FleetMatics : Reach New Productivity Highs

If you have ever tried to get young children out the door for an event, errand or car trip, you quickly realize that the five stages of grief apply to parenting, too:
1 - Denial: You're totally going to make it to the party/get to the store before it's packed/get on the road before traffic hits! You just need to put Jessica's shoes on and find your keys while simultaneously undressing Johnny because he has to use the bathroom (which he failed to disclose before he was completely dressed). Shoot, where are your shoes?

2 - Anger: 'Johnny, if you don't stop hitting your sister this instant, I am going to LOSE IT! WHERE ARE THE KEYS?' 'JESSICA! I TOLD YOU BARBIE CAN'T COME THIS TIME!'

3 - Bargaining: 'Please, please, please stop crying so I can think for a second. If I let Barbie come, will you stop crying?' 'If we don't hurry up, all the snacks at the store/at the party will be gone! If you put on your coat, you can have two!'

4 - Depression: You wonder bleakly whether you are even cut out to be a parent. Susan and Stan next door make it look so easy! Maybe you should just not leave the house ever again, or at least just give up on today and start over again tomorrow.

5 - Acceptance: The store is packed. The roads are packed. The birthday party starts in 10 minutes. You will be very, very late once again, because getting two small children out the door always takes way longer than you think it will.

Fortunately, not every situation is this complicated - but it's also true that time management issues translate to other aspects of life: Sometimes things take way longer than you think they will, and other times they take way less, and it can be hard to accurately estimate the right time frame for a task.

For instance, field techs at work might say that a specific job will take them the whole day to complete and they can't be scheduled for any other job orders. Unless you follow them to the jobsite and stare at them from start to finish, how do you really know? Of course, you'll still have to schedule additional field techs to make sure every other job order is covered, which costs extra, and if the field techs in question aren't really working the whole time, they're getting paid to hang out - but what choice do you have other than to assume their job really will take that long?

Here's your other choice: You install GPS vehicle tracking software.

You can see a visual, interactive display of vehicle and driver activity in near real time - so you can watch any trip from start-up to shut down. You can also pull up trips that happened in the past, letting you see where your drivers spent their time - and how they spent it.

The route replay feature lets you provide absolute proof of service, so you know exactly what time techs arrived at and left a job, and see unproductive travel or unauthorized stops like extra-long lunches.

With GPS vehicle tracking, you'll never be unsure how a long a job takes and whether hours paid equal hours worked. So while we can't help you get toddlers out the door any faster, we can help your field techs be more productive - and save the business money on labor costs.

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