GPS Tracking ROI

So many of my searches here center around phrases like “how to defeat GPS”, “is it legal to track employees”, “hiding from GPS’ and similar.

In general it is always legal for an employer … private or government … to track their employees.  It’s also something that makes sense in the cosmic sense, because they are paying the freight, aren’t they?

If you are hardcore, I want to get paid for nothing and I don’t want to hear how my boss might have my interest in mind, then I suggest you just move on to some other site you like better … because I’m not going to give much data you’ll really like.

But, if you’re among the 90-plus percent of employees who want to do a decent job … and are interested in how to make more money … read on.  here are a few reasons GPS tracking may not be such a fearsome or annoying thing for you.

• Limit your own liability:  Many people don’t focus on this issue much … until they have a wreck … even if you have the best boss in the world, who supports you 100% of the time you can still wind up in a world of hurt … perhaps by no fault of your own … and GPS Tracking equipment on your vehicle may just save your bacon.
• Performance verification: Are you the best driver in your group?  Can you get your route done faster than any other driver and never break a rule doing it?  GPS Tracking verify’s good performance along with the bad, you know.  Drive a school bus and tired of complaints that come into dispatch about you “speeding through the neighborhood” when you know darn well you’re not?  Tracking equipment is the answer.
• Re-routing without hassle:  Yep, none of us likes change very much.  But it certainly happens.  And a business that wants to excel has to be able to manage change better than their competition.  Who decided how to re-route drivers during the work day?  A dispatcher who doesn’t even drive?  The boss while he’s juggling dozens of other things?  The drivers themselves, raising your blood pressure with those annoying “my way is better than your way” arguments?  Here’s a real-world example of how GPS tracking can make those changes in your workday a lot less stressful … and earn the boss some more profit too.
• Service Improvements: Does your job depend upon the service you deliver?  You better believe it does! And don’t slip this bullet if you work for a government agency … service means just as much to you.  Contracting out is one of the most popular cost-reduction schemes in government today … deliver service as if the taxpayer has no choice and you are likely to find they do … and the replacement choice likely won’t include you.  How much better would your job be if there was never a question about you arriving late, skipping a stop, even arguing if you came to the wrong gate of a facility?  With decent GPS tracking equipment riding along with you there will never be a question about how well you performed … it’s like having the shop steward riding with you as a witness, except that everyone will believe the GPS.
• Incentive Pay: Do you get paid a flat rate?  If so, why?  Shouldn’t you get paid by performance?  in many cases bosses want to use performance pay schemes but the reliable data to set up such plans isn’t available.  With GPS tracking it will be.  Average time at customers, customer’s served per day (here’s an important one) ton-miles in bulk delivery … the lest goes on.  Get paid for what you do, not what people think you do.
• Paperwork: I’ll close with my favorite benefit item.  I have been a technician doing technical work for years and I have supervised and also contracted-out technical work for years.  I can state without hesitation that the better the technician the more s/he dislikes the pencil.  Those who fill out logs, delivery records, lessons learned forms and the myriad other pieces of paper a job entails with a smile on their face?  Excellent chance that they are the ones who can’t fix squat.  Why not lest a proper GPS/Fleet management system reduce or even eliminate the administrivia that gets in the way of you doing your job?

Converted yet?  No, didn’t think so.  Preacher is not one of the jobs I aspire to.  But perhaps these paragraphs will give you some thoughts about making the best of what seems a bad thing and give you a little insight into getting more satisfaction out of your job … and even making an extra buck or two.

And if you still insist on defeating GPS … try a tinfoil hat.  (over the GPS antenna, of course, you didn’t think I meant on your head, did you”