Vehicle Tracking Systems to Lower Maintenance Costs

Fleet vehicles tend to cover relatively large distances compared to privately owned vehicles, and ensuring that the fleet well looked after is important in keeping maintenance costs low. It makes sound economic sense to supply anyone within a company carrying out high business mileage with a vehicle. Whether it is a delivery van, a service and repair car or simply a management-use vehicle, supplying a vehicle is the easiest way to control and offset cost of ownership.

But owning a large fleet – depending upon business size – can bring as many problems as it solves, and not least the need to regularly maintain and upkeep them. Company vehicles are expect to run in tip top condition all of the time, and to experience breakdowns can have severe ramifications; a breakdown on-route to a customer can cripple your reputation and lose business.

All this means that you not only have to run a schedule of regular maintenance on your fleet, but you also need to analyse any special conditions that your vehicles may be subject to.

It goes without saying that regular steady motorway journeys are less strenuous on an engine that lots of short journeys or routes which play tunes on the gearbox. If you have vehicles that operate on short journeys, or regularly undertake torturous routes, then they are more likely to need an intensive sequence of service than those on longer routes.

This is where vehicle tracking systems can assist you. Using GPS tracking systems, you can keep track of the mileage and determine the rate at which a vehicle is deteriorating, then, using using one of the built in reporting tools that come with the package, produce organise a log of maintenance schedules.

A new vehicle will obviously be put onto your service and warranty plan, and the warranty in particular will require that you can prove that it has received maintenance as required or risk voiding the agreement. By keeping track of mileage with a suitable software package, you can take care of this requirement too, which further helps with the fast resolution of breakdowns and unexpected failures.

Once you factor in the benefits that you will see from well-tuned and perfectly running vehicles, using these ways of keeping track of your maintenance needs becomes essential to the running of fleet. Keeping track of your fleet maintenance requirements you can not only keep your vehicles in the best condition, but also prepare them for sundry routine requirements such as MOT’s and servicing needs.

By having a credible means of tracking your fleet mileage, you not only lower your overall vehicle running costs, but you also avoid most of those unfortunate breakdowns that can sap so much money from your organisation, and leave your reputation in tatters. Linking GPS to your bespoke fleet tracking software not only makes the task of recording mileage accurate and easy but also allows you to plan your preventive maintenance and keep your vehicles on the road for the maximum amount of time, and that can only mean increased profits.