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Bad driving is bad for business

Discover how bad driving habits can impact your business with tips from Verizon Connect. It's important that your drivers...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

3 fuel saving tips for your business

Fleet management and fuel costs go hand in hand. However, that doesn’t mean that businesses need to accept huge fuel bills...

Customer Service

3 ways vehicle tracking can help to improve customer...

Tracking the location of your fleet with a vehicle tracking system can help you achieve your goals. Learn three ways...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Benefits of Commercial GPS Technology

Read the many critical benefits of commercial gps technology for businesses. Commercial Truck Drivers and Businesses...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

How Productive Is Your Fleet?

Learn the simple tips and tricks to ensure you're fleet is being as productive as it can be.

Team Management

Make Payroll Pain-Free With Fleet Tracking

Manual process naturally opens the door to inaccuracies, by automating payroll with the help of a GPS system, businesses...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Are You Getting The Most From Your GPS Solution

Find out if you're currently seeing all the potential benefits of your GPS fleet management solution

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Big, Beautiful Data

How does being in the know help your business achieve more? Learn how big data can improve your business by knowing the...

Team Management

Do you know where your drivers are now?

Worried about where your vehicles are? Do you know when your employees really clock off? Take control and sleep easy...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Buy Cheap, Buy Twice

Choosing anything that costs money should take careful thought & consideration. A telematics system is no different...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

9 ways to bring down fuel costs

Fuel is never going to be cheap and buying less will always improve your bottom line. Make sure you're following these...

Customer Service

Transforming transportation – lower costs, improved...

The bus and transportation industry is a challenging place to be in 2019. According to official government statistics...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Haulage: How to handle an increasingly challenging...

The haulage industry has never been without its challenges. Handling multiple shipments across various locations, battling...

Team Management

Supercharge your utilities company...

While every utilities company is different, the challenges they face are anything but. A demanding customer-base, tight...

Safety & Security

How to stay tacho compliant

EU tachograph regulation is strict and the punishment for failing to comply can be severe. Despite this, many fleet-reliant...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

3 ways fleet management software benefits the distribution...

The demands on the distribution industry have noticeably increased in recent years. With customers becoming increasingly...

Safety & Security

Are your drivers as safe as you think?

A newly discovered loophole in the way road accidents are reported has thrown the topic of commercial driver safety into...

Customer Service

Get your business ready for the future with telematics

The modern fleet is more connected than ever. As the digital revolution continues, this level of connectivity is only...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Are your drivers at risk?

A new report by Road Safety Analysis, commissioned by the AA, has found that ‘at-work’ drivers are far more likely to...

Team Management

5 ways to optimise your fleet...

When you’re fully aware of what’s happening in your business, you can identify more ways to improve safety, cut costs...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

70% of UK drivers admit to breaking the speed limit

The majority of drivers on UK roads regularly break the speed limit. That’s the finding of a recent report published by...

Team Management

9 Secrets Series: Timing is everything

Your time is precious, especially if you’re running a business. Yet, how much time do you and your team currently waste...

Team Management

9 Secrets Series: Don't short change yourself

Staff may complete job sheets and not include accurate start and finish times. So, when it comes to billing your customers...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

9 Secrets Series: Optimising from A to B

When it comes to getting from A to B, are your drivers following the quickest and most efficient route?...

Team Management

3 signs of a mediocre fleet

In the present era, fleet managers have access to millions of data points at the touch of a button to track various business...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Common Myths Series: All I need is a dot on a map

Many of those who think fleet tracking is too expensive often also believe they are overpaying as they only really require...

Team Management

9 Secrets Series: Manual processes are both outdated...

When it comes to your day-to-day operations, do you have manual processes in place which could be automated?

Team Management

What does Brexit mean for fleets?

