage by as much as 30 percent. A good vehicle tracking service offers the ability to manage and schedule maintenance as part of a complete fleet management solution.
A deep cut requires more than just a Band-aid. With no sign of the gas price crisis letting up soon, simple vehicle location information is not enough to reduce your fuel costs. You need to be able to analyze the performance of your mobile workforce from every angle to see where you could be more efficient and more productive.
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