Vehicle Tracking Archive

A report commissioned by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has questioned the effectiveness of some road safety strategies and has said that companies implementing unproven techniques may be wasting their money.

Over 25 percent of all road accidents involve workers driving for their job and a staggering 200 workers are killed or seriously injured every week on UK roads.

With figures like these there is no doubting the moral and commercial motives behind employers pursuing safer driving practices, with the down time and insurance implications of even minor accidents accounting for a huge cost to UK businesses. But the report brings in to doubt the effectiveness of driver training claiming there is no evidence that it improves road safety.

The IOSH report does however state that in-vehicle data recorders and safer driving incentives showed promised along with safer driving group discussions and training focused on giving drivers an insight into their limitations, as opposed to simply training them on vehicle control skills.

Many vehicle tracking systems include features to record driving style such as harsh breaking, hard acceleration and speeding and further more can automatically alert the employer to any drivers that are putting themselves at risk. Because vehicle tracking systems record this data and present it in reports it also offers an excellent way to identify safer drivers and reward them accordingly.

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Geofencing, ring fencing or location monitoring are all names for setting a predetermined area on your vehicle tracking system. When one of your vehicles enters or leaves these geofences you are sent an alert via mobile phone, email or both. Here are 3 uses for geofencing: (more…)

OnStar is a telematics service and is a part of the General Motors group. OnStar have introduced a brand new product called Family Link. It was released last week and essentially it is a product which enables parents to track their teenage children. (more…)

West Dunbartonshire Council has saved a whopping £100,000 in fuel costs in a year as a result of the TomTom vehicle tracking system which is installed in their fleet of vehicles. (more…)

According to a report by the RAC the standard of maintenance of fleet vehicles has dropped since last year with incidents of illegal tyres and defective lights more than twice what they were in 2010. In addition there was a 26% increase in vehicles found with inadequate under bonnet fluid levels (i.e. water and oil). (more…)

If you run a fleet of vehicles which are taken home by your employees each night, then you may want to prove how much of the vehicles millage is private millage. (more…)

Running a fleet of vehicles big or small is a challenge in itself without the added burden of trying to keep costs down in the face of rising fuel and insurance prices. But the simple fact is there are only two ways to cut your fuel bill, you either buy it for less or use less of it and TrackCompare.co.uk has a full range of services to help you do exactly that.

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By implementing a tracking system you can see straight away where your vehicles are and where they have been. You can ensure jouneys are efficient and that there are no non-work trips on company fuel, you can even make sure they are being driven efficiently by monitoring hard acceleration and speeding. The vast majority of UK fleets don’t yet have tracking but those that do would never be without it.

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There are three main ways to pay for vehicle tracking and there are advantages and disadvantages to all three. (more…)

Often you need to know when a vehicle within your fleet enters or leaves certain areas. There are a myriad of reasons why you might need to know such information. For example, you may need to know when deliveries are made to certain customers. (more…)

Irish food company Glanbia plc is implementing Masternaut’s integrated vehicle tracking and environmental management solution GreenerFleet across its dairy and chilled food delivery fleet. The real-time web-based service will enable Glanbia to focus on fuel management and reduce CO2 emissions. (more…)