Resources tagged productivity & efficiency

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

City of San Jose Closer to Becoming a Smart City
City of San Jose Closer to Becoming a Smart City

The City of San Jose needed a software platform to improve dispatching, allow officers to easily find an available car and track needed s...

Case study 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

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...

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 sustainability to produce better business outcomes ...

Business management

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

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

Prepare for the Season of Greater Driving Hazards

As colder months and harsh weather creep in and traffic increases due to holiday travel, it’s the perfect time to prepare your fleet driv...

Safety & security

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

ELD Short-Haul Exemptions: What You Need to Know

In this post, we’ll dive into what qualifies for a short-haul ELD mandate exemption, and what short-haul fleets should consider in decidi...

Compliance

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

Government Fleets Must Prepare for a Digital Future

The right fleet management technology can help government fleets of any size rise to these challenges and also help them prepare for futu...

Business management

Field Service Management Buyer’s Guide

Software can be complex, but the buying process doesn’t have to be. Get our checklists, tips and steps to researching and purchasing the ...

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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

Smooth Implementation Part 2: Make It Pain-Free

These five steps will help you manage a smooth transition into a system that affects everyone in your business, including your customers,...

Business management

Evergreen Future of Mobile Workforce Management

GPS fleet tracking solutions have grown to be an integral mobile tool and distinct competitive advantage for managers of fleets of all si...

Business management

6 Ways to a Safer Fleet

Every fleet wants to be safer, but what does that mean for your daily habits? How do you implement changes with drivers to encourage bett...

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How Government Fleets use Telematics to Help Reduce Costs

Lowering operational costs and improving efficiency are two top priorities of government fleets.

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How to Drive New Growth with Your Existing Fleet

Before you invest money in additional equipment or staffing, it’s imperative you explore ways to first improve business efficiency withou...

Business management

9 Mistakes to Avoid in Telematics Implementation

Understanding and mapping out how your team is going to use this new technology, researching options on the market, making a purchase dec...

Business management

Fleet Connections Report: The Data-Driven Fleet

In the new edition of Fleet Connections, our analysis of report utilization by 720 fleets comprising 27,347 vehicles in the United States...

Business management

Fleet Connections 2018: The Data-Driven Fleet

How does your company compare to others when it comes to its use of fleet technology? How might your company take advantage of fleet data...

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3 Routes to Fleet Manager Failure

Though the core duties of a fleet manager range from vehicle maintenance and driver safety to overall organizational compliance, with so ...

Business management

Signs You’re Ready to Implement Telematics

GPS fleet tracking can provide the data-based insight into your operations that helps you make educated business decisions as you reach f...

Business management

Achieve More: Invest in Asset Tracking Technology

The ability to track asset-specific metrics is crucial to productivity, efficiency and cost control. An integrated asset tracking solutio...

Vehicle & equipment management

5 Steps to a Better ROI on Fleet Assets

Fleet vehicles and high-value equipment are a big investment and a significant day-to-day cost for your organization. Make sure you’re ru...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

Smooth Implementation Part 1: The Right Solution

A smooth implementation is key to seeing that ROI quickly. Here are five things you want to do before signing that contract with GPS fle...

Business management

Leading the Way in Fleet Management

Berg Insight names Verizon Connect as the clear leader in the fleet telematics space both from a global perspective and in the Americas s...

Business management

3 Signs That Your Vehicle Needs a Sick Day

Staying on top of vehicle care can be hard if you don’t know how to recognize the signs of a problem. Here are 3 ways to tell if a vehicl...

Vehicle & equipment management

10 Steps to a Seamless Telematics Implementation

There is a best way to choose and deploy fleet management software that minimizes disruption to your business and sets you up on the fast...

Ebook Business management

Doing More with Less

As your business grows you might think the only way to meet the increased demand is buy more trucks and hire more drivers but there’s ano...

Ebook Business management

Meeting the Needs of Construction Fleets

Comprehensive fleet management software can help construction businesses improve utilization and improve business outcomes. This free eBo...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

2018 Buyer's Guide: Asset Tracking Solutions

Tracking assets isn’t just knowing where they are located—it’s also critical to have metrics on productivity and efficiency to help contr...

Ebook Vehicle & equipment management

Technology Innovation Driving Fleet Modernization

businesses that use data in an actionable way will be the survivors and those who ignore industry progress through technological integrat...

