You’ve probably heard that GPS fleet tracking offers many benefits to a wide range of businesses. What you may not know is that garage door repair services, just like yours, can benefit greatly with the addition of GPS fleet tracking services to your vehicles. These are just a few of those ways.

Optimize Routing for Greater Efficiency

Routing is one of the biggest challenges you’re going to face daily in your business. What can take painstaking hours to plan out when working routes by hand can be done in a matter of seconds with GPS tracking and with more efficient routes for fuel economy and for your drivers’ time. GPS fleet tracking can even be used to find the most efficient routes for last-minute add ons in your garage repair schedule too.

Improve Customer Satisfaction

You know, better than anyone, that when your customers call for service, they want it now. Garage doors provide fast access to people’s homes and countless items they value. When their doors aren’t working effectively, they may face new challenges keeping unwanted people from seeing into their garages or even entering their homes. It’s understandable that they want their garage doors repaired fast.

GPS fleet tracking allows you to provide accurate garage door repair appointment windows, so your customers aren’t waiting around all day for you to show up at the last minute – and so that your customers can make plans around the time your repair men and women will arrive.

Encourage Safer Driving by Drivers

Your drivers represent your company when they are on the road. If they drive aggressively, cut people off, or operate vehicles at unsafe speeds, it reflects poorly on your business.

GPS tracking will not only track their behavior behind the wheel, so you can monitor it, but you can also set up notifications that will message you instantly if drivers are speeding, hard braking, swerving, and other actions that indicate aggressive or dangerous driving. This allows you to address the problems immediately and safeguard your good reputation.

The little things, like these, can make a huge difference in your garage door repair reputation as well as how much money you earn from month to month. GPS fleet tracking can help you improve all these things while assisting you in improving vehicle maintenance routines, cutting fuel costs, and reducing unnecessary overtime.

And most of all, it can help you to build a larger base of satisfied customers who will not only use your services again someday, but also recommend you to their friends.

Do you own or manage a garage door repair or installation company? Does it have a fleet of vehicles? If so, contact us here at LiveViewGPS to learn how your garage door repair services company can benefit from GPS fleet tracking. 1-888-544-0494

Today the driver shortage is hitting fleets hard. In 2014, the trucking industry experienced a shortage of nearly 38,000 drivers. By the year 2024, though, that number is predicted to be much higher, approaching the 175,000 mark, according to the 2015 American Trucking Association’s Driver Shortage Report.

That shifts the paradigm to a large degree forcing trucking fleet owners to look for new ways to not only attract quality drivers to their ranks, but to keep them there once they’ve found them. GPS fleet tracking can help you do just that in all the ways listed below and more.

Monitor Driver Behavior Behind the Wheel and Reward Good Drivers

The flip-side, of course, is that you can correct the negative driving behavior of other drivers. Eliminating drivers who speed, idle excessively, drive aggressively, and otherwise give your business a bad name, allows you to reward the drivers who perform up to your standards with better routes, more time at home, and bonuses.

Plan More Efficient Routes

Keep in mind that keeping quality drivers is as important as attracting them in the first place. GPS fleet tracking can plan highly efficient routes that give your drivers more time at home. That keeps them happy and motivated for the next route.

Ensures Safe Driving by Tracking Hours Behind the Wheel

Rest is important for drivers on the road. It helps them keep their heads clear and reaction times swift, so they can face the various challenges the road will throw at them in a day. GPS tracking can warn you when your drivers are approaching company prescribed thresholds for time behind the wheel, so you can get your driver to either take a break for the sake of his or her health or bed down for the night. This keeps the roads safer and results in fewer lost hours from avoidable accidents.

Help Carriers Recruit Younger Drivers

Another benefit GPS fleet tracking offers is that the high-tech nature of the tracking is something younger drivers find attractive. Adopting GPS technology gives you an advantage in attracting younger drivers other competitors may overlook and can help you build a fleet of young drivers who are loyal to your company because of your high-tech approach to business.

Of course, these are all in addition to the myriad benefits GPS fleet tracking provides on its own, like fuel conservation, insurance discounts, and reduction of unnecessary overtime expenses. If you’re looking for a way to weather the lean days ahead when it comes to available drivers, GPS fleet tracking is an excellent first step. Talk to our experts here at LiveViewGPS to help choose the right GPS fleet tracking products or system for you, your company and your valued fleet drivers. 1-888-544-0494

On Christmas Eve, six men were caught on surveillance camera doing a little shopping of their own – for luxury vehicles. Only these men had no intention of paying for their purchases, choosing to abscond with five high-end vehicles from Atlanta Fine Cars located in Jonesboro.

Thieves cut through the gates earlier in the day and then returned around 7:30 that evening before selecting their cars and driving away.

The men made off in the night with a fine selection of vehicles that included a BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, and two Bentleys. While the theft occurred on Christmas Eve, it wasn’t until workers returned to work following the holiday that staff from the dealership were able to assist police in locating the vehicles through the use of GPS tracking devices in the cars.

Two of the five vehicles were located in Dekalb county and all five suffered from substantial damage. Police are actively investigating the accident but there have been no arrests made in the robberies. Police continue to seek assistance in identifying the men who committed the crime and a reward is offered for those who help.

Thanks to GPS tracking for cars, though, the police were able to recover the vehicles for the business, which is a reminder to all dealerships of the importance of considering GPS tracking – at least for high-value vehicles that make attractive targets for thieves.

If it hadn’t been for the holiday, perhaps the police would have been able to recover the vehicles before the extensive damage had been done to them. Another consideration for dealerships is to invest in GPS tracking services that send out instant notifications or alerts when vehicles move during designated “rest” times. This would have notified management immediately of the thefts so that instant action could be taken that may have recovered the vehicles before any damage had been done.

Time is critical when theft is involved. GPS tracking can be instrumental in the swift recovery of vehicles and other valuable items when thefts occur. The key is to notify the police quickly, so that they can intervene to recover your vehicles and arrest the person or persons responsible when possible. You should never to attempt to stop or confront thieves on your own even if you do have GPS tracking to assist you in locating your stolen goods.

If you own or manage a automobile dealership, give us a call here at LiveViewGPS to learn how GPS tracking for cars can help your dealership.  1-888-544-0494