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GPS Fleet Tracking – Your Options

January 7th, 2012

Fleet Services Managers find that the use of GPS vehicle tracking systems is a cheap and reliable facility that makes their role of controlling vehicle resources that much easier. Modern GPS vehicle tracking systems are able to offer Fleet Managers up to date information about the allocation of their resources through live tracking feeds.

GPS live tracking enables a number of useful facilities that both enhance customer services and provide companies with cost saving practices, which are very much welcomed during the current economical climate. The ability to immediately see where a company’s resources are located increases response times and in the case of emergency services can shave valuable seconds off arrivals.

Taxi and delivery or courier services also benefit vastly from using GPS live tracking as it is useful in directing vehicles to difficult to find addresses or provide the nearest response vehicle to a particular customer. This again increases response times and gives a better customer experience and service, which is particularly useful during peak traffic periods or occasions of heavy demand. Increased security and zoning are other features that result from installing fleet vehicles with GPS tracking systems. The data produced by tracking systems also includes that vehicles status, so if a van suddenly moves without reason there is a likelihood it may have been stolen. Alternatively should a forklift truck leave its designated warehouse, again theft may be the reason.

Zoning or Geotagging where users create a predetermined geographical area and should the vehicle tracker be taken outside of this zone it will issue an alert. This could equally be used to warn controllers if a vehicle was entering a notorious area of traffic congestion or a prohibited region. Just as indications of a vehicles status can help with security, so too can geotagging and should the defined geographical area be crossed it may be due to criminal intent.

Live GPS tracking has also proved useful in the retrieval of stolen property and the ability for Fleet Managers and police forces to follow vehicles has had serious impact on commercial crime. » Read more: GPS Fleet Tracking – Your Options

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GPS Tracking For International Deliveries

January 4th, 2012

The beauty of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is that they are just that, global. Any vehicle system, vehicle or device that employs a GPS tracker can be located pretty much anywhere across the planet. The commercial uses for such pinpoint accuracy are growing daily but for lots of companies the ability to allocate and distribute resources have been revolutionised in recent years by fitting GPS trackers to their fleet vehicles.

GPS tracking with its worldwide coverage and live tracking feeds has made parcel delivery and courier services a lot simpler. Fleet Managers and Delivery Controllers are able to instantly tell where their customer’s goods are and whether there is likely to be a delay, expected time of delivery and real-time progress reports.

The use of GPS tracer units has also changed the perception of parcel delivery from the customer’s perspective. Once delivery times were vague and parcels could easily get lost for weeks upon end, these days it’s more likely that a company will now know exactly where that much anticipated delivery is en-route and just when there will be a knock at the door.

This ability to asset track means that even if the courier company is having difficulty locating the final delivery point they are still able to inform the customer where their post is currently being held. For many customers even just the knowledge of where their goods are in transit is better than nothing at all.

The two main types of GPS tracking systems that are used are data loggers and data pushers.

Data loggers have an in-built memory chip and record the journey taken by the monitored vehicle, recording preset perimeters onto either a memory card or an internal flash memory. This data can be later retrieved and downloaded to give a detailed report of the driver’s journey, providing information about location, speed and direction.

Data pushers are the most common GPS tracker used in delivery and postal services as they give a real time tracking ability and an up to the minute location guide or can be set to transmit updated location data at preset intervals. » Read more: GPS Tracking For International Deliveries