Since the result of the EU referendum on 23rd June 2016, businesses and industry bodies across the UK have attempted to...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Common Myths Series: Fleet tracking is too expensive

It’s no secret that there’s a cost to installing GPS tracking across your fleet. However, this should be seen as an investment...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

9 Secrets Series: You could be letting your vehicles...

Depreciating vehicle values — and everyday wear and tear — can weigh heavily on your bottom line. While vehicles are expensive...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Common Myths Series: All systems are the same

By far the most common system myth is that all GPS solutions are the same. Fleet managers that have used and been left...

Team Management

Less paperwork = higher profits?

As the world’s businesses strive to get ever closer to the utopian vision of a paperless office, there’s an old business...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

9 Secrets Series: Don't accept bad habits

Do you know how well (or how poorly) your individual drivers perform on the roads?...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Common Myths Series: Fleet management tools require...

Rolling out any new technology across your business can seem daunting. This is a valid concern: a fleet manager’s time...

Team Management

Why work hard when you can work smart?

When you’re running a busy fleet, it often feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day. With so many important tasks...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

9 Secrets Series: Fuel card abuse happens, but it...

Fuel cards can be a very convenient and easy way to manage your fleet’s fuel purchases. However, without the ability to...

Safety & Security

Majority of motorists in favour of harsher penalties...

A recent survey commissioned by the head of road safety for England’s Police and Crime Commissioners has revealed that...

Team Management

Common Myths Series: Our current system works fine

Fleet tracking myths don’t just come from businesses that have decided against installing a GPS solution, they’re prevalent...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

9 Secrets Series: You don’t have to pay for wasted...

As a fleet owner, fuel can be an enormous and ever fluctuating cost, one that’s hard to control let alone predict.

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Plumbing and Heating: How to handle a busy winter...

Frozen pipes, emergency call-outs and unsociable hours often conspire to make the winter period particularly busy for...

Team Management

Common Myths Series: We only cover a small area

For many smaller firms that rely on fleets, it’s easy to feel like GPS vehicle tracking is overkill. After all, you only...

Enterprise Management

Are you keeping your new year’s resolutions on the...

Keeping on the straight and narrow. Everyone wants to be better, and that includes your fleet

Team Management

9 Secrets Series: Only pay what you owe

You only bill your customers for hours worked — it should be the same with your staff.

Team Management

Common Myths Series: Driver trust

Many fleet managers believe introducing GPS tracking is a declaration of war on driver trust. Is there any truth to this?

Enterprise Management

Harnessing the power of technology to help stay...

Winter weather is a safety and efficiency threat for the mobile workforce. Those without the right tools will be left...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Get your assets under control in 2019

Businesses often find themselves caught in a never-ending cycle of playing catch up and putting out fires, never having...

Team Management

2019: Set your goals

For many of us, the new year means new goals. Whether it is a personal resolution to lose weight or learn a language...

Enterprise Management

MRM: A smarter way to protect public transport...

Platforms such as Mobile Resource Management (MRM) could help improve passenger safety on public transport...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

How to stay on trend in 2019

January is often a time of reflection on the year gone by and planning for the one ahead. Did you achieve everything you...

Team Management

Do you have a winter driving policy?

With reports suggesting that the UK is set for its coldest winter in almost a decade, now is the time for fleet-reliant...

Enterprise Management

Dummies guide Video to Mobile Resource Management

Video - Dummies Guide to Mobile Resource Management

Vehicle & Equipment Management

What is Telematics?

A combination of the words telecommunications and informatics, it was the joining of these two sciences that resulted...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

How to handle the holiday season

The holiday season is traditionally a busy time for many fleet-reliant businesses...

Enterprise Management

Research finds Ops directors need new tools

79% of senior operational decision makers believe they need a better way to efficiently manage their mobile workforce...

Team Management

Minimise driver distraction

It almost goes without saying that driving while distracted is potentially dangerous. Yet despite this, four out five...

Enterprise Management

Tackling Black Friday and the Christmas season

Logistics managers and ops directors turn to tech to help cope with the influx of seasonal orders...

Enterprise Management

Mobile Resource Management – driving efficiency...

