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In Car Camera System: Helping To Protect Fleets

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Help Protect Your Fleet With A GoFleet In Car Camera System

GoFleet offers an in car camera system by Zone Defense as an add-on to their GPS fleet management solution. You will be able to capture what happens both outside and inside of the vehicle in high resolution and real-time. Fleet owners are using the in car camera system to protect their vehicles and their drivers. For example, many taxi companies require an in car dash camera be installed in all of their taxicabs. This decreases liability in the case of an accident and increases the taxi drivers’ safety from passengers behaving in an unlawful manner. Regardless of the fleet owner’s industry, installing an in car camera system can provide many valuable benefits.

In Car Camera System Packages And Options

GoFleet has a wide array of in car camera system packages and options for fleet owners to choose from including night vision cameras, heated cameras and license plate cameras.  Some of the packages and options from GoFleet include:

License Plate Camera: The license plate camera can be easily connected to the vehicle’s license plate using the license plate’s existing screws. There are four infrared emitters with a super wide 180° view.

Digital Video Recorders: Zone Defense provides all of the same features that you expect from the expensive and large in car camera system DVRs, however, their DVRs are small, easy to use, simple to install and affordable.

DVR Monitor: The in car camera system DVR monitor is a one-piece solution for fleet owners. There are multiple features in the DVD monitor that are necessary for the efficiency and safety of your fleet.

LCD Monitor Plus Cameras: GoFleet has two in car camera system LCD monitor and camera options available. The 5” LCD monitor has a built in trigger switch to side or reverse camera views with 3 camera inputs. The 7” LCD monitor and camera has all the same features as the 5” monitor but it has 4 camera inputs.

How Your Fleet Can Avoid Traffic Violations

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Traffic Violations: How Your Fleet Can Avoid Them

Operating a fleet of vehicles involves fuel, maintenance, repair and insurance costs. It should not have to include traffic violation costs such as speeding tickets, parking tickets or photo enforcement tickets. However, some businesses just add these unnecessary expenses as part of the cost of doing business. Other companies make the drivers responsible for any of these violation costs. What all business owners seem to agree on is that traffic violations are a burdensome and costly problem for fleet operations.

As there are more advances in traffic violation practices by law enforcement, driven by photo enforced tickets, the issue of traffic violations has become a more visible topic in the world of operating fleets. These technological advancements are making it less costly and easier for law enforcement to cite vehicles which, in turn, increases the potential amount of traffic violations a business’ fleet could receive. Using a GPS fleet management system can help businesses save money and avoid traffic violations.

When a business uses a GPS fleet management system, they can keep track of where each vehicle is at all times. Automatic alerts can be set up to notify fleet managers if their drivers are speeding or driving aggressively. These alerts can be sent to the fleet managers even when they are offline via email or SMS text messaging. Fleet managers are able to contact the driver to have them immediately correct their driving behavior avoiding an unnecessary traffic violation.

GPS fleet management systems are also helpful because reports can be created based on the drivers’ driving habits. This allows business owners and fleet managers to identify issues with specific drivers that are consistently demonstrating poor driving habits. Those drivers might need additional training or long-term corrective action.

Businesses can avoid traffic violations by establishing a safety policy, tracking drivers and taking immediate action for violations. Tracking their drivers’ behavior and identifying high-risk drivers using a GPS fleet management system are both essential to reduce the risk of traffic violations. If a driver violates the business’ safety policy, immediate action must be taken such as mandatory training. Businesses find utilizing all of the features of a GPS fleet management system and establishing a culture of safety can prevent traffic accidents, traffic violations and costly traffic violation costs.

Fleet Maintenance Program: Reduce Liability & Increase Safety

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How A Fleet Maintenance Program Can Reduce Your Business’ Liability & Increase Safety

Businesses with fleet operations have many unique costs associated with their fleet. Vehicles require a significant amount of capital investment, in addition to maintenance and fuel costs. Many business owners and fleet managers often overlook the hidden costs associated with fleet operations. If there is a lack of safety measures for the fleet, businesses could incur a significant amount of out-of-pocket expenses, increase liabilities and put people’s lives in jeopardy. Implementing GoFleet’s fleet maintenance program is an easy way to improve safety, protect mobile assets and protect a business from unnecessary liabilities.

