Why video telematics the next step in tackling driver distraction
No matter if you’re running a plumbing or a community service-based business, you’re often wearing multiple hats, so keeping on top of everything is a challenging necessity. From mechanics, cleaners, plumbers and electricians to computer services, restaurant deliveries, tourism operators, and healthcare providers – business owners and managers need to understand when, where and how teams are operating at all times.
What can you do? There are only so many hours in the day and too much to do. Let us introduce fleet management software.
GPS technology helps you pinpoint exactly where every asset in your fleet is at any time so you can respond immediately and even automate updates to the customer. It also helps you streamline your business in so many more ways than you may realise.
GPS and fleet management software today goes so much further than a dot on a map. It provides valuable data that helps you make informed business decisions. With access to both real-time and historical data, you can discover a range of ways to help streamline and grow your operation, all while being environmentally friendly, sustainable, and helping the whole community.
Here are 6 ways telematics and fleet management solutions can help your business.
- Creating a safer work environment
Teletrac Navman has a long history in fleet management, constantly looking at innovative ways to improve safety with the latest technology.
Alerting drivers when they are over the speed limit is just one of the safety tools we put in the hands of Australian drivers. With access to real-time analytics, you can help your drivers stay safe on the road by measuring performance and safety metrics.
You can do this all with the driver scorecard module. By working the data into coaching programs, your drivers can improve poor habits, including distraction, fatigue, speed, harsh braking, and excessive acceleration. Paired with the Smart Dashcam, a device that sits in the vehicle that captures footage and provides real-time driver feedback, you can better equip your drivers for the road.
You can create customised coaching programs based on real-world performance and identify areas that need improvement. Compare how drivers rank against the rest of the fleet and get the whole team involved in achieving and celebrating safety goals with an interactive coaching program that rewards safe driving.
In times of need, track distress in real time and help guide emergency services or critical response units to the incident, even in remote areas.
- Make informed decisions
Through a fleet management platform like TN360, easy-to-use reporting tools give you insights into operational trends, costs, and expenses and how they impact your bottom line. Plus, you can choose the metrics you want to see to avoid getting in over your head in a pool of data. Furthermore, you can schedule reports to be delivered directly to your inbox and instantly identify inefficiencies that may be costing you time and money.
Enhance data-driven decision-making by considering fuel usage, idle time, and asset utilisation, then capture trends and rectify any issues as soon as they arise. This can all be done in real-time by viewing up-to-the-minute information, along with all the historical data you could need to make the best decisions.
Accurately quote based on your own data to determine the work involved and the journey length. This allows you to provide competitive quotes to secure more work while minimising your risk of overservicing.
Best of all, you can track the exact details and hours of work completed to prove the work was done, ensuring you don’t get customers querying invoices, so you get paid without issue on time.
- Reduce costs, make money
With fleet management software, you can reduce the risk of breakdowns and eliminate costly last-minute trips to the mechanic – without having to search through stacks of paperwork. Instead, you can set up digitised maintenance schedules based on calendar dates or vehicle running hours and receive alerts when a service is due.
The solution also ensures you maximise tax refunds through FTC Manager – this is especially important when working off-road. Work out your fuel tax credits (FTC) claim easily with a tool that does all the calculations for you, using second-by-second GPS location data to calculate off-road travel and auxiliary fuel use to ensure the most accurate rebate possible.
Similarly, Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) must be paid on all work vehicles made available for private use, but it can be difficult to calculate. Our electronic logbooks also have an ATO Class Ruling and allow drivers to identify the purpose of their trip at the start of a journey. It’s automatically loaded into a report and submitted to the ATO with one simple click.
Making money becomes simpler; with real-time analytics and historical information at hand, you can proactively do more with less. This means you don’t need to run around finding information; your admin team can focus on winning new business. You better service your customers, leading to better word of mouth and referrals. The list doesn’t stop there.
- Make greener – and more efficient – choices
Make 2023 the year your business goes paperless and embrace fleet management solutions that automatically sync and store documents. It reduces time-consuming manual processes and the risk of lost or damaged paperwork while making an important step towards more environmentally friendly practices.
Telematics also makes smarter route planning possible, allowing your business to improve efficiency, save time, produce fewer emissions, and use less fuel, creating a better world for us all.
Reduce idle time and monitor fuel rates to ensure your fleet does its part to reduce carbon emissions. You can also set up exclusion zones with geofencing to protect endangered environments from potential distractions.
- Ensure Occupational Health & Safety
Workplace health and safety is not a place for compromise, and the penalties for non-compliance can be severe. However, it can be challenging to monitor the safety of remote employees while they’re on the job.
Don’t wait for an incident or audit before considering your business’s OH&S policies and procedures. With dedicated solutions, support, and customer success specialists, we can work with you to develop an effective safety management system that protects your business and your staff from risk.
- Customisation capabilities
Whatever you need to track, we have a solution to fit your business.
Our team of industry experts will guide you through implementation and the complexities of change management. Whether it’s sector authorities or topic specialists, their expertise is part and parcel of the service we offer at no additional cost.
Because we partner with peak industry groups and government bodies, we understand current challenges and trends impacting the industry and will collaborate to ensure you can access the best tools and data for informed decision making.
Here at Teletrac Navman, we have dealers and installers located all around Australia ready to assist. We’ve been helping customers for over 25 years – and we’re not going anywhere!
Move your service-based business forward
As a service-based business owner or manager, you’ve got a lot to think about, but telematics can make your life a whole lot easier. You can uncover information that would otherwise go unseen to reduce risk, make money, improve efficiency and make better decisions, so you can provide the best possible service and confidently move your business forward.
In just 10 minutes, build a custom solution to see how our in-vehicle technology is designed to meet your needs.