Airline Services businesses need a robust MRM platform to boost operational efficiency

Team Management

How drivers benefit from GPS tracking

The business benefits of GPS tracking are a major reason behind its growing popularity. With numerous case studies highlighting...

Safety & Security

Mobile phones and mobile workers...

Despite harsher penalties, in the UK, for mobile phone use while driving (an instant £200 fine and six penalty points)...

Safety & Security

Three things your fleet data could be trying to...

Your fleet may be producing vast amounts of valuable data every minute of every day but without the technology to help...

Team Management

How to reduce your fleet expenses...

If you are responsible for a fleet of vehicles, you’ll no doubt be aware that day-to-day costs can quickly add up, especially...

Team Management

Visualising your fleet data...

The modern world runs on data. We create and consume more than ever before. In fact, 90% of all data ever generated was...

Team Management

Out of hours: to track or not to track?

How can you allow your drivers to use a company vehicle in their own time and only track during the working day?

Safety & Security

The gamification of fleet safety

Every driver knows the importance of safer driving. But, while it is important, it’s not the most enthralling of subjects...

Team Management

Are your drivers taking adequate breaks?...

This is a question that should concern every fleet manager. For one, the effects of driving while tired can be significant...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Why tracking your assets is as important as tracking...

If your company has physical high-value assets, such as cranes, tractors or excavators, then keeping track of them is...

Enterprise Management

In the loop: How MRM can turn around your business...

Your mobile workforce are first on scene but last to the technology rollout. Yet a survey found a MRM platform can boost...

Team Management

Four lesser known benefits of vehicle tracking

When it comes to summarising the many reasons to implement GPS tracking, it’s only natural that some benefits take precedence...

Safety & Security

Three tips for a safer fleet

A safe working environment is of huge importance to every business. For those that rely on fleets, with drivers on the...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Is your tachograph working for you?

For many fleet businesses, the tachograph is merely a legal requirement – simply another box to tick in the life of the...

Team Management

Stay in the know wherever you go

Are you aware of what’s happening with your fleet when you aren't in the office? You’re not alone if you don’t...

Enterprise Management

Gig economy workers experience a lack of care and...

Research from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health reveals a disconnect between gig economy workers and employers...

Customer Service

What keeps you awake at night?

Many fleet managers are met with daily pressures within their organisation and how effectively it is being run...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Where are your vehicles outside of working hours?

What your drivers get up to outside of working hours is their business. The whereabouts of your vehicles, however, is...

Safety & Security

How to improve poor driving habits...

Do you run a fleet of vehicles and often rely on feedback from the public regarding your drivers and their behaviour on...

Team Management

Are you paying for hours not worked?...

Picture this: Your employees are paid to work 7:30 am- 16:00 pm. Dave, however, is starting at 8:00 am and finishing at...

Enterprise Management

Dysfunctional Families

Dysfunctional Families: Is your mobile workforce the poor relation in your enterprise?

Team Management

Calling all drivers – here’s what GPS tracking really...

Plenty is written, quite rightly, about the enormous potential of GPS fleet tracking to help businesses work smarter and...

Enterprise Management

TCFM unifies separate systems

TC Facilities Management unifies separate systems to monitor and manage field workers creating productivity dividends

Enterprise Management

Verizon Connect helps leading infrastructure company...

Story Contracting cuts reporting time from hours to minutes with Verizon Connect’s Mobile Resource Management (MRM) solutions...

Enterprise Management

Three key takeaways from the Commercial Vehicle...

Conversations with our partners at CV Show 2018 revealed three clear issues keeping enterprises awake at night.

Enterprise Management

Connecting your business for digital transformation

MRM supports digital transformation objectives by connecting new services with legacy IT to gain a one-world view of the...

Enterprise Management

UK drivers spending more than one day per year stuck...

New research reveals drivers in UK cities spend more than one day per year stuck in traffic. This adds up to an overall...

Team Management

Common Myths Series: Driver location

Another common objection to GPS tracking is not that drivers would see it as a breach of trust but that the trust is so...

Safety & Security

UK motorists are taking a relaxed attitude towards...

