Fleet tracking is a necessity for both individuals and organizations. Assets such as vehicles and transit cargo must be monitored at all times, if you intend to avoid the risks and unnecessary expenses that are associated with owning such assets.

1. Why You Need Fleet Tracking For Your Business.
Fleet tracking is a necessity for both individuals and organizations. Assets such as vehicles
and transit cargo must be monitored at all times, if you intend to avoid the risks and
unnecessary expenses that are associated with owning such assets. These risks include
misuse, theft and accidents, whereas the expenses include fuel and maintenance costs,
insurance premiums, and liability due to accidents. To safeguard against these risks and
save on the costs, many companies use GPS fleet tracking systems. Below is a brief
summary of the benefits that GPS tracking can offer your business.
How Your Business Will Benefit From Fleet Tracking
Rapid Asset Tracing and
Recovery: In the event that
your vehicle or transit cargo
is stolen, you can use your
Fleet tracking device to
quickly pin-point its location,
then alert security and law
enforcement personnel to
recover it. Some fleet
tracking systems come with
an immobilizer to enable you
stop the vehicle remotely to
allow for quicker recovery.
Asset Tracking: You can easily
track the movement of your vehicles or transit cargo by using a Fleet tracker. In this way,
you are able to save on security related expenses, since you have up to the minute
information as to where your assets are located, and what is happening in real-time. In
addition, you are able accurately estimate delivery or arrival time of your consignments,
since
you
can
monitor
en-route
status.
Real-time Status: For sensitive installations such as refrigerated cargo, Fleet tracking
enables you to monitor the real-time status of your consignment. For instance, you can be
checking for up to the minute the temperatures, or even the condition of security seals.
Instant Alerts: GPS tracking enables you to get instant alerts from your vehicle. These
alerts could be due to over-speeding, driver straying off route, tampering with transit

2. cargo, or panic button being pressed to signal an emergency. The GPS device must be
programmed to relay these alerts.
Journey Replay: The GPS fleet tracking systems come with a �journey replay’ feature,
which allows you to look at the history of your vehicles movement, minute-by-minute.
This feature enables you to go back in time and extract detailed information about your
vehicle, during a specified journey. As such, you can easily extract insightful fleet reports
such as the location, speed, direction, status, of your vehicles for the entire period they
were on a trip. As such, you can easily tell the movement of your fleet from start-up to
shut-down.
Enforce Discipline: Fleet tracking is a great way to enforce discipline among drivers, since
you are able to monitor their movements. This monitoring is important since it
discourages drivers from deviating from their routes, making unauthorized stops along
the way, over-speeding, and other cases of indiscipline. This increases efficiency in
dispatching and routing, hence timely delivery.
Lower Insurance Premiums: Since fleet tracking reduces indiscipline among drivers, on
one hand, and secures your assets from accidents and theft as well, you are able to
negotiate for lower insurance premiums. This is because the risk for insuring your assets
is greatly reduced.