Wonder Where The US GPS ROI Successes Are?
I write often about GPS ROI success stories … they aren’t hard to find, just set a Google News Alert for those keywords and you’ll get reports almost every day. Here’s another one, which once again points up my oft-made point that virtually any business or government agency will save, and save big … especially in productivity and reduction in overtime:
“We knew there was additional overtime being booked and that vehicles were being used for private mileage, which concerned us greatly as we couldn’t actually prove it. … we also saw some inefficiencies in the way our van fleet operated – an aspect that would have been impossible to see if not for the clarity of the vehicle tracking system…. “The Remote Asset Management vehicle tracking system is a common sense business tool that is saving us lots of money. It’s safe to say that it pays for itself many times over,”… Read the full release here:
My question for the day is … why do I continually read these reports from companies and agencies overseas and so seldom see similar reports from US entities? You know what shows up day after day in these alerts from the US? Using GPS on the golf course, either with handheld golfing aids or as course management tools on golf carts.
There’s nothing wrong with golf … and you certainly can get an a ROI from tracking golf carts. But there is so much more that could be done and I see so little of it. Do my fellow American businessmen just enjoy wasting $3 a gallon fuel? Do they just consider wasted employee hours as an unavoidable cost of doing business. Do they consider it an acceptable risk to let 90+% of our school children in buses travel unsupervised?
The answer, folks, is not money. If you integrate GPS tracking into your operations you will earn back the investment in less than a year and you’ll reap benefit after benefit in years to come. So what is the reason so many of you won’t position yourself for extra profit?
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