7 Day Safe Driving Challenge
If you attended AFLA's Annual Conference in Las Vegas this September, you remember Mike Pitcher's presentation, How to Save a Life. During his presentation, Mike challenged all conference attendees to go 7 days without using their cell phones while driving.
Now, AFLA and LeasePlan are challenging everyone to put down their phones for 7 days!
Visit afla.org to see Mike issue you the challenge and sign up to participate today! Don't forget to invite your friends, family and colleagues to join you in being a safer driver. Together, we can save a life!
Once you've signed up to take the challenge, join in the AFLA Member Online Community to continue the discussion.
Protect Your Construction Fleet Against Theft with GPS Tracking
According to a recent article from Construction Equipment Magazine, the National Insurance Crime Bureau stated that equipment theft for the construction industry nears $1 billion lost annually, nationwide. Equipment and asset theft can make an extreme impact to a construction business’s bottom line, as equipment replacement can be incredibly expensive. So before it’s too late and your vehicles and equipment are being stripped for parts, it may be a good time to look into GPS tracking. Know where your fleet is at all times and have the insight needed to recover stolen property quickly.
For the construction industry, 41% of theft occurs for light duty vehicles, work trucks, and trailers.
Other assets that are frequently targeted include:
• Backhoe Loaders/Wheel Loaders
• Air Compressors
• Generators
• Welders
• Light Towers
To prevent taking a loss on any type of vehicle or asset, equip your fleet with GPS tracking devices. Once they are installed, make sure you set up the correct alerts so you are ready to respond if you do experience a theft.
The Customer Experience Begins Well Before the Transaction
The Fleet Customer Experience Revolution
By Jeofrey Bean
A customer’s experience with your company usually begins well before there is a transaction. Leverage this as you prepare the customer experience that is directly with your company. And influence the influencers of your customers such as reviewers, social media readers, writers, and advocates. By doing this purposely you use to your advantage the increasing amount of time potential customers are putting into accessing decision making information before there is a transaction.
You’ll have a big advantage over the majority of companies waiting for a transaction before engaging customers.
3 Most Common Misconceptions about Installing GPS Tracking Devices
You have decided that using GPS to track your trucks will be valuable for your business – now it is time to install GPS tracking devices to start monitoring fleet activity. It may be tempting to let your in-house mechanic set up your devices to try and pinch pennies, but what you may not realize is that […]
Dispatch Routes to Your Drivers’ Smart Devices
GPS Insight has developed a new dispatching capability for small and mid-sized fleets that sends routes to the driver’s smart device. Customers can now use GPS Insight to dispatch stops and/or routes via email or text message to each driver on a daily basis.
There are 2 advantages to this.
1. For those customers that want to forego the additional cost of Garmin integration, but need to efficiently dispatch drivers, they can still do so.
2. Drivers can now leverage audible turn-by-turn directions used by the mapping Apps on the smart devices (Apple or Google) and do not need to be logged in to another telematics app to be dispatched throughout the day.
Check out how it works: Dispatch Routes to Your Drivers’ Smart Devices!
