Kevin Aries

Kevin Aries

Kevin Aries

Kevin Aries leads Global Product Success for Verizon Connect, helping build software solutions that optimize the way people, vehicles and things move through the world. Working predominantly with field service businesses, Kevin spends his time understanding the problems and solutions of the service industry to improve customer experience.

Recent articles
6 Benefits of Telematics for Public Fleets
6 Benefits of Telematics for Public Fleets

From finding fleet funding and streamlining fuel costs to grappling with vehicle utilization and maintenance, public fleets are often for...

Business management

Key to Sustainability and Growth: Your Back Office
Key to Sustainability and Growth: Your Back Office

We’re offering a few suggestions on how using telematics in your home office can help cut costs, while promoting growth and sustainabil...

Business management

Your 2019 Resolution: A Data-Driven Fleet
Your 2019 Resolution: A Data-Driven Fleet

Explore how the right fleet management software provides reports that can help translate mountains of data into truly actionable insights...

Business management

Your 2019 Resolution: A Data-Driven Fleet
Your 2019 Resolution: A Data-Driven Fleet

Explore how the right fleet management software provides reports that can help translate mountains of data into truly actionable insights...

Your 2019 Resolution: A Data-Driven Fleet

Explore how the right fleet management software provides reports that can help translate mountains of data into truly actionable insights to drive improvement in your organizati...

Business management

Crack the Code to Reducing Your Expenses

Visibility and understanding of your operational costs, inefficiencies and other areas for improvement, including safe driving behavior a...

Business management

How Tech Can Empower Next-Gen Police Fleets

Technology and data play an important role in both modernizing police fleets and helping keep officers (and citizens) safer.

Business management

Evaluate Your Year with These Key Fleet Metrics

Evaluate your year in field service with these key metrics from your telematics solution to help you optimize operations for increased pr...

Business management

Get Your Assets Under Control in 2019

In this post, we outline how you can set your business up for success through asset tracking to optimize utilization in the coming year.

Vehicle & equipment management

A Look Back at Trucking Fleet Trends in 2018

Let's take a look back at the challenges and opportunities that trucking companies have faced and examine how telematics technology can h...

Business management

International Tariffs and the Supply Chain Industry

Let’s take a look at what the international tariffs are, what they mean for the commercial trucking industry, what’s on the horizon and h...

Business management

Leveraging Tech for a Safer Landscaping Fleet

The latest GPS fleet tracking solutions can help today’s landscapers enhance fleet safety and achieve a more productive workforce while s...

Safety & security

How Private Fleets Benefit From New Tax Law

Employers are rethinking how to best balance their own expenses with the reimbursements lost by their employees since the car tax deducti...

Business management

3 Signs of a Mediocre Fleet

Whether you work in HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, as an electrician or in another service-based field, if you truly want your business to ...

Business management

5 Things High-Profit Landscapers Always Do

Over the past 30 years, we at the Harvest Group have learned a lot about how to grow profits in landscaping. One of the clearest things w...

Business management

Reducing Risk Can Increase Your Returns

If you’re in the construction industry you know that risk comes with the territory. Even if you have the best insurance coverage on the m...

Business management

Florist, Nursery, Landscape: Prep for Peak Season

Peak season for florist, nursery, and landscape companies is approaching and with heightened competition, local businesses must find the ...

Business management

Transport Companies Differentiate with Technology

Luxury coach and transport businesses can see enhanced efficiency, customer satisfaction and driver safety with GPS tracking technology.

Business management

What You Should Know About Rising Fuel Prices

Gas prices are already on the rise across the country in the first few weeks of 2018, and it's unknown how high they'll reach. For carri...

Business management

Data Privacy Day: Focus for Fleet Managers

In a world where we’re more connected than ever in our private as well as professional lives, phrases like “Big Data” and “data privacy”...

Safety & security

Track Driving Behavior Without Riding Shotgun

Are your drivers engaging in risky driving behavior? Learn how to track your business fleet’s driving behavior with GPS vehicle tracking.

Team management

Scheduling Snafus: Avoiding the Domino Effect

GPS vehicle tracking eliminates scheduling and dispatch problems, such as helping you understand how long each jobs take so dispatching t...

Business management

Don’t Be Fuelish: Manage the Impact of Fuel Costs

There are a lot of ways your drivers can waste fuel. Read this to learn the many ways that gps vehicle tracking can help save company fuel.

Business management

Ease Payroll Pains: Overtime and Timesheet Fraud

Curious how to catch overtime payroll fraud? Do you have a way to track and manage OT, and ensure timesheets are right and OT numbers are...

Business management

Billing and Invoicing Made Easier and Faster

It’s tough to ensure everyone and everything gets paid on time, from employees to utilities to rent? Here are the best ways to manage bil...

Business management

Workforce Management for the Digital Age

Erase that whiteboard and learn more about how the Work platform can help your business run smoother. See how we can Make Scheduling and ...

Business management

What Is a Connected Vehicle?

As the IoT revolution gains momentum, one phrase you’re likely to hear more often is ‘connected vehicle’.What is a connected vehicle, how...

Business management

How GPS Truck Tracking Benefits Business

From reducing costs to improving productivity and driver safety, here's how to win with GPS truck tracking

Business management

Optimize Operations with Workforce Management

Employees are our biggest expenditure, why not ensure they are operating at the most efficient level possible? One benefit of a workforce...

Business management

How to Take Advantage of Telematics for Your Fleet

Telematics might be one of those industry buzzwords that many people use, but few know what it means. Telematics is actually the converge...

Business management

Monitoring More Than Just Vehicles with GPS Asset Tracking

GPS tracking is an indispensable fleet management solution that can help to boost efficiency and improve fleet safety. However, the resou...

Business management

Improved Fleet Management With Telematics Reports

Fleet managers have a lot on their plate and, as a result, often lack the time and resources necessary to monitor their vehicles and driv...

Business management

The Right Fleet Management Fit for Your Fleet

No matter the size of your company and the number of vehicles in its fleet, your fleet operation can benefit from using innovative G...

Vehicle & equipment management

Geofencing: Reduce Cost and Simplify Fleet Service

Learn these Key Details About How Geofencing Can Streamline Productivity & Reduce Costs. Not Sure What a GPS Geofence is, Click to Learn ...

Business management

How Do Construction Companies Use GPS Tracking?

When we think of GPS, we generally think of portable devices found on the dashboard of a vehicle, guiding the driver with turn-by-turn di...

Business management

Why Monitor Harsh Braking and Acceleration?

Should you be monitoring hard braking and acceleration as part of your fleet’s safety program? What actions does your safety manage...

Business management

What Is Telematics?

The word “telematics” stems from the combination of telecommunications and informatics, and it was the joining of these two s...

Business management

4 Ways Customer Feedback Can Improve Your Business

See four ways you can use customer feedback to improve your business. Verizon Connect offers several tips to help your business measure c...

Business management

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