A Focus On Vehicle Safety

When a business implements GoFleet’s fleet maintenance program, they will automatically improve the safety of the vehicles, drivers and others on the road. Businesses will be able significantly reduce or eliminate payments for traffic tickets or accidents. As a matter of fact, the true cost of an accident is actually 2% to 10% higher than the accident’s direct costs. That is because the true costs of accident has a variety of hidden factors including: lost revenue while the vehicle is out of operation, failure to meet deadlines, increased insurance premiums, lost labor while driver is at the accident scene, missed jobs, and damage to the business’ public relations.

Furthermore, the business could be faced with finding a replacement for the injured driver. These costs could include job advertisement costs, driver performance tests, background checks, drug screening, training, and orientation, etc.

Improve Driving Habits

According to a study by the Large Truck Crash Causation, 87.2% of all large truck at-fault accidents are related to the driver’s poor driving habits. Without a GPS fleet maintenance program, it is hard to ensure your drivers’ safety compliance. With GoFleet’s fleet maintenance program, business owners and fleet managers have the ability to monitor their drivers’ behavior and take steps to improve it. Businesses can be notified immediately when a driver is speeding or driving aggressively. The alerts can appear on the fleet management software screen, flagged in management reports or be sent instantly via text message or email. These instant alerts allow the business owners or fleet managers to take immediate corrective action toward the offending driver. Management reports can also be used to identify habitual offenders so that long-term corrective action can be taken.

Using a proactive vehicle maintenance program, you can reduce your liability and increase your drivers’ safety. For more information about how partnering with GoFleet can enhance your business, Contact Us.

Fuel Management System: Prevent Fuel Theft

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Prevent Employee Fuel Theft With A Fuel Management System

When you run a business with fleet operations and you use a corporate credit card for fuel purchases, you run the risk of your employees abusing your card for their personal gain. It is unfortunate but fuel theft can occur at any business. Using a fuel management system with fuel cards can prevent fuel theft.

When you add-on a fuel management system to a GoFleet GPS fleet tracking system, you can track fuel purchases and make the smartest fuel purchase decisions. In addition to the many benefits of a GPS fleet tracking system, fuel cards allow fleet managers to be able to view and confirm daily fuel card expenditures. A fuel management system helps business owners and fleet managers to better understand their fuel costs.

Fleet managers are able to use the GoFleet fleet management system to spot inconsistencies in fuel purchases. The GPS fleet tracking system can be used to provide the vehicles’ specific location and it can be compared to the fuel purchase location and the amount of fuel purchased. If the vehicle is not in the location of the fuel purchase, this would indicate that your driver is participating in unsavory activities that should be investigated.

A fuel management system gives fleet managers and business owners a deeper insight into their fleet operating costs. Fuel card transactions are processed every day so they always have fuel information that is up-to-date. The fuel management system is fully integrated with GoFleet’s My.Geotab so no additional software is needed. There are many customized reports and configurable alerts that can be set up to monitor fuel metrics. Being able to spot fuel trends early will help prevent employee fuel theft.

Integrating fuel cards with a GPS fleet tracking system provides you with the true cost per gallon of fuel and miles per gallon. In addition, you will find out the true cost of idling when your drivers idle for climate control. Knowledge of your fleet’s true fuel usage is important to save costs and reduce the risk of theft.

Go Green With A GPS Fleet Management System

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GPS Fleet Management Tracking Device Helps Businesses Go Green

Many businesses are feeling pressure to adopt “green” business practices and to reduce their carbon footprint. Some feel, however, that it is too big of a job to tackle and going “green” would not be worth the effort. In fact, having “green” fleet operations helps both businesses and the earth.

Reducing a business’ carbon footprint is easy with GPS fleet management. Fleet management software optimizes routes and dispatching to make the most efficient use of a fleet’s fuel consumption. Dispatchers are able to send the closest vehicles to job sites, reducing the amount of miles driven. Using fleet maintenance reports and alerts, businesses can ensure their vehicles are all efficiently operating. By controlling drivers speeding habits, excessive idling and aggressive driving, businesses can reduce their fleet’s emissions and the amount of fuel that is wasted.

Go Green By Reducing Fuel Consumption

GPS fleet management provides efficient routing for the drivers. They will have the most direct route from one location to another. The faster and shorter the route, the higher a business’ productivity is and the less money that will have to be spent in fuel costs. In addition, reducing the amount of miles driven reduces greenhouse gas pollution. This translates into a significant amount of carbon reductions plus a savings of thousands of dollars per vehicle.



