GPS Tracking For Plumbers
Using a fleet tracking system for your plumbing company is now easier, more useful and more important than ever.
Running your own plumbing company can be extremely rewarding, as you are effectively your own boss and master of your own destiny!
However, you will also experience more than your fair share of headaches, long hours and unexpected issues on a daily basis.
Even in busier periods, you cannot predict your income beyond the last job that you have booked in! Therefore, you also have to be actively booking in future work, advertising and ensuring the best service to encourage referrals.
This means that customer service, organisation and maximising your time / staff is imperative.
On top of this you’ll no doubt have anxious customers, burst pipes and leaking sewage to deal with!
BEST FLEET TRACKING SYSTEM FOR PLUMBERS
For any business, anything that allows you to streamline and run your service more efficiently is not only a huge help, it’s vital!
That’s why More Fleet is the best fleet tracking system for plumbers and their staff.
MoreFleet allows you that important full visibility of your entire fleet, whilst also lowering fuel costs, automatically generating your time sheets, as well as adding extra security to your vans.
This means that you can focus on the vital jobs like sourcing more work, and providing the best possible customer experience that you are capable of.
BENEFITS OF FLEET TRACKING FOR PLUMBERS
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REDUCE FUEL COSTS
One of the biggest expenditures for any plumbing company will be fuel costs, as well as keeping your vehicle roadworthy in general.
Using more fuel than necessary through taking ill informed routes and irresponsible driver habits, adds up across your fleet over the course of the year. This directly eats in to your precious bottom line.
Your More Fleet system means you can easily monitor the fuel usage for all of your vehicles.
The information is accurate, easy/quick to access and very clear to understand where the areas of weakness are.
It could be that your staff leave the ignition running whilst parked up on their lunch break (idling).
This is like pouring money down the drain, can waste approx £5 every half an hour.
MoreFleet gives you full control over your fuel costs
With MoreFleet, you will receive an instant alert through to your mapping panel and phone if a vehicle has been idling for an extended period (we suggest setting to 5 minutes).
You can then check on your map/app the vehicle status. It will be clear if they are stuck in traffic, or just parked up outside Greggs with the engine still running!
The bad news is that this is not the only bad driver habit that is costing you money without you realising.
The good news is, MoreFleet easily help you identify and eliminate all of the other main ones.
Just this one feature helping you confidently identify these weeks spots will save you so much fuel, time and money.
This alone makes MoreFleet an essential tool for any plumbing company with vehicles on the road.
But wait. There’s even more!
IMPROVED DRIVER BEHAVIOUR
One of the most popular benefits of MoreFleet by far is the Driver Behaviour League.
Your Driver Behaviour reports automatically log the activity of your vehicles.
You may have your suspicions about poor habits, due to unnecessarily high fuel costs or regular repair bills.
Without being in the vehicle though, you wouldn't be able to confirm or prove your suspicions.
Until now!
Your Driver Behaviour Reports will show an overall drivers score, and then a break down of the most costly and damaging habits.
These include
- Idling
- Harsh braking
- Erratic acceleration
- Speeding
Your drivers receive a score for all of these habits, so you can see if there are recurring issues.
All of these scores add up to an overall driver score, and you will see the league of your best and worst drivers.
This allows you to give your drivers warnings or educate on areas that they can improve. Like all of us, they might not be aware of bad habits that they have developed.
Not only will you majorly reduce your fuel costs, but you will also see an indirect saving in both vehicle depreciation, as well as repair / service costs.
Most important is that your staff we now be driving more responsibly, increasing safety on the road.
Many plumbing companies will have their company details on their vans.
Any road rage or aggressive driving can lead to negative feedback or reviews from other road users.
Small changes in driver habits make a huge difference. When your vans are driven more responsibly it will add years on to their lifespan, and cut down maintenance costs along the way too.
Many plumbing companies will have their company details on their vans.
Any road rage or aggressive driving can lead to negative feedback or reviews from other road users.
Small changes in driver habits make a huge difference. When your vans are driven more responsibly it will add years on to their lifespan, and cut down maintenance costs along the way too.
TIME SHEETS
As your vans move throughout the day, Your More Fleet system automatically generates multiple reports for you to access if you ever need to.
Some reports will be more applicable to certain industries, but they are all always there if you need them!
One report that you will definitely find useful is automated Time Sheets.
