Accidents: Taking Preventive Measures with Fleet Management Software
Accidents happen. We hear it every day. But when it comes to your business fleet accidents are costly. They can also lead to a loss of productivity and negatively impact your company’s bottom line. Any perceived lack of safety is terrible for morale, especially if your drivers feel unprotected and undervalued. Fortunately, fleet management software can help.
Keep Your Fleet Running Efficiently with Fleet Management Software
As a fleet manager, dispatcher, and business owner, you want your vehicles to run smoothly. Fleet management software can help you avoid some of the most common causes of vehicle downtime. Fleet management has many aspects including monitoring driver safety, staying on top of vehicle location, and tracking fuel costs. ManageIt by Ituran covers all of these with a suite of driver behavior and safety features.
Increase Driver Safety
Encouraging safe driving habits is the first step in avoiding accidents. But the next step is carefully monitoring your drivers’ behaviors to make sure cautious driving rules are followed. Not all accidents are preventable because other drivers on the road may be at fault.
But if your fleet drivers aren’t using good judgment, accidents are far more likely. You cannot control driving conditions, but your drivers can control their speed, harsh acceleration, and other aggressive driving habits. Monitoring drivers’ behaviors is an effective way to keep employees safe and run your fleet smoothly.
Ituran’s ManageIt software notifies you when a driver is too close to the vehicle in front of it. The system will also record the event and add it to the driver’s evaluation report. The information allows you, as a business owner, to teach and encourage safer driving techniques.
Keeping an Eye on the Road
Technology can help identify dangers on the road that tired drivers may easily miss. The combination of Ituran’s Driver Behavior System and MOBILEYE’s Driver Assistance System can prevent accidents before they occur by warning drivers if another vehicle, pedestrian, or cyclist appears in their path.
Fuel monitoring
Fuel is one of a fleet’s most significant expenses. ManageIt helps manage those costs by letting you know when drivers are idling, speeding, or taking longer routes. You cannot control the cost of fuel, but you can make sure your company doesn’t waste any. Also, analyzing rate trip records can help pinpoint problems in routes and optimize the use of each fleet vehicle. Ituran’s fleet management software can help reduce waste due to inefficient routing, traffic delays, and vehicle idling.
As a fleet manager, you are sensitive to the risk of fuel theft. It’s a sad reality that happens every day in business. Drivers using vehicles for personal purposes can mean wasted fuel and unnecessary vehicle mileage. Consequently, monitoring drivers to protect against fuel theft.
Increased safety means increased savings
Superior fleet management is directly linked with your legal liability in accidents, fuel expenses, and maintenance costs. ManageIt’s fleet management software helps you improve safety, decrease wasted fuel, and increase your fleet’s efficiency.
Using fleet management software that is designed with your unique needs in mind can make a big difference for your business. If you want to know more about how implementing fleet management software can help boost your bottom line, contact us today at 866-543-5433. Our professional customer service team is available online 24-hours a day to answer your questions.