Go Green With GPS Fleet Management Maintenance Reports

GPS green fleet management software allows businesses to remotely monitor important fleet information such as engine fault codes, status of the emissions control system and motor oil life. Business owners or fleet managers are able to set up reminders that can be sent via email or SMS text message for vehicle tune-ups, tire rotation and oil changes. These service alerts can be used to immensely decrease fuel usage and help businesses to maintain a “green” fleet. According to the Department of Transportation, it is estimated that over 5 million gallons of fuel are wasted each day because of low tire pressure. Furthermore, the United States Environmental Protection Agency reports that an engine that is poorly tuned can produce 50% more emissions and use 50% more fuel than an engine that is properly tuned-up.



GPS fleet management helps businesses run efficient fleet operations, reduces operating costs and helps save our planet by reducing greenhouse emissions.

Route Planning Software: Reliable Fleet Management

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Reliable Fleet Management With GoFleet’s Route Planning Software.

Managing fleet vehicles and drivers is next to impossible without using reliable real time GPS tracking with route management software. Luckily, GoFleet has a fleet management software integration that was developed to manage all parts of fleet management including vehicle maintenance, labor, driver management, routing and driver dispatching.

GoFleet’s route planning software integration is web-based and can be accessed using any computer or mobile devices with an internet connection. This convenient software makes real time fleet management easy for fleet managers in any location. They are not stuck working at the office where the route planning software is installed on a local computer.

Dynamic Route Planning

GoFleet’s route planning software simplifies and automates fleet routing and scheduling. Dispatchers have a real-time view of the fleet operations. Drivers can be provided with the fastest and most efficient route to job-sites. In addition, job scheduling and dispatching can be done quickly in response to real-time events. This is especially important in businesses that have narrow fulfillment windows or when late deliveries have high penalties. GoFleet’s route planning software can automatically re-plan routes in the event of traffic, breakdowns or emergency service orders.

Fleet Tracking

One major benefit of GPS fleet tracking and route planning software is that it allows fleet managers to see exactly where drivers are located and where they have previously been. All location information is easy to access on real-time live maps.

Reminders and Alerts for Vehicle Service and Management Issues

Fleet managers and business owners have the ability to set up reminders for vehicle service and alerts for management issues such as driver speeding, driving out of the authorized area and idling excessively.

Management Reports and Histories

When all fleet operation data is stored in the route planning software, it is simple to compile management reports and vehicle/driver histories that can help a business improve efficiency and reduce costs. Reports can be created for fuel usage, routes driven, driver’s habits and much more.

GoFleet’s route management software can enhance a business’ fleet operations by increasing productivity, improving customer service and reducing costs. Businesses will see their return on investment within a matter of months of implementing the system. For more information speak with one of our fleet consultants at 1-888-998-1122.

Fleet Management GPS Technology Increases Fuel Efficiency

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Increase Fuel Efficiency With Fleet Management GPS Technology

The cost of operating and owning a vehicle in the U.S. has increased by approximately 2% in the past year, according to “Your Driving Costs” study by AAA. In addition, the cost of fuel has also increased by almost 2% a year since 2013, on top of the 15% increase in 2012. For businesses with fleet operations, these increased costs can significantly affect the company’s financial outlook. Eliminating excessive fuel costs by reducing fuel usage can considerably impact a business’ bottom line. Fleet management GPS technology can help business owners run their business more efficiently and reduce unnecessary fuel usage.

When a business implements fleet management GPS technology, they are able to eliminate excessive fuel usage using the fleet management software. When the vehicles are driven off-route, they are wasting fuel. With a fleet management solution, fleet managers and business owners will be able to make sure their drivers are where they are supposed to be and that they are driving the most efficient routes. Drivers will no longer be able to drive miles out of the way just to get a cappuccino from their favorite coffee shop. Drivers making a few off route personal stops can add up to hundreds of miles over a year.

Fleet management GPS technology also can be used to eliminate drivers’ bad habits including excessively idling for climate control. This will reduce fuel costs as well as reduce wear and tear on the vehicles. As a matter of fact, when a vehicle idles excessively, for 5 minutes or more, fuel consumption can increase by approximately 5%. This results in reduced profits and has the potential of damaging the vehicles’ engines.

Another factor in fuel wastage is driver speeding. When drivers are speeding, business owners and fleet managers can be alerted in real-time via SMS text message or email message. In addition to reducing fuel usage, managing drivers’ poor driving habits increases the safety of a business’ drivers and the safety of other drivers on the road.

