FleetMatics : Strategizing Your Scheduling

You've probably heard people complain that 2016 'took' way too many awesome celebrities and rock stars (as if a year can be personally responsible for killing people off). They're not wrong per se - it was a boom year for iconic deaths.

Whenever someone dies, of course, it makes you wonder: Is that it - or does a part of them stick around, as a spooky spectral presence?

You might assume only two schools of thought exist about ghosts: Either you believe in them, or you don't.

But there's a third contingent: The ones who don't fall into one or the other camp. These people have never encountered a phantom (or a prankster in a sheet), but are reluctant to say they definitely do not believe in them; if this was a discussion about the existence of a higher power they'd be called 'agnostic.' Their argument is, 'If I haven't seen a ghost, how do I know whether they do or don't exist?'

The agnostic argument translates into other scenarios - for example, your drivers (who, we assume, are real humans and not ghosts moonlighting as field techs): If you can't see them, how do you know that you have enough - or too many?

You don't. Unless you can be in lots of places at once, there's no way you can see where everyone is and what they're doing, which means you're running blind on what the magic number of drivers is. Right?
Wrong.

With GPS fleet tracking software, you actually can see all your drivers all at once. It gives managers and owners the ability to view, on an interactive digital dashboard, all vehicle and driver locations and activity, including stops and starts and time spent at each job.

So you can see exactly how many people are in the field and of those, who is busy working, and who is just … chilling, which will help you plan and schedule.

You can even use historical data to put together reports on driver activity, to help plan for the future and figure out whether you have enough or too few (or, as Goldilocks would say, juuuuuust right).

This is especially helpful during busy weeks, when you want to make sure you have plenty of people available to get jobs done, but not pay too many people for overtime. Why shell out OT pay for 12 people when you could have paid 10 for completing the same number of jobs?

All of this data gives you the power to plan both day-to-day operations as well as think about future hiring, which translates into greater scheduling efficiency and more streamlined hiring practices - and there's nothing scary about that.

So when you're ready to gain more visibility, who ya gonna call?

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