Our aim at M2M is to be transparent and efficient when it comes to everything we do. We strive to educate all our customers and future customers’ in a beneficial way to manage and track their drivers and trucks.
In this article, Marc Lonson the co-founder of M2M in Motion will talk about the under-utilized tool in fleet called Telematics System.
There have been reports proving that most are still not utilizing all the benefits of these systems. The report (by Telematics Benchmark Report: U.S. Edition), had surveyed over 2,000 professionals in the industry and discovered that full use of these devices have decreased from the previous years. Many are using it specifically for several tracking options like harsh braking, speed monitoring, maintenance, etc.
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IN the Telematics Benchmark Report, a few other trends were found, for instance, there were results of 64% using telematics solutions to comply with the ELD law and 28% not seeing any advantages to this technology. This means that more than half of truck drivers are not being efficient in their costs and wasting time and resources that could be saved through the vast benefits these devices provide. [/lgc_column]
After reading all these above results we realized the need to help educate on the benefits these systems can provide. For instance, some examples are 43% saying telematics solutions have resulted in reduced fuel costs and 3% reporting savings up to 30%! more benefits are drivers and companies saving on paper and incorrect logging, which 31% of respondents said they were still using paper logs. A few other ways is improving driver retention (52% believe this), 28% see a lower risk of compliance violations because of ELD’s, 20% saw the elimination of manual processes as their biggest benefit, etc.
Fleets see benefits as well, especially when it’s related to their vehicle tracking, which the report shows that 46% found telematics to be beneficial. 32% found more efficient routing and dispatching benefits, 32% also said it meets their compliance, while 28% saw the improvement of their driver’s performance, 77% using it for vehicle or equipment tracking and find it extremely organizing for the driver. There are many more areas that these systems provide, which we will list below, but one outstanding report was noticing that 43% of transportation companies using telematics admitted to not using it to evaluate their driver’s behavior even though the system can provide it for them and help the drivers be rewarded for their driving performance.