The AA has found that over half of UK motorists believe they can get away with dangerous driving due to a lack of police...

Safety & Security

Lorries can’t limbo

Railway bridges experience almost 2,000 lorry strikes per year. According to recent research from Network Rail, more than...

Safety & Security

Creating a culture of safe driving across the Fleet

New study shows the extent to which outside factors can influence your divers’ behaviour

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Helping fleet managers with vehicle maintenance

Government statistics reveal that nearly 50% of all class 7 goods vehicles between 3-3.5 tonnes fail their MOTs and highlights...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

For now, diesel can be the best choice for fleets

Though fleets should look towards electric vehicles in the long-term, diesel remains the best option in the short- to...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Bridging the gap to a fully autonomous world

Driverless cars would be on the UK roads by 2021 under Government plans to invest in the sector. While it will be some...

Enterprise Management

Building a business case for MRM...

A panel of 4 fleet owners including Balfour Beatty discussed some unexpected benefits of telematics and Mobile Resource...

Enterprise Management

Traffic jams cost the UK economy £9bn annually

Traffic jams on major UK roads cost the economy around £9bn a year in wasted time, fuel, and unnecessary carbon emissions...

Enterprise Management

Using the power of the cloud to get through the...

Storms battered many parts of the British Isles last week highlighting the need for organisations to be prepared for all...

Safety & Security

Safety Warning for UK roads

New Department for Transport statistics reveal that road deaths have reached a four-year high, and despite strict safety...

Enterprise Management

Fleet management systems set to soar

It may be no surprise to those at the sharp end of fleet operations, that a new report from analysts’ predicting that...

Enterprise Management

New research shows significant rise in fuel costs

This week, Confused.com released research showing petrol & diesel prices have risen by 7p per litre in the last year...

Enterprise Management

Autonomous vehicle reality check

It seems everyone is talking about autonomous vehicles and they have tremendous potential for fleets. But analyst Bob...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

UK average speeds fall by 20%

A new study has found congestion in the UK’s major cities has created a 20% decline in average vehicle speeds. Combined...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

New tests announced for ‘self-driving’ lorries on...

The UK government announcement that small convoys of partially self-driving lorries will be trialled on major roads by...

Enterprise Management

More than half of vehicle fleets are missing out...

A new survey from Shell has highlighted more than half of fleet executives still use manual systems for everyday fleet...

Enterprise Management

Mulholland enjoy 2.5% efficiency gain and expect...

For fleets, small gains can be applied across all your assets to become significant savings. Read how Mulholland Contracts...

Enterprise Management

Making Driver Vehicle inspection Report (DVIR) easier.

A recent post from the FTA reminds us that from vans to HGVs daily vehicle checks are essential. These checks help identify...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Is your fleet’s tyre pressure deflating profits?

Research recently released by tyre manufacturer Michelin estimates that 60% are driving on under-inflated tyres which...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

New diesel & petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040...

Plans to ban production of diesel and petrol vehicles by 2040 will have wide reaching implications across the British...

Enterprise Management

Is MRM the secret weapon for fleets to avoid peak...

With more than 250 sets of roadworks scheduled across major routes all over the country, is MRM the "secret weapon" for...

Enterprise Management

BVRLA report: drivers uncomfortable sharing data...

Report from BVRLA has found 44% are uncomfortable sharing data on their driving behaviour and performance. But do the...

Safety & Security

Apple introducing a new "Do not disturb while driving"

Apple is introducing a new "Do not disturb while driving" mode for its iOS 11 software update, which is due out soon...

Enterprise Management

The intelligent fleet: bridging the communications...

Sergio Barata looks at connectivity trends and gazes into the future to help you understand where IoT and connected fleet...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

Is your fleet running on diesel?

Make your fleet, workforce & assets more intelligent and boost fuel efficiency to create significant economic and environmental...

Vehicle & Equipment Management

A big week in the world of autonomous vehicles

While fully autonomous vehicles are a way off, your business can use the data centric approach that powers them

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