WILLIAM MARSDEN, The Gazette

Published: Saturday, February 25, 2006

So do run a city, county or state organization that spends taxpayer dollars?  Are you proud of the way you’re managing?  I hope so.  Here’s some folks who MBN .. Manage By Newspaper .. and I’ll bet a dollar to a doughnut that their elected officials and the citizens aren’t very pleased with them.

It’s too bad it tool a newspaper expose’ to bring this to light.  The city could have invested in a few hundred dollars per truck and saved the hassle of embarrassment as well as made back the cost of their investment easily.

Note that just a two day effort resulted in many employee days without pay, even though they are in a union environment and thus could rightly say it’s a little harder to make workers toe the mark.  But if you want to turn in the kind of job that you get paid for, and if you want a tool to help you meet your goals, you need look no farther than GPS tracking for your vehicles.

Labor:  Every single one of my clients have found notable labor savings … commercial and government.  You really just can’t manage what you can’t measure.

Fuel: Every single one of my clients has found fuel wasting, ranging from unjustified idling to driving 70 or 80 miles per hour on residential streets.

Efficiency: Every single one of my clients has found that people don’t go to jobs the way they are expected to, or in some cases that expensive routing programs that don’t give feedback as to what vehicles are doing are useless, even wasteful in themselves.

Any of these three key points as well a many others can easily pay back the cost of GPS tracking in a year or less .. and then save more, year after year.  Soem systems don’t eve have a monthly cost.  So, what are you waiting for?  Management by your local Newspaper?