The ROI of GPS … Where are My Miles Going? (Part 3)
How much time and how much fuel am I losing from idling engines? ( 9 March 2006)
Are my drivers speeding and where? (10 March 2006)
(Today’s Topic) Where are my miles going? Am I making full use of expensive assets?
How much is asset abuse really costing my company?
What time are my drivers starting work and what time are they completing their shifts?
How many minutes of pre and post trip time are you paying for?
Are my drivers arriving on time for their deliveries?
Are my drivers making unauthorized stops?
How productive are my assets?
Are my sales representatives making their required customer calls?
Where are my miles going? Am I making full use of expensive assets?
The ROI of GPS … Speeding (Part 2)
How much time and how much fuel am I losing from idling engines?
(Today’s Topic) Are my drivers speeding and where?
Where are my miles going? Am I making full use of expensive assets?
How much is asset abuse really costing my company?
What time are my drivers starting work and what time are they completing their shifts?
How many minutes of pre and post trip time are you paying for?
Are my drivers arriving on time for their deliveries?
Are my drivers making unauthorized stops?
How productive are my assets?
Are my sales representatives making their required customer calls?
Well it’s now time for part 2 of our ten part GPS tracking tutorial. You can read the Introduction here or Part 1 here if you tuned in late. Read more
The ROI of GPS … Idling (Part 1)
Yesterday in my The ROI of GPS … Are you Hesitant to answer these questions? (Intro, Part 0) post, I promised we’d go through the subjects below as a general education in why you really do need GPS tracking for your business.
- (Today’s Topic)How much time and how much fuel am I losing from idling engines?
- Are my drivers speeding and where?
- Where are my miles going? Am I making full use of expensive assets?
- How much is asset abuse really costing my company?
- What time are my drivers starting work and what time are they completing their shifts?
- How many minutes of pre and post trip time are you paying for?
- Are my drivers arriving on time for their deliveries?
- Are my drivers making unauthorized stops?
- How productive are my assets?
- Are my sales representatives making their required customer calls?
You may think this is kind of a low-key way to begin, and perhaps it is … but it’s a big issue in today’s world and it’s one of the few things your cars and trucks are doing that you can really control and get a return on your investment immediately. Read more
The ROI of GPS … Are you Hesitant to Answer These Questions? (Intro, Part 0)
OK, a lot of questions come into me, day after day, that indicate there’s a lot more education needed about the business reasons someone might need to consider GPS tracking, So I’ve decided to take a few days and delve into major reasons why most business owners are leaving money on the table because of what they don’t teach in business school. You can spend a little time figuring out if you’d care to answer these questions about your own business … or if you’d care to know the answers.
Trucking Company Head Held in Overworked Driver’s Fatal Pile-up
Real-Time Asset Tracking Technology Needed to Enhance Security
Filed under: GPS Successes, GPS for Business, GPS for Life
Survey Finds that Hazardous Materials Transporters are Looking for GPS/GSM-Based Tracking Technologies
Millions missing in cigarette trailer heist
Filed under: GPS Help or Hurt, GPS for Business, Uncategorized
- Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant,
But over its terrible edge there had slipped,
A Duke and full many a peasant.
The people said something would have to be done.
But the projects did not at all tally.
Some said “Put a fence round the edge of the cliff”.
Some, “An ambulance down in the valley”.The lament of the crowd was profound and was loud,
As the tears overflowed with their pity,
But the cry for the ambulance carried the day
As it spread through the neighboring city.
A collection was made, to accumulate aid,
and the dwellers in highway and alley.
Gave dollars and cents - not to furnish a fence
But an ambulance down in the valley.
“For the cliff is alright, if you’re careful!”, they said;
“And if folks ever slip and are dropping,
It isn’t the slipping that hurts them so much,
As the shock down below - when they’re stopping”
So for years (we have heard), as these mishaps occurred,
Quick forth would the rescuers sally,
To pick up the victims who fell from the cliff,
with the ambulance down in the valley.
Said one, in a plea, “It’s a marvel to me,
that you all give so much greater attention,
to repairing results than to curing the cause;
You had much better aim at prevention.
For the mischief, of course, should be stopped at its source;
Come, neighbors and friends, let us rally.
It is far better sense, to put up a fence,
than an ambulance down in the valley!”.
“He is wrong in his head!”, the majority said,
“He would end all our earnest endeavor,
He’s a man who would shirk the responsible work
But we will support it forever.
Aren’t we picking up all, just as fast as they fall,
and giving them care liberally?
A superfluous fence, is of no consequence,
if the ambulance works in the valley.”
The story looks queer, as we’ve written it here,
but things oft occur that are stranger,
more humane, we assert, than to succor the hurt,
is the plan of removing the danger.
The best possible course is to safeguard the source
by attending to things rationally.
Yes build up the fence, and let us dispense,
with the ambulance down in the valley…
Well possibly because of the tremendous power we’ve allowed insurance companies to develop in this country and the lack of individual responsibility … “What’s the government going to do about the problem” … prevalent attitude, you’re going to see more and more stories like today’s amazing cigarette theft linked to above.
One and a half-million dollars worth of cigarettes in one trailer. Four trailers, $6.000.000 worth of attractive, very easy to fence product. On the tractors of the tractor trailer rigs, each worth only a small fraction of the value of their cargo the owners had modern GPS tracking devices. But then who would have thought that thieves would actually steal the whole vehicle and drop off the unprotected trailers?
Well, I sure would have, because when I talk to trucking executives it’s absolutely amazing to me how many of them just don’t give a damn about where their trailers are and how their customer’s cargo is protected. Each of the trailers in this case could have had a simple, under $500 GPS tracker that could have lead law enforcement to the unit even before the cargo was spirited off to parts unknown .. $500 to protect $1,500,000 … even Homer could do that math.
Why not? “Oh the cargo’s insured, let the insurance company worry about it.” Well you better believe their worried now, and next time you buy something with the cost of shipping buried in the price … which means next time you buy almost anything, you’ll worry too.
A fence at the top, or an ambulance to pick up the pieces at the bottom?