Business management

[Webinar] Recap: Orchestrating the Supply Chain

Transport Topics hosted a webinar led by Senior Features Writer Daniel Bearth and Associate News Editor Dan Ronan, with a candid convers...

Business management

5 Signs You're Ready for Telematics

You’ve looked into GPS fleet tracking, and you’re on the fence for one reason or another. You’re not sure your business is large enough t...

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2018 Buyer's Guide: Fleet Management and Asset Tracking Solutions f...

Technology can help improve business outcomes and mitigate challenges in construction by addressing the needs of your fleet, drivers and ...

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Building the Case for Construction Asset Tracking

Construction companies, equipment leasing firms and equipment manufacturers can also benefit from installing GPS devices on non-powered a...

Vehicle & equipment management

What Fleet Managers (Really) Do

No matter the number and variety of vans and trucks your business owns, someone manages your fleet of vehicles and your drivers. You migh...

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Solving Common Trucking & Distribution Business Problems

Some of the best business lessons come from seeing how companies like yours handle the same challenges you face every day. Download this ...

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Landscaping Contractors’ Greatest Challenges

Landscaping contractors face many challenges but I believe the three major ones are, recruiting quality employees, retaining those employ...

Business management

How Technology Transforms Supply Chain Trucking

Fleet management software is playing a critical role in the key goals of streamlining operations and optimizing productivity in the suppl...

Business management

Solving Common Fleet Business Problems

Some of the best business lessons come from seeing how companies like yours handle the same challenges you face every day. Learn how 4 bu...

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Moving From Reactive to Proactive with IoT

Technology continues to break down geographic barriers, making it easier for businesses of all sizes to participate in the global marketp...

Business management

Solving Common Construction Problems

Some of the best business lessons come from seeing how companies like yours handle the same challenges you face every day. Learn how 4 bu...

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Solving Common Service Problems

Some of the best business lessons come from seeing how companies like yours handle the same challenges you face every day. Learn how 4 bu...

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Autonomy, Electric Vehicles and the Sharing Economy

In the coming years, 5G technology will become essential to the advancement of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2...

Business management

Government Fleet Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Government fleets face many of the same challenges and concerns other fleets encounter; and conversely, government fleets can benefit in ...

Business management

5 Big Construction Industry Trends

Tracking of heavy equipment is helping project managers meet tight deadlines and tough performance metrics, while getting a better return...

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6 Benefits of GPS Fleet Tracking in Landscaping

Give yourself peace of mind and the edge you need to grow your landscaping business with GPS fleet tracking.

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8 Benefits of GPS Fleet Tracking in Construction

Give yourself peace of mind and the edge you need to grow your construction business with GPS fleet tracking.

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Why It's Critical to Stay on Top of Fleet Technology Trends

Small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as enterprise-level fleets, must look toward the future if they want to be prepared to keep u...

Business management

What 5G Can Do for Your Mobile Business

Enhanced 5G connectivity is going to be a major factor in the ongoing benefits that businesses can see from data – including improved spe...

Business management

Navigating the Hyperconnected Vehicle of the Future

Digital technology has been reshaping the business landscape for decades, creating new business models, improving productivity, and revol...

Business management

The Trends Transforming On-the-Go Business

How to position your business for success in a connected, mobile, data-based world.

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Portable toilets come with supreme dependability

There’s no denying that The Throne Depot has embraced toilet humor, and it seems to be working for them. They affectionately refer to the...

Case study Business management

TSI: Is Doing Good Good for the Bottom Line?

Telematics software offers two key ways—safety and compliance—oil and gas businesses in particular can demonstrate a positive impact.

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

Ask the Expert: Service and Support

Verizon Connect discusses service and support to help customers maximize ROI on fleet or field service management.

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

Tales from the Road: Productivity

In this edition of our Tales From The Road series, learn how Work can help to increase fleet productivity. With our scheduling and dispa...

Compliance

Bill Howe Plumbing reduces annual accidents by 87%

Bill Howe Companies (plumbing, HVAC and flooding and restoration services) improved safety scores and productivity with GPS fleet trackin...

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5 Ways to Optimize Your Fleet

These 5 tips can help you optimize your fleet to maximize revenue growth and reduce operational expenses, putting and keeping more money ...

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6 Benefits of GPS Fleet Tracking for Professional Contractors

Learn what unique benefits professional contractors can experience with GPS tracking to take your business forward and ahead of the compe...

