Archive for: January 2009

I regularly read the search words and phrases that readers use to find the GPS Tracking ROI blog.  The title of this post is a very common one.  It’s also the kind of question that is very easy to answer.  …

Even in the worst economic crisis in 50 years, the only way the manufacturer can think of to market this nicely done GPS?GSM/GPRS phone is to use it to store vacation pictures.  Bread and circuses.

How about property appraisers, repo agents, real estate brokers, apartment finders, mortgage appraisers, filed supervisors and everyone else who still has a job trying to work our way out of the recession.  A worthy tool, me thinks:

GPS Tracking Business

My anti-GPS privacy advocate readers will undoubtedly get all worked up over this one.  A few jealous boyfriends or unsure fathers and husbands may start thinking about buying Christmas gifts from the manufacture, and some may not be …

Free money.  If you service or repair at customer locations this could very well be free or found money.

Are You Late in Completing Service Work-Orders?

A recent Aberdeen survey revealed …

Proof that there is money in service and GPS tracking can bring it to the bottom line.

OK, Quick, don;t look up at the top of the page … what’s the title of this blog?  GPS ROI, right?  I’ve written a lot of times how much money you can bring to the bottom line by treating your necessary service work not as an ‘evil" that must be minimized but as a bona fide business asset that can give you a real rate of return (ROI) on your investment.  here’s a nice piece from a major UK company who has found their profit proof:

Masternaut has won a five year GBP 1million contract with Barloworld Handling to provide web-based vehicle tracking for 550 service vehicles. Barloworld is the largest independent distributor of fork lift trucks in the world and manages a fleet of over 30,000 fork lifts for customers in the UK alone. With fork lifts critical to many manufacturing, warehousing and other industrial operations, the company offers round-the-clock maintenance services through 23 regional support centres.
Masternaut is being fitted to Barloworld’s entire UK service fleet in order to boost customer service and improve efficiency. With live tracking over the web, despatchers are able to immediately assign the nearest engineer according to skills required and improve planning so that routes and schedules are optimised. Full Lift Truck Service Profit article here.

I have to admit I was a little mystified by the headline on this one.  I don’t think the contract is about installing GPS tracking on 30,000 lift trucks (forklifts), I think it is about the efficiencies and thus profits gained by Barloworld handling equipping their 500-odd field service engineers with GPS tracking on the service vehicles.  Savings?  You betcha:

As my old friend Colonel John ‘Hannibal’ Smith was famous for saying, “I love it when a plan comes together.”  This morning I spent a lot of time exploring the site of a company that basically does it all for …

How are those for items of interest in your business?  Are you getting enough of any of them to suit you?  here’s an interesting article from one of my former competitors that might be of interest to any businessman or …

These guys should have just ordered a radius map from Air Miles map to find out how far these places were from schools and parks before they spent state money illegally.

By John Simerman …

I make it a practice never to delve very much into politics here on retired Pay the blog primarily for Seniors and Retirees Making Money Online.  And I am not going to break that rule today.  But I am going to give a brief shoutout to something that always seems to be very political in nature, America’s labor unions.

Some of you out there are currently union members or retired on union-backed pensions so I don’t need to fear too many brickbats from your direction.

Others are like me, I was only a union member for a short time in one job that I held and have not had too much dealings with unions, pro or con during my career.

Others are rabid anti-union advocates, blaming all manner of ills from the Wall Street business failures to the exporting of jobs overseas to the Civil War on trade unions.

Well this isn’t an open call for a debate, I’m not going to change anyone’s views in one blog post, surely, and I wouldn’t want to anyway.

But I will say that I recognize how many of the benefits I enjoyed while I was working and those that I continue to enjoy now as the fruits of the labor movement.  Even those of you in non-union jobs should give a moment to contemplate where your work hours, your annual paid vacations, merit promotion systems, maternity leave, EEOC office and so many other benefits we take for granted as Americans came from.  They were all founded in the work, dedication and sacrifice of union members and they have now become so much the norm that few even realize that fact.

Yet another GPS Tracking activity that has an ROI for the people who are helped, but doubtful some others will see the GPS advantage.

Here’s another thing the anti-GPS rights demanders can use in their fight …