When your customers have trouble with water in their basements they want help fast. Whether your business focuses on waterproofing basements before problems arise or you deal with homeowners trying to prevent future moisture problems in their basements, the odds are good that your customers all have one thing in common. They all want prompt service and attention from you and your drivers. This is where GPS fleet tracking can come in extremely useful.

Provide Drivers with Detailed Driving Instructions

This means the right basements are receiving your attention at all times. Communities are growing faster each year with new neighborhoods and addresses constantly cropping up. LiveView GPS tracking provides constant updates to the maps so you can drive with confidence that your drivers will reach their destinations on time thanks to outstanding navigation assistance by the GPS system. Read the rest of this entry »

In western Austria, a farmer with cows is swapping the standard cow bells for GPS tracking devices after receiving a complaint from irritated guests about the noise.

A cow bell is used to make it easier to locate animals, particularly cows, who wander off. Even though they have long been used on cows, cow bells are often used on many other types of animals. Cow bells are typically made from bronze, brass, iron, wood or copper and the collar that holds the bell is made with leather and wood fibers.

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In an effort to create a safer work environment for truck drivers and safer roads for everyone, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration established the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) rule, which requires that all trucks who are currently using paper logs or logging software transition to ELDs by December 18, 2017.

Those who are using Automatic On-Board Recording Devices to log the time drivers spend on the roads have until December 16, 2019 to comply with the ELD rule requiring them to install and use the appropriate devices by the deadlines states.

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The Villages has undergone a number of golf cart thefts recently leaving Villagers trying to figure out how they can keep their valuable possessions safe. Advantage Golf Cars offer the following tips:

Secure Your Garage

You can protect your golf cart and keep it from being stolen by parking it in your garage or another secure building. While you can’t thwart all thieves from getting to it, especially when you’re not home, parking your golf cart in your locked garage is always a good idea and decreases your risk of having it stolen.

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The year 2016 is closed and businesses of all shapes and sizes are looking to 2017 for areas where changes and improvements can be made. These are five small ways you can improve your business for big results in 2017 – courtesy of GPS fleet tracking technology.

1) Allows you to Monitor Driver Behavior More Closely

Drivers are a reflection on your company and bad driver behaviors put your reputation, your drivers, your vehicles, and the cargo they are carrying at risk. It wasn’t that long ago that your best opportunity to find out if your drivers were behaving irresponsibly behind the wheel was to leave it up to citizens to call 1-800 numbers to report bad driving or the number of traffic tickets coming in.

GPS tracking allows you to not only monitor driver behavior, but also to set up alerts to notify you when drivers are speeding, swerving, and displaying otherwise aggressive driving actions. You can also print out reports and use these reports as the basis for reprimands and promotions according to how drivers behave behind the wheel.

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