Recent digital advancements in fleet management have created connected, efficient, and safer vehicles through automation and new technologies aimed to streamline operations. These new solutions bring many advantages, including enhanced safety measures, financial savings, and improved compliance.
However, as fleets add more vehicles and laws evolve, the data grows, necessitating the implementation of innovative fleet management ideas to meet customer demands in a cost-friendly way.
Fleet managers with cross-departmental duties cannot always participate in every relevant activity. As a result, analyzing data and identifying novel strategies for boosting efficiency and addressing multiple demands becomes essential for personnel handling a wide array of daily tasks.
The following are four strategies managers might consider for enhancing fleet performance:​
Implementing a scoring approach that applies across multiple dimensions allows management to evaluate good or poor driving ability effectively. When used correctly, taking an automated approach improves performance across the board by rewarding good driving, targeting drivers who need review, and exposing hidden behavior trends.
A strong AI approach might introduce mechanisms for:
Fleets specializing in product or service deliveries must be highly efficient to meet customer demands. Fleet management software may help monitor vehicles en route and in real-time, promoting efficiency.
Appropriately planned routes (Fleet Optimization) and timely deliveries are a must for boosting customer satisfaction, making it critical to provide precise arrival times and narrow appointment windows. Leveraging fleet management software to analyze vehicle and driver data can help management determine delivery times, keep customers updated, and identify more optimal routes (if any).
By managing drivers’ jobs and schedules in real-time, routing adjustments can be made to shorten delivery times.
Having the ability to make and verify service and appointments streamlines daily operations, reducing or eliminating the need for manual follow-up procedures to accomplish the same task. These verifications can be applied for multiple services (delivery, transfer, collection, etc.) to prevent delays or missed connections and ensure customer satisfaction.
These automations include features such as:
Reviewing suspected undesirable driving events manually wastes valuable time and energy. Using automated strategies to examine and review undesirable driving behavior (for example, speeding violations) across your entire population of drivers saves time by providing essential information and filtering out inaccurate data automatically, allowing for quick and final decisions.
Reducing false-positives streamlines daily operations and cuts down on one of the largest wastes of time in the industry. This leaves you and your team available to more specialized work deserving of attention, thus improving the overall efficiency and performance of your fleet.
Over time, identifying and implementing time and money-saving ideas become significant to fleets operating in competitive marketplaces. Monitoring devices alone will no longer suffice. Companies should consider implementing innovative strategies via state-of-the-art solutions to make their fleet more productive and profitable.