GPS Vehicle Tracking for Pest Control Fleets and One-Man ops

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As a service professional, ensuring consistent on-time delivery is not a preference but an absolute necessity. When ants, roaches, and spiders are attacking your customers’ homes, they want service immediately. Your ability to expedite service calls directly correlates to your customers’ level of satisfaction with your company or branch. The ability to intelligently dispatch through using Fluent vehicle GPS tracking will also garner you far more referrals than you might otherwise receive.

Interestingly, a series of studies by a leading business technology groups has shown that enterprises who utilize GPS vehicle tracking with their fleets tend to experience significant cost reductions and vastly improved employee productivity:

  • 23% increase in the number of service calls completed per day
  • 14.8% reduction in travel time per job
  • 13.2% reduction in fuel costs

The EPA estimates that one hour of idling time uses 0.82 gallons of fuel. Traveling 5 mph over the speed limit increases fuel costs by $0.20 a gallon. Doing the math, this quickly adds up…


REAL WORLD EXAMPLE.

Assume you have 10 trucks on the road. If all 10 technicians are idle for only one hour, each day while servicing their routes, they will have incurred a 41 gallon deficit just in idle time. (It should be noted that one hour per day of idling is a conservative example as the average tends to be significantly higher).

At $3.50/gallon, you’re paying nearly $600/month in idle gas; this equates to $7,000.00 annually in wasted money because of wasted gas.

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Additionally, the Fluent Locate GPS package for Pest Management Companies offers the following data for insight into your company:gps_equipment

  • Speed Violation Alerts: Set predetermined thresholds that activate when the vehicle exceeds thegps_equipment speed allowed.
  • Excessive Idling Alerts: Be alerted when your companies’ technicians are wasting money leaving trucks and other vehicles on when they should be off.
  • Geofence Alert: Sends messages to defined personnel when vehicles enter/exit virtual zone perimeters around a specific geographic location you have mapped in our software… no more weekend visits to the casinos in company vehicles.
  • Ignition Alerts: Notifies of unauthorized company vehicle use with instant alerts to company personnel when vehicles are used outside of specified operating hours.

What are the Benefits for my Company?

Improve Efficiency

  • Geofence and Ignition Alerts allow management to monitor and ensure that service technicians are on schedule and following assigned routes.

Wiser Expenditure Reports

  • Save on fuel and maintenance costs through eliminating unnecessary and hazardous driving.
  • Reduce the risk of accidents through active monitoring, speed alerts, zone alerts, and ignition alerts, avoiding higher insurance premiums.
  • Monitor and react to after-hours vehicle use and unauthorized stops or delays throughout the work day.

Protect Your Brand

  • Maintain a confident knowledge that your superior pest management brand is accurately being represented professionally by service technicians and other drivers while in the field.

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Three Ways a Fluent GPS Will Earn Referrals

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CAN A GPS FLEET OR VEHICLE TRACKER IMPROVE YOUR REFERRAL BASE?

As human nature would validate, your customers passively look for reason to remain loyal to you. Many want to be your lifelong customer — they’re comfortable with you. However, that does not mean you have a free ride. You must continue to work to retain their trust, confidence, and respect. Installing a GPS tracking system is one of the ways you can keep your current customers happy, which aids in acquiring referrals from them.

Referrals are one of the best compliments you can receive from a current customer. A referral would imply that the customer trusts you and is comfortable enough with you to put their own name on the line. A referral is an incredibly high converting lead. If you are in the growth phase of your business (you should always be focusing on growth), acquiring and converting referrals to new clients ought to be a priority in your organization.


YOU MUST PERFORM:

Now deliver what you promised your customers… deliver it well, quickly, and with gusto.

  1. Service Industry
  2. Reason #1 – Provide service on-time, every time.
    Don’t keep them waiting all day: if you are in a service industry you’ll schedule your jobs on a timeline. People waiting on a service call are eager for you to get the job done. Customers are far too familiar with the “cable guy” phenomenon and do not want to wait around all day for you show up.

    Your customers are busy and many have a job. Assigning to them an eight-hour window means they will have to take more time-off than they would likely prefer. With a Fluent GPS tracking system you can arrange for a shorter wait window by getting drivers where they need to go and helping them navigate more efficient routes, allowing for more jobs to be done. This means less people waiting around for your service technician to show. Getting GPS trackers for your vehicles is a smart choice for customer-centric companies.

  3. Goods and Deliverables
  4. Reason #2 – Deliver on-time, every time. Don’t keep them waiting.
    In our world full of Amazons, Ebays, and same-day deliveries, your customers are used to receiving their goods quickly and on time. If you are in the business of delivering goods, your customers are already biased regarding time-of-wait for deliverables. Your drivers will arrive on time thanks to the top-notch Fluent GPS tracker navigation equipment that gives you the ability to steer them from traffic, road construction, bad weather, etc. Your other jobs will run smoother leaving more wiggle room in between delivering when your vehicles are equipped with a Fluent vehicle GPS for efficient fleet tracking.

  5. Vehicular Dispatch
  6. Reason #3 – Dispatch with efficacy and efficiency.
    When they call, you deliver! Simply put – your customers call and you’re able to deliver within minutes or hours; not days and weeks. This builds trust and reliability among your clients. Of course referrals will increase if your customers are astonished by the speed in which you can meet their needs.


    THIS ARTICLE IS BASED OFF OF A BLOG POST ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED HERE.