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Fleet Tech Tips: Tires Affect Fuel Efficiency

Fleet Tech Tips: Tires Affect Fuel Efficiency

There are several factors that affect fleet efficiency and the amount of fuel used to get from one destination to another.  Make Tires Fuel-Efficient There are several factors that affect fleet fuel efficiency and the amount of fuel a vehicle will use to get from...

Fleet Tech Tips: Landmarks

Fleet Tech Tips: Landmarks

Sound telematics solutions have geofencing and GPS landmark functionality built right into the platform. Fleet Location Data Improves Operations with GPS Landmarks Within the IntelliShift platform, a GPS Landmark allows you to specify an area on a map with either a...

Improve Driver Safety, Reduce Risk Via Holistic Data

Improve Driver Safety, Reduce Risk Via Holistic Data

One of the biggest challenges a fleet manager faces is managing driver safety. Reducing risk and improving safety across the fleet is essential to keeping insurance premiums low, minimizing downtime, and preventing expensive and unnecessary...

What Happens When Your Software Provider is Acquired?

What Happens When Your Software Provider is Acquired?

As a long serving CFO, COO in the tech space, I’ve watched Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and industry consolidation with keen interest. Over the years there are some commonality trends that often repeat themselves. We have all heard about, read about or...

8 Signs You Need an Asset Tracking System

8 Signs You Need an Asset Tracking System

Benefits of an Asset Tracking System With a fleet, you have to consider the cost of vehicles, driver salaries, fuel costs, and more. After all of those investments, you may be hesitant to spend more, but the cost of replacing stolen or lost equipment is exorbitant....

Learn from the Success of Rosemar Construction Corporation

Learn from the Success of Rosemar Construction Corporation

Rosemar Construction, founded in 1988, has been a leader in commercial, municipal, industrial, and residential road work services on Long Island. Serving as both a primary contractor and a subcontractor, Rosemar has worked to provide a necessary service and improve...

4 Ways to Improve Communication Across Your Mobile Workforce

4 Ways to Improve Communication Across Your Mobile Workforce

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the poor mobile workforce communication? Keeping in contact with your mobile employees can be incredibly challenging when you do not see them face to face. If you don’t take control of the situation and establish ground rules for better...

Top 5 Ways To Reduce Fleet Costs

Top 5 Ways To Reduce Fleet Costs

If your company relies on a mobile workforce of drivers and vehicles, you're probably always looking for ways to reduce fleet costs. Having relevant insights and reporting at your fingertips is a critical first step.  With the right data on driver and vehicle...

What is Big Data?

What is Big Data?

Big data is a buzzword in the telematics industry right now. It describes the utilization of advanced data that is pulled from the Internet of Things (IoT), social media, mobile devices, sensors, applications, and other sources to make advanced, data-driven decisions....

Are Tires Affecting Your Fuel Efficiency?

Are Tires Affecting Your Fuel Efficiency?

Did you know tires can affect your fleet’s fuel efficiency? There are several factors affecting a fleet's fuel efficiency. One of the main elements that affect fleet fuel life and efficiency are tires. According to the American Trucking Association, under-inflation by...

[Telematics Trends] The Future of Connected Field Operations

[Telematics Trends] The Future of Connected Field Operations

Telematics trends are overtaking the connected field operations industry. With connected, new fleet tracking technology fleet management operations are streamlined. These changes, although happening all around us, will most certainly generate productive growth of...

How Do You Lose An 18-Ton Excavator?

How Do You Lose An 18-Ton Excavator?

In Riverhead, New York an 18-ton excavator was stolen from a private property. This particular piece of equipment was worth $100,000 and when this article was written, the police did not have any leads. According to the article in Newsday, it was stolen between April...