Vehicle Tracking Automates Expenses

A vehicle tracking system offers companies benefits through minimising fuel costs and increasing their employee’s productivity. Another key feature many tracking systems offer is to automatically generate time sheet and mileage claims.

From an employee’s point of view completing mileage claim forms and time sheets is often considered to be a laborious task and they would much rather be getting on with their daily job roles. From a company’s point of view they have a strong interest in ensuring that the mileage claim forms and time sheets submitted by employees do not contain any inaccuracies and that no abuse has taken place. Expenses abuse costs UK companies millions of pounds each year.

Tracking systems monitor vehicle movements and store all data relating to mileage/kilometres travelled, journey time and driver start and finish times. The majority of tracking software is able to use this information to generate accurate mileage reports and employee time sheets. This tracking feature has reduced many companies expenses bill, sometimes by thousands, as it prevents any abuse or inaccuracies.

Many companies are also allowing their drivers that allowed to use the vehicle for personal use to access the tracking system (with restricted permissions) and use it to submit their claims where there is a need to discount any non work related journeys.