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How Rental Companies Benefit from GPS Tracker

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All companies with a fleet of vehicles can make full use of GPS tracker for efficient management. Then, what benefits rental companies can get from this tracking device? Keep reading to learn more. Evaluate customer behaviors Reckless driver may cause damage and loss more than profits. Setting speed limits in accordance with road speed data helps you identify those are likely to get over-speed punishment tickets. You have a speed report in hands, why not use it to estimate the potential amercement? For those well-behaved drivers, you may provide some gifts to get repeat customers. Extend your business life cycle The vehicle running condition is one of the decisive factors that influence your business life cycle. A breakdown or downtime may impact your schedule arrangement greatly. Therefore, you have to know when and where to arrange a timely maintenance. Anyway, you don’t want your customer to be trapped in the midst of nowhere unexpectedly. It causes not only unhappy consum...

Staying Alert to Fatigue Driving

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Driver faces a lot of driving environment, external and internal. Unsafe factors easily lead to traffic accidents, such as fatigue driving. To cut down the fatigue driving risk, the drivers should make sure to have enough sleeping time and take a good rest after a long time driving. At the same time, drivers can use some tools to reduce the dangers. Telematics and electronic logging devices (ELDs) can help improve road safety. The connected car is more than tracking location. Telematics solution is able to provide information for pre-route planning for adapting to different driving environments. Also, Fleet telematics and electronic logging devices (ELDs) can record driving habits, which help fleet manager arrange the corresponding route and training solutions for drivers. Another safety benefit from telematics is to keep vehicles in proper conditions. The solution connects to the engine computer help monitor vehicle healthy conditions. It can send out maintenance alerts accor...

GPS Tracker can Improve your Maintenance Planning

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Regular vehicle maintenance is vital for fleet management. Without proper maintenance, your vehicle will be a lot more likely to be prone to more serious problems in the future that could lead to you being greatly out of pocket. With the help of routine maintenance, the driving risk can be greatly cut down and your driving experience can be improved drastically. It is difficult for fleet manager to arrange vehicle maintenance on regular basis. However, fleet manager earns money from every minute vehicle running on the road. Then, how to optimize routine maintenance. Here come some tips.  Set up a maintenance team  It is quite common that vehicle drivers think they are only responsible for driving and maintenance is none of their business. In this condition, fleet manager should enhance their maintenance awareness. However, if you have a large fleet, you could set up a maintenance team. The cost of hiring responsible maintenance team is lower than that of sending to mai...

Running Fleet Management Software with Concox

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Fleet management software is of importance in the auto industry, which helps save money and time for many companies. However, there are plenty of improvements that can be made to better suit fleet businesses. That’s what Concox will discuss here—ways that fleet management software is making great strides by innovative and stable technology and ideological advancements, allowing for both fleets and businesses to grow in tandem.  Predictive Maintenance  With the popular spread of IoT sensors and equipment, predictive maintenance is one of the hottest topics in the IoT industry. Equipped with onboard sensors and Can-Bus,fleet manager can predict when to maintenance by collecting data and then schedule downtime to get maintenance, avoiding the unnecessary stop due to sudden breakdown. What’s more, the life-cycles of both vehicles and technological systems could be extended significantly through strategically scheduled downtime. The cost of maintenance and replacement of eq...