Truck Tracking Software: Keeping Tabs On Your Truck FleetOne of the most important things for the truck fleet manager is to be able to track the location of the any truck in the fleet. It used to be a difficult if not impossible task, with the only real means of knowing the whereabouts of a truck being when the driver called in by telephone to give his position. It was also a big job to keep control of all the other aspects of the freight business, such having reports of the time a driver spent on the road and so on. All this has become easier with the advent of truck tracking software which shows the availability for work of each vehicle in the fleet, allows easy planning of jobs and routes, has the ability to track the truck drivers and also generate reports of daily activity. This article will look at these considerations and what should be borne in mind when choosing a truck tracking software package. For any freight business, one of the most important and difficult tasks is to know which vehicles within the fleet are available for work, or will become available for work soon, and which are still on the road hauling freight. The software should make use of a tracking system, usually based on the GPS system which is extremely accurate, so that the fleet management control center can get an instant overview of where each and every truck in the fleet is at that time. The ability to know the whereabouts of each truck will make it easy to know which trucks can be sent to a new job. The tracking software should also include some kind of planning module, which enables the fleet manager to plan the jobs which are coming up in order to make the most efficient use of the fleet. Without proper planning software there may well be times when some of the vehicles will be without freight to carry or, even worse, times when a customer has a job and there are no trucks available to take the job. As well as tracking the vehicle, the software may well have an ability to track the driver or driver activity. This will include such things as creating a profile for each river and tracking such things as driving style, speed and adherence to the route. This enables the truck tracking software to integrate with other parts of the freight business such as driver retention and training. Another thing to look for when buying a tracking package is what if any other software packages or software modules the package will integrate with. One of the most popular and useful packages in the fleet management industry is that of mileage software. If the tracking software being considered does not come with mileage software as an integral part of the package it might we worthwhile to check that it can work with a separate mileage package. As can be seen, there is a lot to think about when choosing a truck tracking package, and choosing the right one can have positive effects on the bottom line of a freight business. It pays to take some time to look at packages from different vendors, do some research on each of them and take advice before making a final choice. |