Time to Take [Control] of Your Vans and Drive Your Business?

Your management team understands your business objectives and can take control anytime to locate and manage your van fleet effectively, without ever needing the drivers’ input.

Knowing where your vans are and what delays they may be experiencing gives you critical business intelligence to help you communicate more effectively with your team.

Knowing the exact times a van moves, gives you a digital log and timesheet showing what time it left the depot and what time it arrived.

By marking common customer sites, lunch bars and landmarks, you can see that vehicles are at the designated sites without needing to reach the driver.

Analyse what sort of utilisation your van fleet is getting so you don’t need to rely on claims of staff wanting vans.

See which vans are the most heavily used and which are hardly used, to help you make decisions about when to update to save on running costs.

Your schedulers and support staff can use BlackBox tracking and see immediately where a van is. This allows them to judge whether the van is on schedule, if it’s worth redirecting it to a new job, dispatching a support vehicle, or calling in the unloading team.

You can check each van’s odometer anytime from the comfort of your office. This gives you accountability and helps your team manage distances travelled each day, check the fuel bill against distance travelled and compare running cost with alternative vehicles (justifying purchasing decisions). It also helps you schedule servicing on time, making your van fleet more reliable ensuring it’s running more economically.

Monitoring excessive idling can help reduce costs through wasteful fuel burn, keeping your vans in better shape and reducing maintenance.

Optimise under-utilised vans by tracking distance and hours used, it’s easy to see which vans are sitting idle or not being used to their capacity. This maximises your asset investment and shows which vans are more available.

Locating where the issues are and fixing them creates opportunities for streamlining and improving production from each van.

Does a certain loading dock always keep your drivers waiting? Keeping the wheels turning with a load onboard keeps costs down and production up.

Automated alerts can be setup to notify supervisors — even on their mobile phone. This could be a convenient check for when a driver gets back in the evening, or has pulled up for the night. Using technology helps reduce time logging data, but also gives you some comfort knowing when areas of interest and regular milestones are being met.

Automate service reminders when vans reach set distance or time usage milestones. This simplifies the task of managing services and ensures nothing is ever overlooked.

Reminders for servicing a fire extinguisher or any other onboard item that needs inspection can also be set.

You can even check that a van went to a recognised service point.

Understanding loading, travel and unloading times will help you bid more accurately for business and increases your chance of winning more profitable jobs.

Or you may discover the distance travelled to a site is further than both parties thought, or the time on site was longer than anticipated. Irrefutable documented variance evidence may give you an opportunity to renegotiate.

Monitoring harsh braking and cornering can highlight poor driver performance which adds to running costs, fuel, tyres, brakes and overall servicing, but might also point to potentially reckless or dangerous behaviours that need addressing.

You can also see if your team of van drivers are taking the best route or travelling via their favourite pub or bakery for lunch.

With the ability to monitor both the van and driver 24/7 through software, automated notification updates and cameras, the safety and security of the driver and van are never more than a keystroke away.

Measuring loading and unloading times helps to locate, isolate and improve time management issues. Why does it vary by driver? Take longer at one site? One shift is quicker than another?

Site attendance times are now much easier and faster to log and report, taking only minutes, where previously it could have taken most of the day.

Staff overtime claims can also be checked against actual van use time reported.