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WhitePapers Archive

Five Ways to Reduce Fuel Consumption Using GPS Tracking

Every fleet, big and small, must pay for fuel. As fuel costs continue to rise, more and more business owners and fleet managers are turning to GPS fleet tracking technology as a cost effective way to manage this unavoidable expense and give them the edge in a highly competitive environment.

Whitepaper: Improve Customer Service Quality with a GPS Fleet Tracking System

Implementing a robust GPS fleet tracking solution can improve customer service. It will improve response time, invoicing accuracy, and fleet visibility.

Reducing Fleet Spend Using Fleet Management Software

See how Cox Communications captures its complex and disparate fleet and operational data across its divisions and operating companies and then extrapolates real-time information, resulting in leveraged acquisition costs and a reduced fleet spend.

Primary Benefits of Using GPS Tracking

GPS Technology can be used to increase productivity, improve customer service, assist the employee in having a better safety record, help lower fuel costs, reduce overtime pay and lower insurance rates. View this comprehensive whitepaper to see how.

Why Advanced Performance, Driver Safety Training?

A recent survey of graduates showed crash reduction rates up to 50% or more. Understand the significant financial benefits obtained by incorporating advanced performance, driver training.

Fleet Management Services: Best Practices

Find out the best fleet management services and practices to consider for your fleet.

The ABCs of Driver Safety Training

Using the Best Practices we’ve outlined in previous White Papers, you have been empowered by knowing which drivers in your commercial fleet are most likely to have your next at-fault crash. The question now is, “What do you do about it?” This third and final paper in the series is designed to help you better understand the options that are available to you as a means of preventing at-fault crashes from happening.

Short-Term Leasing Benefits

Learn how you can save capital expenses through short-term vehicle leasing for special events, seasonal activities, contract or project fullfilment needs.
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Real Cost of Delivery

This whitepaper outlines and analyzes the real cost of vehicle delivery. You will be able to calculate your transport costs using the formulas provided.

Distracted Driving Whitepaper – Understanding Your Fleet’s Risk and Liability

This 14 page whitepaper examines the deadly practice of driving while using a mobile device and the impact such behavior can have on a fleet’s liability. It also addresses innovative solutions that are being developed in response to the growing problem.

Investing in Fleet Tracking Yields Substantial ROI

By tracking and monitoring your fleet with GPS, you can save money on fuel consumption, increase productivity, reduce overtime costs, lower risk, and even cut down roadside assistance costs. Read how Kennecott Utah Copper achieved a 1,500% ROI by embracing fleet tracking.

Hidden Costs That Eat Away At Your Fuel Budget

Could you be wasting money and not even know it? Download our white paper to identify ways your company can reduce fuel management costs.

What Will Your Next Crash Really Cost?

After reading our first white paper, “Enlist the Aid of ‘Road warriors’ to Help Predict Your Next Crash,” you know at-fault crashes are predictable. In this White Paper, Number Two of our series, you will learn that, since at-fault crashes are predictable, they are also preventable through the use of new technology.

Case Study: The Drive To Compete

In the late 1990s, the Arizona Department of Transportation managed over 12,000 government vehicles statewide, tracking every detail and every dollar with an outdated and inefficient DOS-based PC application. See what steps they took to become one of the most competitively managed fleets in the U.S.

Help in Predicting Your Next Crash

How can you, a safety or risk manager in a company, predict which driver is going to have your fleet’s next accident? By yourself, you can’t. But by enlisting the aid of other road warriors, you can predict which drivers in your fleet are at high risk to have your next at-fault crash.

Reducing Fleet Costs Benchmark Survey

How are you reducing fleet costs in this current economy? View our 2009 survey to benchmark your fleet's practices.

Fleet Cargo Security Benchmarking Research Results

See how your fleet cargo security and asset management strategies measure up with fleet managers across the nation.

Fleet Maintenance Management System Best Practices

See how one fleet implemented a universal system to reduce operating costs, instill accountability, save time and increase efficiency.



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Residual Values and Cycling Survey

See how other fleet managers are making vehicle cycling decisions.
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Here are the Highlights

  • Truck Accident Costs in 2011 Increased 1-8% on Average
  • Air Brakes Or Hydraulic Brakes: That is the Question
  • Ford Ranger Rides Into The Sunset
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