Mobile Workforce Tracking Demands Driver Discipline!

Recent deep recession and fragile economic recovery are concentrating business minds across UK industry to find ever more ways to cut costs and improve efficiency. Nowhere less so than with fleet operators who demand of their staff to make best use of their daily work schedules. Deployment of mobile workforce tracking is a key tool to drive time management discipline.

There simply is no more excuse for not knowing the exact location, route and schedules of company drivers and field operatives at any time throughout the day, when they are away from company premises.

Implementing a system which offers mobile worker solutions is now central to fleet control in today’s technology driven environment. Installing Fleet GPS tracking in every vehicle can mean the end of common problems such as extended work breaks and unauthorised journeys and routes taken during company hours. Research estimates reveal that over half of drivers or other field workers routinely supply incorrect timesheets!

Company or fleet owners can obtain essential realtime vehicle tracking data on when an employee starts a vehicle, arrives or leaves a job site, and when the vehicle terminates. In addition, GPS vehicle tracking will supply reports on the exact length of time taken on site and the total time durations for the entire day. This means of course, automated log keeping and the end of manual, paperbased timesheets.

It has been constantly reported that companies consider investing in a vehicle tracking device almost solely because of their interest in knowing the movements of their drivers or ‘outside’ staff. Often the stated reasons provide real insight into how fleet tracking a mobile workforce would make dramatic improvements to current driver behaviour and as a result, see very urgent time and fuel cost savings reflected in the balance sheets.

Typical areas of driver behaviour reported include, not returning to base until the very end of the working day to avoid being given additional jobs if they did return early, remaining on jobs for far longer than necessary to claim overtime and staff either going home during their working day or just finishing early and not calling in for additional jobs.