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Improved Productivity & Payroll with GPS Fleet Tracking

Even the slightest improvements in day-to-day productivity can translate to meaningful gains for your entire business.

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What Is Telematics?

Telematics is the technology of sending, receiving and storing information related to remote objects, such as vehicles, via telecommunica...

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9 Secrets to Reducing Operating Expenses

Hidden and preventable expenses may be hurting your bottom line. We can help you reduce costs of operating your business with these 9 sec...

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Life After the ELD Mandate

If you’re still hoping the ELD mandate will be delayed or overturned, then American Trucking Association (ATA) President and CEO Chris Sp...

Compliance

Landscapers Tackle Their Challenges on the Turnaround Tour

During the recent National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) LANDSCAPES 2017 conference and GIE+EXPO, attendees were treated ...

Business management

Winning with ELD: Going Beyond Compliance

If the attendance at our recent ELD-focused webinars is any indication, many of you are still in investigation phase of finding the right...

Compliance

Outdoor advertising company increases productivity and cuts fuel co...

Learn How One Outdoor Advertising Fleet Has Used GPS Tracking to Improve Efficiency For Their Transit Advertising Fleet. Get Details and ...

Case study Business management

National HME switches to Verizon Connect for price, product functio...

National HME Switches to Verizon Connect for Price, Product Functionality and Customer Service

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Leading Medical Device Manufacturer Benefits from Fleet Software

Download this Medical Imaging Company's Fleet Telematics Case Study and Read How This Leading Medical Device Manufacturer Benefits from F...

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Fettes, Love & Sieben has streamlined operational procedures and sa...

Increased RevenueFettes, Love & Sieben is a plumbing and heating contractor located in Chicago, Illinois and employs approximately sixty-...

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Dallas Plumbing Company Slashes Costs by Switching to Verizon Conne...

Dallas Plumbing uses GPS fleet tracking from Verizon Connect to lower costs, increase efficiency, and grow in the competitive Air Conditi...

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Fleet Tracking Keeps Drivers Safe and Helps Deliver More Packages O...

Delivery truck tracking helps DR Sherry save on fuel & increase the number of deliveries trucks can make per day. GPS has helped their tr...

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Di-Tech International uses Verizon Connect GPS fleet tracking to im...

Di-Tech International decided they needed to better service clients through improved dispatching and routing efficiencies.

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Rohrer's one hour HVAC gains control and reduces insurance costs us...

Rohrer’s One Hour HVAC installed GPS tracking to help insurance rates. Now they have saved on rates, improved driver behavior and payroll...

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One Hour Heating uses GPS fleet tracking to serve more customers

Verizon Connect Customer One Hour Heating Uses GPS Tracking and improves use of time and driver behavior. The company saved $750 per wee...

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Verizon Connect GPS Fleet Tracking Helps Concrete Coring Company Be...

Concrete Coring Company needed a way to reduce costs during the economic recession

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Tree-care company cuts fuel costs by $2,000 a month with GPS fleet ...

GPS Fleet Management helps Tree Tech Inc. with fuel costs.

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J. Carey Logging improves their DOT safety scores with Verizon Connect

J. Carey Logging implement Vehicle Tracking from Verizon Connect, saving in fuel and reducing idling. Read more about their story and le...

Case study Business management

DiPinto Brothers Transportation slashes payroll costs with GPS flee...

By improving its ability to plan routes, keep track of vehicle activity and better respond to customer demands, DiPinto Brothers has save...

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Kimball Construction credits customer service for effectiveness of ...

Kimball Construction benefits from GPS vehicle tracking with better customer service. Learn how Verizon Connect helped the company reduc...

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Robbins Towing keeps better track of their trucks with GPS fleet tr...

Robbins Towing implemented GPS vehicle tracking after having a call about an employee's odd location. With Verizon Connect, they keep bet...

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B C S Fence Builds Customer Service Reputation with GPS Fleet Tracking

BCS Fences Improves Customer Service with GPS from Verizon Connect. The company relies on customer referrals to grow business, learn how ...

Case study Business management

Verizon Connect helps Paul Davis Restoration cut wasteful spending

After installing GPS fleet tracking software, Paul Davis Restoration experienced many benefits including payroll savings and insurance pr...

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Papalia Plumbing and Heating renews their contract with Verizon Con...

