Vehicle Tracking Is Set To Grow By 30% This Year Alone

According to a recent publication, the number of vehicles now fitted with a vehicle tracking device has reached around four hundred thousand in the UK and the market is look to increase by another thirty percent this year alone.

Companies are continually looking for new ways to save money and this can be achieved easily with a vehicle tracking system installed into the fleet.

Tracking companies say that the fleet managers are calling upon their systems as they are striving to improve their business and increase productivity and efficiency and lower their overall operational costs. Vehicle tracking systems also give fleet managers the inside knowledge of where all their vehicles are at all times in real time. They can monitor the direction they are travelling in, the speed in which they are travelling and the stops and breaks they take.

Data that is recorded by a vehicle tracking system can then be collated and used for time sheets, therefore reducing g the amount of administration the company has to undertake. This also hugely helps with inaccurate claims for overtime and a reduction in fuel of around 15% can often be visible.

Some staff have raised objections to vehicle tracking because they feel it is an invasion on their privacy however if it is the out of hours driving that they do not want to be monitored, based on they are allowed to use the vehicle then they can stop the company y from seeing this information and only be viewable during work hours.