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Below you can read about a commercial door specialist who started saving money right away, or go to the actual site and read about it there.  This company used a Navman Wireless system just like the one offered by Driver Watch Systems, click here to learn more.

A commercial door specialist has saved £60,000 after introducing vehicle tracking.

Midland Door Services says it has made ‘phenomenal’ savings after investing in technology from Navman Wireless.

John Lunt, managing director, said: “I’ve calculated that the system is saving me £28,000 a year in overtime costs alone.

“Overestimating the time a job takes is a common practice, but because tracking allows us to see where all our vehicles are at any one time, there’s no room for doubt.”

As a consequence, exaggerated overtime claims have been totally eradicated and the company estimates it is saving around two hours a day for each of its eight engineers.

Lunt added: “Knowing exactly where our vehicles are has meant staff have stopped using company fuel when driving vans out of working hours.

“By prohibiting private use of our vans and being able to monitor that with total accuracy, we’re saving around £31,000 a year in fuel.”

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They go hand and hand, and Navman Wireless is helping to lead the charge against eliminating waste.  Here’s a link to a good article from www.infoworld.com mentioning the advantages of the GPS tracking system by Navman Wireless.  Interested in this system for your business contact us at Driver Watch Systems today to learn more.

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Navman Wireless North America today announced the addition of automated features for capturing and reporting truck drivers’ hours in its OnlineAVL2 vehicle tracking and logistics system for fleet managers. The new capabilities reduce paperwork related to generating time sheets, prevent drivers from inflating their time reports, eliminate time wasted in driving to a dispatch center to punch in and out, and improve visibility into overall driver performance.

OnlineAVL2 now automatically logs drivers in and out as they turn their vehicle ignition on and off. The software records data including start and stop times, total hours driven, time and distance travelled, total stops and total stop time. That information is then used to electronically generate time cards and produce a variety of reports enabling managers to evaluate the productivity of individual drivers as well as the whole fleet.

Reports can be configured to run automatically with no manual intervention or to be emailed to designated users such as the accounts payable department, an outsourced payroll processor, or fleet managers themselves.

OnlineAVL2’s new time capture and reporting system is included with new product purchases at no extra charge and provided as a free upgrade to current customers, either on request or during the next scheduled automatic software update.

“Companies with vehicle fleets typically spend hundreds of hours manually tracking and calculating drivers’ hours. This is costly, prone to error, and produces data in a form that cannot be easily used to measure things like time spent on the road versus distance travelled,” said Renaat Ver Eecke, Vice President, Navman Wireless North America. “By automating these processes, our new time recording and reporting features save time, cut costs, and produce actionable information that can help optimize fleet operations.”

This latest upgrade further extends OnlineAVL2’s ability to help fleet managers reduce expenses, increase fleet productivity and improve customer service. The combination of the Online AVL2 desktop application and the companion Qube vehicle-mounted GPS tracking device delivers advanced features such as wide area mapping down to the street level, the ability to identify individual drivers, polygonal geofence functionality for defining driver territories, robust two-way messaging and navigation options, and the market’s most comprehensive real-time and historical vehicle/driver activity reporting.

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