To maintain a high level of customer satisfaction, Papalia Plumbing & Heating implemented the Verizon Connect GPS fleet tracking system. ...

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Deep South Equipment Makes Seamless Switch to Verizon Connect Reveal

Deep South Equipment installed GPS tracking on their industrial equipment fleet and reported an easy switch and enhanced capabilities wit...

Case study Business management

Larry's Limousine stays on the road with help from Verizon Connect

Larry’s Limo Helped by GPS Tracking Solution from Verizon Connect and have stayed continually informed of their drivers’ locations. Read ...

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Capital Crane gets support and savings from Verizon Connect Reveal

Capital Crane Saves on equipment costs and experiences ease of use with Verizon Connect.

Case study Business management

Steve Hilker Trucking experiences superior customer service, easy a...

Steve Hilker Trucking, a livestock delivery company, installed Verizon Connect GPS tracking and improved customer service and reporting c...

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How we helped a feed supplier improve productivity

Download this case study to learn how Witmer Feed improved productivity with gps fleet management software from Verizon Connect, see how ...

Case study Business management

Camping Companies, Inc., Controls Its Mobile Workforce

Camping Companies was looking for a GPS Tracking System to better service its clients and manage employees in the field

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How 1-800-GOT-JUNK Boosted On-time Arrivals and Revenue with Verizo...

Using Verizon Connect has helped 1-800-GOT-JUNK outperform their competitors by increasing the accuracy of arrival times improving dispat...

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ACRT Leaves Previous GPS Provider for Verizon Connect Superior Feat...

ACRT Leaves Previous GPS Provider for More Features, Increased Reliability and Superior Customer Service With Verizon Connect.

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Crane Transport Enhances Customer Service and Improves Compliance w...

Crane Transport improves driver visibility, customer service and compliance with the help of Verizon Connect. They have since become safe...

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Winning with ELD: Driving revenue with Logbook

Cash. Pocket change. Benjamins. Moola. Bacon. Paper. No matter what you call it, it still means one thing—money. And without money, busin...

Compliance

Winning with ELD: Improving Your Productivity

Does this sound familiar? It’s 8am at ABC Trucking Company, and there’s already a flurry of activity going on. Drivers are milling around...

Compliance

5 Ways Companies with Truck Fleets will Use Drones

The rise of drones, both in the air and on the ground, promises to reinvent freight logistics across the U.S. – and eventually the world....

Business management

Drone Fleet Management Increases Efficiency

For companies that operate fleets of trucks, small gains in efficiency translate to huge savings when scaled across an entire operation. ...

Business management

Fleet Management Buyer's Guide

Find out how GPS fleet tracking works and how to find the right solution for your business with our Buyer's Guide.

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[Webinar] 4 Myths and Bundled ELD Solutions

In this webinar, learn about 4 ELD Myths and everything you need to know, fact and fiction, about the mandate and how our bundled solutio...

Compliance

Eliminate Paperwork to Get More Done

Using field service software eliminates paperwork tasks that suck up so much of the workday, giving you time back in your day for the imp...

Business management

Avoid the Trickle-Down Effect: A Broken-Down Fleet

Do you know the impact on your fleet of having just one broken down fleet vehicle? Learn how a GPS tracking solution can help you stay o...

Vehicle & equipment management

Effects of Harsh Driving and Missed Maintenance

Read how harsh driving costs your business & how GPS fleet tracking helps you monitor driver behavior and fleet maintenance needs, saving...

Vehicle & equipment management

How Data Can Help You Tell the Full Fleet Story

Fleet tracking technology constantly collects information on vehicle and drivers, if it has to do with a trip, a truck or a driver, you g...

Business management

Do More with the Fleet You Have Now

Wish you had more vehicle or more time? Make the most of your assets and learn how GPS vehicle tracking can help you get more done in a ...

Business management

Are You Doing All You Can for Fleet Maintenance?

Are you doing all you can to keep up with fleet vehicle maintenance? Learn how keeping current on maintenance can help costs, productivit...

Vehicle & equipment management

Dispatch Without the “Crazy Wall” of Sticky Notes

A GPS vehicle tracking solution can help you eliminate job dispatch whiteboards. Our field service management software keeps all your jo...

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

Hidden Ways Your Business Is Losing Money

For business owners, saving money isn’t only trendy when the economy is down. Check out a few tops tips for fleets on the hidden ways yo...

