Vehicle Tracking Methods and Advice
Sunday, January 27th, 2008Anyone with a small to medium sized fleet of vehicles is probably well aware of the costs associated with traditional fleet tracking systems.
Consider up front and ongoing costs For the small and medium sized fleet operator, it can be difficult to get past the “sticker shock” of the up front costs associated with vehicle tracking systems. With the real-time data provided by GPS vehicle tracking systems, you can tell your customer where your employee is right now and estimate more accurately when your employee will be arriving.
Is an employee using your vehicle to moonlight? Is he using your gas to move his brother-in-law into a new apartment? You’ll know if you install a GPS vehicle tracking device in your vehicles.
Quite a number of small fleets, in the range of one to ten vehicles, do not use active vehicle tracking at all.
Breadcrumbs When requested by the owner, a trail of points can be displayed on the map, indicating a vehicle’s route during a certain time period.
She’s the owner of Solid Rock Accounting Services and has been in the bookkeeping, income tax, and payroll business for nine years.
In the next few years GPS tracking will be able to provide companies with a number of other advantages.
With more and more people being put onto watch lists by paranoid government bureaucrats and more and more people using the government to attack their enemies by putting them on watch lists, the costs are becoming quite high. The target can be picked back up if indeed their vehicles or method of transportation has been adequately tagged with proper equipment.
