How Vehicle Tracking Helps Businesses Cope With Changing Circumstances

Iain Jones
SubmitYOURArticle.com
March 18, 2011

Iain Jones
http://www.pro-ductclean.com

GPS tracking is a technology has has clearly come of age over the past few years. In fact the technology had been available for businesses to adopt for quite a few years now, and even in the early days was to prove invaluable for some of the early adopters. The adoption of vehicle tracking in particular has accelerated as competition has driven down costs and encouraged suppliers to innovate. Today, it is clear that for organizations that depend on the use of vehicles to deliver their service, vehicle tracking is providing significant benefits.

Setting up a GPS tracking system will include the installation of an electronic tracking unit within a vehicle, or fleet of vehicles along with setting up a software programme to enable authorised users to securely track the vehicle over the mobile network. Vehicle information can be viewed on electronic maps or via specialised software. Moreover, more functional solutions make it simple to deliver valuable information derived from the reported locations, for example the vehicle's speed, and even the time since the driver took a rest from driving, all of which are able to support an organisation's duty of care obligations towards its staff.

GPS vehicle tracking systems have traditionally been used by fleet operators for fleet tracking and fleet management. Operators have been using these systems for a number of purpose including monitoring route scheduling and managing real-time changes in circumstances that require altering the schedule. Certain Vehicle Tracking systems can also used for rationalizing the routing plan. Thus GPS vehicle tracking can be of immense value to complex logistic businesses and can help you them a substantial amount of money by carefully planning and rationalizing the resources.

Other benefits that became increasingly evident include the use of GPS vehicle tracking systems to reduce the impact of theft, leading to many insurance companies offering reduced premiums to vehicles fitted with a suitable tracking system. There is also a growing realisation within the haulage industry that not only is it important to track the HGV tractor unit, but also the trailers which of course have their own independent movement, and not always with an HGV truck from the same company. It is hardly a surprise that the emergency services such as the fire brigade and ambulance services find that the operational efficiencies that they can obtain through knowing the precise location of their vehicles are often very significant. In fact any business that relies on vehicles of any sort to deliver their service are likely to be able to improve their operational efficiency through having the vehicles' whereabouts at their finger tips.

To conclude, in today's environment, whether you are in transportation or manufacturing, hospitality or healthcare, supply chain or car rentals, vehicle tracking systems can add another level of intelligence to your business which in turn provides opportunities to improve operational effectiveness as well as reducing costs.

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Iain Jones works with Zest Tracking - a leading UK provider of Vehicle Tracking solutions. Visit http://www.zesttracking.co.uk for further details