MCH to use GIS to track garbage vans
It’s not my job to poke fun at anyone, least of all a large city in another country, but go listen to the water cooler or break room conversations and see if the subject of India, extreme poverty, lack of education, etc., etc. don’t come up along with the usual complaints about outsourced jobs.
Are all those jobs outsourced because the Indians work for peanuts? Or, is a lot of the outsourcing just because the Indians are diligent in studying what the customer wants and in using the best technology to do the job, and the economy only comes in as an extra benefit?
The article I picked out talks about garbage trucks? Why garbage trucks? Well, when I try to sell GPS tracking units to refuse businesses in the US about 99 out of a hundred don’t even listen … just use the tired old refrain of “we don’t have any money.” Yet, the city of Hyderabad knows that GPS tracking their vehicles will give them a provable return on investment so their investment in their fleet won’t cost them, it will pay them.
Every non-tracked fleet in the US can make GPS pay, often in way under a year. Systems are available with nothing down and with no monthly data costs. So if you operate vehicles as part of your business, ask yourself this? Am I smarter than the fellows who are taking away the jobs, or are they getting the jobs because I’m not clever enough to figure out how I can get a return on investment?