You Don’t Need a Master’s in IT to Use GPS Fleet Tracking Software Rastrac Team | Mar 9, 2016 12:28:20 PM

Every day, fleet managers for all kinds of businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations strive to find ways to increase efficiency for their vehicle fleets. Efficient fleets can get more done with less, increasing productivity while minimizing expenses.

However, finding ways to improve efficiency can be tough, as there are endless competing needs clamoring for a fleet manager’s attention. Sifting through mountains of reports to find ways to make efficiency improvements is time-consuming and difficult, as it’s all too easy to miss a key piece of info on page three of the five-thousandth report you’ve looked at this month.

This is one of the reasons why many fleet managers use GPS fleet tracking software to help them manager their vehicle fleets. These programs help organize mountains of data into precise, easy-to-read reports that can give you all the data you need at a glance.

The best part about using GPS fleet management software? How easy it is to use.

You don’t need a Master’s degree in IT software engineering to use a GPS fleet tracking software. At least, not when you’re using the right software.

How does a fleet management software make itself easy to use? Here are a few examples based on RASTRAC’s software solution:

Integrating with Your Custom Maps

Custom mapping software can be an enormous help for all kinds of organizations when creating and planning routes.

For example, in city areas with frequent construction, new roads, on-ramps, and off-ramps can be opened or closed all the time. Custom mapping software helps you keep track of these changes by allowing you to edit road maps to add new routes or remove existing ones as necessary.

RASTRAC’s fleet management software has a map marker plugin that can be integrated with your custom mapping software so that the routes you plan and the tracking info you gather are relevant and reflect the best routes available.

Organizing Information into an Easy-to-Read Display

Reading text reports or trying to rely only on verbal callouts for checking service coverage over your entire service area is not a very accurate way to organize a fleet of service vehicles. Rather than trying to put pins on a map or tracking vehicle routes in your head, a GPS fleet management puts that information right on the screen in an easy-to-read format.

For example, RASTRAC’s GPS map marker plugin can be used to create color-coded routes on a screen that can tell you at a glance what you need to know: such as how long it has been since a given road was visited by a tracked service vehicle. Municipalities use this feature frequently to optimize snowplow routes in winter.

A GPS fleet management solution can also collect and organize important performance report data by vehicle, so you can easily see which vehicles are performing at optimum efficiency, and which ones need maintenance.

Menu navigation for this GPS fleet tracking software is simple, and takes just minutes to learn. With the right software, your job as a fleet manager gets easier, and your fleet gets to become faster and more efficient as a result.