Real Time Vehicle Tracking Add-On: Salter/Sander Monitoring System

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Salter/Sander Monitoring System Add-On Available With GoFleet’s Real Time Vehicle Tracking

GoFleet’s offers a control point integration salter/sander monitoring system by Dickey-John as an add-on to their real time vehicle tracking system. The salter/sander monitoring system provides the time, distance and amount of liquid and granular materials that are spread out. This is an optimal management solution for businesses that provide salt spreading services during the winter months after storm events.

When you add-on the salter/sander monitoring system to your real time vehicle tracking system, you will receive more fleet management features for your business. You will now have a map view of the roads or areas that sand, salt or other material was applied. In addition to having an accurate location recorded for the area that was blasted, you will be able to keep track of the quantity and distance of the sand or salt that was used. The real time vehicle tracking system is fully integrated with the Dickey-John sander and salter monitoring system allowing you to have records of the amount of time that is spent applying the material. These features will help you to make your business more efficient.

Adding a salter/sander monitoring system on to your real time vehicle tracking system provides many valuable benefits for your business. It allows you to be able to compare application rates to ensure your drivers are not under or over applying the material. Furthermore, you will identify when material is wasted so you can put a stop to the waste and save your business money. There are many management reports available for your convenience or you can create customized reports for your specific business needs. The best part is, the Dickey-John sander/salter monitoring system is fully integrated with your real time vehicle tracking Geotab software so you can access all of the fleet management information and reports in one place.

GPS Satellite Tracker: Take The Stress Out Of Fleet Management

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Take The Stress Out Of Fleet Management With GoFleet’s GPS Satellite Tracker

Across the world, businesses are using GoFleet’s GPS satellite tracker to effortlessly manage their fleet of vehicles. What once was a stressful job, fleet management now can be done with ease to make a business run more efficiently, boosting productivity and reducing fleet operating costs.

With GoFleet’s GPS satellite tracker installed on your fleet vehicles, you can rest assured that you are using a premium fleet management system that you can rely on. There is an extensive variety of software management tools that will make your fleet manager’s job easier. The web-based software can be accessed from any computer or mobile device with an internet connection. Even when your fleet managers are offline, you can still keep track of your vehicles and keep an eye on your drivers with alerts that can be set up to be sent by email or SMS text message. These alerts can include notifications when vehicle goes in an unauthorized area, the driver is speeding, driving aggressively or excessively idling.

Using a GPS satellite tracker system from GoFleet provides you with a 360˚ view of your fleet operations including vehicle locations, engine diagnostics, fleet management reports, vehicle history, alerts, and messages. There are many fleet management system features that can be tailored specifically to your business. Unlike other fleet management options, you will not have to worry about getting charged for costly customization. GoFleet is your fleet management solution partner that will help you reduce operating costs related to fuel, driver management and maintenance.

Regardless of the size of your business, there is an affordable GoFleet GPS satellite tracker solution that will make your business more efficient without breaking the bank. Implementing a GPS satellite tracker system in your fleet is simple and fast. You will be able to see a return on your investment within a matter of months.

GPS Capabilities In Anklet Helps Juvenile Court System

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Anklet With GPS Capabilities Helps Juvenile Courts

As many people stop using landlines in their home, they are still a must-have for most people on house arrest. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the juvenile system uses ankle bracelets that are really cell phones with GPS capabilities. Landlines are no longer necessary. It is a different story for non-violent offenders in the adult system, they still need this old telephone technology to serve house arrest. If the adults do not have a working landline at their home with no features including call waiting or DSL the do not qualify for house arrest.

These new house arrest devices with cell phone and GPS capabilities have other advantages also. For example, the young offenders can be monitored when they are approved to leave their house. The juvenile probation officers know where the juveniles are 24 hours a day – 7 days a week using the GPS capabilities of the ankle bracket. In addition, the juvenile probation officers can speak to the juvenile offenders via the GPS device with voice capabilities.

The ankle bracelet with GPS capabilities also has a software installed that can help solve crimes. If there is a high profile crime, shooting or any other crime in the area, the ankle bracelet with GPS capabilities can be used to put in a time and address from the crime to see if there were any youth that were in the area at the time of the crime.

In addition, the ankle bracelet with GPS capabilities has a locator that is an alarm that sounds like a police siren. If a juvenile offender violates the terms of his or her release, the siren will help authorities locate the offender if they are trying to hide. This is helpful if the offender is hiding in a large crowd or even in a home. The siren is so loud, the probation officers will have a much easier time locating a house-arrest violator.