GPS Tracking: Increase Accountability, Cut Losses and Minimize Payroll Discrepencies
GPS Tracking solves real business problems. Its not just a speed checker or gee whiz combination of hardware and software.
In today’s economy, keeping your fleet moving, under control and efficient is a key to being successful. With the cost of insurance, payroll and commodities like fuel, plumbing and building supplies skyrocketing being in control of your movable assets is critical. TrackerSystems.net offers a full range of functionality to help customers do just that.
Unauthorized Fuel Transfer is an interesting problem in today’s economy. Today, more so than previous years, fuel is an extremely valuable commodity. A fully fueled truck can carry hundreds of dollars of fuel and its a tempting target: its hard to track, its often unsupervised and its mobile and worst of all, the operator may be selling the fuel for additional income. Tracker Systems offers a multi-pronged approach to minimizing what has come to be known as ‘Unauthorized Fuel Transfers’. First, standard mapping mode with full playback allows for easy scanning for extended stops at unplanned locations. Customers can set an unlimited number of Geofences to alert for entry into locations that are off route and unauthorized. Geofence, as well as speeding and unauthorized use alerts come standard with online reporting and optional email reporting. Another critical tool are some of the detailed reports that come standard in Tracker Systems report suite. Key among them are the detailed stop reports combined with address readout for reviewing where the truck or vehicle may have been for unauthorized extended periods of time. A new mileage report allows comparison of miles traveled over time versus expected fuel efficiency to correlate with fueling stops. Further the mileage is based on GPS satellite data, rather than the vehicles odometer, reducing the threat of tampering.
Standard with all TrackerSystems.net packages is GeoFence reporting. The feature allows the users to define a region on the map and specify where vehicles can and can’t go. Downtime from equipment theft is a big problem for all companies, but not more so than the landscaping industry where the seasons are short and the competition so readily available. A landscaping company in South Florida raves “finally, we can track our trailers all over South Florida, and, most importantly for us, we can set alarms when they go where we don’t want them to go.” He went on to say “before Tracker Systems, we never knew where the trucks ‘really were’. Losing a mower to theft means insurance hassles, downtime for our crews and unhappy customers. Takes a long time to recover.”
A new custom reporting add-on module allows a customer to upload dispatch reports from their appointment system and compare with actual reports from TrackerSystems.net. The integrated reporting allows a cross-check on time reporting and job reporting, minimizing the risk of company supplies and trucks being used for moonlighting. A principle of a Florida service company said “the integrated reporting is terrific. We know where we tell our mechanics to be and where are trucks really are, and we now have the discrepancy reports to help us work through the differences.”
Ease of use along with full featured functionality is often cited by customers as the reason for selecting Tracker Systems. A service company in Texas wrote on his order “I looked at 5 different companies, got walkthroughs from all of them. Tracker Systems, on feature after feature, was the easiest to and communicated the information I needed. I’m not a computer guy, but I’m really comfortable with their system.”
Tracker Systems tracking software is available for your PC or Mac and works with most recent web browsers. A mobile version with mapping and basic on-the-go reports is available for some mobile phones. Subscriptions to both services come standard with all accounts. The tracking system consists of a small device, not much bigger than a pack of playing cards that can be hidden under the dashboard of most vehicles or in the engine compartments of many other movable assets like mowers, power generators and golf carts.
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