Time sheets/shift reports prove to be extremely useful when working out hourly wages. Not only this, this also means you can provide evidence to clients who are disputing the work completed.
Payment disputes can use up time and resources to resolve, and also negatively impacts your cash flow whilst payment is held up.
For those companies that need to social distance, or would like to minimise interaction then why not check out our ‘Fleet-In-A-Box’ option. You can order directly online and could have your fleet running as soon as tomorrow!
When you run a business, you are expected to be constantly multi-tasking.
On top of everything else, there are constant changes and new skills/equipment to learn and master.
The time saved in manually writing out time sheets and chasing up staff for hours is all instantly eliminated, and produced for you at the click of a mouse!
Let MoreFLeet do your multitasking for you!
ELIMINATE UNAUTHORISED VEHICLE USE
Now that companies are minimising unnecessary operation from offices/ depots, you may now be going several weeks at a time without seeing staff, with them now leaving for appointments directly from home.
One of the biggest concerns for any company that allows employees to use their vans is if they are abusing this trust.
Many employees have had their company negatively impacted by staff using their vehicles out of hours, or working on personal appointments whilst they should be completing a job for you.
You may also have to deal with messy disputes over parking or speeding tickets for one of your vehicles - when an employee shouldn’t have even been in that area to begin with.
This isn’t to say you should suspect your employees of any rogue activity.
However, a surprisingly high number of companies fall victim to any of the above issues. And they can be frustratingly hard to confirm the full truth.
Being able to check your vehicle history and activity for any time and date gives you inarguable evidence to allow you to take the correct actions with full confidence.
You may even eliminate doubt and prove your employee is being honest, but just needs to work on time management.
Any issue is solvable in business. You just need to know what the issues actually is before you can address it.
STAY AHEAD OF COMPETITION
Any of the above features alone will majorly improve the efficiency of your fleet
helping you save/make you money, work more efficiently and also provide a better customer experience.
But using them all and more adds up to an incredibly efficient fleet, eliminating some of your most stressful issues that a plumbing company can face with their vehicles.
Not only this, but the added efficiency of your fleet means you can book in last minute jobs with more confidence. This allows you to provide an instant response to emergency jobs that you may not have been able to say yes to before.
Building a reputation based on reliability, quick responses, quality work and happy staff can be priceless in industries where you have so many direct competitors.
The reality is that multiple competitors in your area are likely to already be using a fleet tracking system themselves.
Make sure you stay ahead of your competitors with MoreFleet.
When you have your entire staff force streamlined, and functioning to its full potential then you can pretty much write yourself a blank cheque.
Setting up MoreFleet couldn’t be easier!
Your mapping panel is set up in advance and your trackers are already active when you log in.
With the Fleet-In-A-Box option you simply attach your trackers yourself, and so you can have MoreFleet set up within 24 hours from now!
Let MoreFleet take care of the time consuming jobs, so all you need to worry about is turning the water back on at the end of a job!
If you would like more information on options for GPS tracking for your plumbing company, then contact our MoreFleet Team any time.
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Trackershop's Installs Team covers the whole of the UK, and offer express installation in every UK postcode.
Due to the amount of engineers that we have on the road, we can fully install your fleet tracking system within 1-3 working days. Even if you need installation in multiple locations.
Installing a tracker is becoming increasingly more common practice for vehicle owners. The reason that insurance companies typically request for a Thatcham approved tracker to be installed, instead of other aftermarket trackers available is due to the impressive recovery rate that Thatcham approved trackers have, with some Thatcham companies such as Tracker UK boasting a 96% recovery rate. All Thatcham approved trackers are installed covertly in different areas of a vehicle keeping thieves on their toes, unlike trackers that are installed at the factory which are all installed in the same position in the vehicle.
There are various factors that determine whether installing a car tracker will lead to a direct reduction in your insurance policy. Typically if your vehicle is valued over around £20,000 then your insurance company are likely to honour a reduction in your policy, however this is subjective to the insurance underwriter. Of course it’s in their own interest to protect their investment when insuring you and with the proven theft recovery rates that Thatcham approved trackers have, you will find that the vast majority insurers will side to offering you the discount and in some cases insisting that they are mandatory for you to be insured for theft. Since the staggering increase in vehicle relay thefts – it isn’t just down to the value of the vehicle, if you have a certain model of vehicle such as a Range Rover, regardless of whether it’s over £20,00 or not insurance companies are stipulating that this is a mandatory requirement to obtain your policy.
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