Business management

Quick ROI on field service software for Zayo Group

Zayo Group manages more than 350 vehicles in the field with mobile workers spread across the US and Canada. As Zayo Group provides vital ...

Case study 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

Safety in the Age of the “Connected Truck”

Connected vehicles use different communication technologies to make driving safer and more efficient. Read how telematics helps you have...

Safety & security

The Top 4 Reasons for Roadside Breakdowns

No one likes being stuck on the side of the road. If you're a driver with a tight schedule, waiting for roadside assistance is something ...

Vehicle & equipment management

Fleet Monitoring: A Better Management System

Fleet monitoring, where managers can use data received from GPS trackers to get real-time reports on drivers, is proving a popular option...

Vehicle & equipment 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

You Should Be Using Geofences

There is likely some waste in your fleet. A GPS vehicle tracking solution can help you find it. Use our customizable geofences to create ...

Vehicle & equipment management

Fleet Management Tools Help You Reduce Fuel Costs

Fuel is a big part of every fleet budget. It accounted for nearly 40 percent of fleet ownership expenses in 2013, according to The Washin...

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

Eliminate Process Gaps to Cut Operational Costs

Increase savings and efficiency for your business with these cost cutting ideas. Learn more about how to cut operational costs.

Business management

Maintaining Fuel Efficiency When Fuel Prices Surge

Check out these summer fuel economy tips that will help your drivers optimize fuel efficiency and keep your gas bill down when temps go up.

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

DeSilva Gates Construction locates their assets and big savings

In searching for their assets, a construction company uncovers big savings. When you've been in business for more than 80 years you'd thi...

Case study Business management

Focus on Cost Savings: Dollars and Sense

Learn how to uncover and deliver cost savings. Have actionable data at your fingertips to help make smarter decisions for your business.

Business management

Accurate, Efficient, Simplified Timecard Reporting

Discover the benefits of employee time reporting systems with tips. Increase data accuracy and revenue while decreasing labor costs.

Business management

5 Steps to Introducing New Business Processes

Learn how to implement new changes in the workplace with tips from Verizon Connect. Workplace changes are never easy, but these tips help...

Business management

5 Tips for Effective Fleet Maintenance Planning

Developing and implementing an effective fleet maintenance plan can be easy. When developing your fleet’s maintenance plan, ask yourself ...

Vehicle & equipment management

The Cost of Even a Few Minutes of Idling Adds Up

Needlessly running the engine adds up over time, especially if you have several vehicles on the road. Learn how to manage idle time with ...

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

Is Fleet Management Scalable for Small Fleets?

Most small business owners think of a GPS vehicle tracking solution as a great tool for the “big guys”. Here are a few tips on business c...

Business management

Verizon Connect integral to revenue growth of 20-25%

Poolsure, a pool water management company that services the entire Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida, has embraced technology - and reaped...

Case study Business management

Nine Ways to Do Truck Fleet Management Smarter

There are plenty of fleet management solutions out there but how many are actually suitable for fleets running heavy-duty trucks? The rea...

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

Why Are Metrics So Important to Your Fleet Safety Program?

Measuring fleet safety can seem more art than science. How do you know your fleet is safe? Is it merely the absence of accidents? Is it j...

Safety & security

Improve Fleet Efficiency on a Government Budget

Managing a fleet of cars, trucks, or buses presents a unique set of challenges. Fuel costs, routing, maintenance, driver safety, and vehi...

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

2015 Fleet and Vehicle Management Survey Findings

More than 1,100 business owners, fleet operators, and general managers participated in a recent survey about their biggest fleet manageme...

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

5 Ways to Make Your Drivers Comfortable With GPS Tracking

The benefits of GPS-based fleet management are clear. But have you thought about how your drivers are going to react when GPS tracking is...

Team management

Making GPS Work Underground: The Ford Story

Near Kansas City in Missouri lies SubTropolis, an underground business complex (potentially the largest in the world) covering more than ...

Business management

Enterprise Fleet Management Solutions

The larger your company, the more important it is to track the location of your vehicles and equipment. Through GPS tracking and wireless...

Business management

The Benefits of Asset Tracking

The vehicles you use to transfer goods and services aren'۪t the only assets that can take advantage of GPS-based solutions...

