The holiday season means more demand, tighter schedules, and, like always…higher costs. For small and mid-sized businesses, unexpected spikes in fuel prices or inefficient driving habits can quickly eat into profits. The time to lock in your savings is now, before the holiday season even begins.
At ClearPathGPS, we help by focusing on the two biggest controllable factors in your budget: driver behavior and route efficiency. By using GPS data, you can start preventing fuel waste today, so you can enjoy profits all the way into the new year.
Aggressive driving is often the single greatest source of unnecessary fuel expense. Excessive speeding, hard acceleration, and prolonged idling all create costs. Not only do they increase accident risk, but they also use more gas and create more problems for vehicles.
ClearPathGPS provides the precise data needed to identify and correct these habits. Our system automatically tracks behaviors and generates reports, like Driver Behavior Reports. These reports highlight drivers who need coaching on specific metrics, like hard braking events or engine idle time, allowing you to provide helpful feedback rather than just generic warnings.
This way, your fleet manager is a coach, not a cop. Incentive programs, like where you reward drivers with the least amount of idle time each week, help encourage better driving. What does that do for your business? It translates into less fuel use and less wear and tear costs as you head into a busy quarter.
During the holidays, your field team will likely deal with more traffic and last-minute job changes. Relying on outdated routing practices means wasted miles and lost time.
ClearPathGPS gives you the real-time visibility and historical data to make sure every trip is as efficient as possible. By monitoring the actual roads taken, you can spot and eliminate unnecessary detours and use real-time traffic info to guide drivers to their destinations faster.
ClearPathGPS data even integrates with popular routing platforms. Shaving even a few miles off every route adds up to significant savings when multiplied across your entire fleet. See how ClearPathGPS can help fleet performance.
For example, Trim All Lawn Service cares for the properties of hundreds of commercial and residential customers in Florida and Georgia.
“The money ClearPathGPS helped us save in just the first year or so paid for our ClearPathGPS service for the next 20 years,” said Schuyler Bell, their operations manager.
He continued, “Because this solution lets us track and coordinate our crews so well, we were able to disband an entire crew and place all of those guys onto different crews. We were able to eliminate an entire truck’s route, which averaged 110 or 120 gallons per week (in fuel for the vehicle plus mowers and other equipment). The fuel costs we saved from this one move resulted in huge savings. And we still had the same productivity.”
Excessive idling is another cost that ClearPathGPS can help cut down, which is an area that can really make a difference. For instance, a heavy-duty commercial truck burns about a gallon an hour. Two hours of idling a day, assuming $3.75-per-gallon cost of diesel fuel, can cost a business more than $1,950 per year (assuming 260 word days) for each of its trucks. For a 25-truck fleet, that would be nearly $50,000 - just in needless fuel costs for idling trucks.
But – if a fleet manager ran ClearPathGPS reports like on excessive idling every Monday morning, he could coach any driver logging more than 30 minutes of daily idle time, and the company could reward the three lowest-idling drivers. The savings would easily offset the initial cost of the GPS service and funding their driver rewards.
Get started now, before the season is here. By using driver behavior monitoring and routing intelligence of ClearPathGPS, you help your team to be more efficient – plus directly contribute to your profit margins before the holiday rush.
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