Vehicle & equipment management

5 Benefits of Built-In Fleet Tracking Intelligence

Keeping a fleet of vehicles well maintained and fully operational is no easy task. Fleet services supervisors walk a tightrope of thoroug...

Vehicle & equipment management

What Do Fleet Managers Do?

Learn what fleet managers do and how tools like GPS fleet monitoring software help them cut costs, increase productivity and improve safety.

Business management

3 Ways to Make Your Trucks Targets for Inspection

Managing your CSA profile is an essential element of an effective and proactive safety program. Since the data that goes into your profil...

Vehicle & equipment management

5 Elements of an Effective Fleet Safety Program

Our guest blogger Brad Penneau brings nearly 30 years of motor carrier safety, compliance, risk management and operations experience. Bra...

Safety & security

Reduce Your Fleet Maintenance Costs

Vehicle repair and upkeep can have a huge effect on a fleet's bottom line. By providing extensive engine diagnostics, GPS tracking soluti...

Business management

The Evolution of Fleet Managers

It'۪s becoming increasingly common to see tasks traditionally performed by humans now done by technology or computers. Many fear that som...

Business management

Optimizing Fleet Size and Utilization

Today'۪s managers constantly strive to cut costs and operate more efficiently. This is especially true for public agency fleets that must...

Business management

Top 8 Challenges Enterprise Fleet Managers Face

Large enterprise companies that cover a vast area, own thousands of vehicles, and are responsible for a huge number of drivers across sev...

Business management

Enterprise Fleet Management Dashboard: Tame Big Data

As telematics enters the era of big data and the connected Internet of things, fleet managers are staring down the barrel of an informati...

Business management

6 Advantages of Working with a Single Vendor

Like the universe, the enterprise software marketplace is expanding rapidly. More and more vendors are entering the market, often with a ...

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

How Much Fuel Are You Losing to Thieves?

There’s no question that fuel is a big expense for every fleet. On average it accounts for around 30% of total expenses, with many ...

Business management

Tracking and Monitoring Unpowered Assets

When it comes to tracking company asset like fleet vehicles, GPS devices are often wired to draw from the vehicle’s power supply. B...

Vehicle & equipment management

GPS vs. Telematics: How Do They Compare?

You are probably familiar with the average GPS device; maybe it’s a Garmin, a Navman or even a smartphone running something like Google M...

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

Top Ten Ways Fleet Drivers Can Use Less Fuel

With fuel costs accounting for about 30% of your fleet’s total operating costs, it makes good business sense to minimize your gas b...

Business management

What Do School Bus GPS Systems Track?

School buses are under pressure to not only provide a safe, reliable service to school children and their parents, but also to run effici...

Business management

5 Best Truck Stops in America

See our lists of the 5 Best Truck Stops in America and why. Valuable information for truckers and road trippers. See which provide the e...

Business management

Manage All Your Mobile Assets on One Dashboard

How many of your mobile assets are you managing using location-based software? None, a few, or the whole fleet? One thing is certain: it ...

Business management

Common Costly Mistakes in Fleet Planning

Fleet planning, like a lot of business planning, can be a hit OR miss affair. It’s not always an exact science. But there is a big ...

Business management

Driving: One of the Most Dangerous Oilfield Jobs

You might think there are jobs on an oil or gas field that are a lot more dangerous than driving.These guys are working with menacing equ...

Safety & security

Driver Scorecards Improve Safety and Reduce Operational Costs

If you collected baseball cards as a kid (or maybe still do), the most distinctive attribute of that baseball card after the picture on t...

Safety & security

Do You Know the True Cost of Fleet Accidents?

Worker safety is of paramount importance to employers, employees and government authorities. When you consider that 5,071 workers died o...

Business management

Making Your Fleet Solution Fit: API Integration

When you buy software off the shelf, it doesn't always fit your organization's IT infrastructure exactly. You may need it to integrate, o...

Business management

Telematics Solutions for New Fleet Vehicles

In the past getting telematics for your fleet was often a complicated process. Aftermarket hardware installations, rewiring vehicles, dow...

Business management

Do You Know How Good Your Drivers Really Are?

Do you know how good your drivers really are? Here are ten performance indicators you should watch!We all know there are challenges with ...

Team management

Surveying and mapping reduces fuel use while improving safety

Idling and fuel use reduced, safety and crew management improved using powerful fleet management system. The Power of Location: SAM reduc...

Case study Business management

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