Fuel is an essential part of the operations of every business related to fleet management. Generally, fuel forms approximately 40% of the operational costs. If the fuel consumption is not controlled well, it will lead to enormous increases in unnecessary expenses.

Fortunately, you do not have to buy new vehicles with new standards to reduce fuel consumption. Actually, you can decrease fuel expenses 25-30% by harnessing the power of multiple advantages of fleet management cloud solutions.

Comprehensive dashboards provide detailed views about the entire fleet

Vehicles idling will definitely cause big increases in maintenance costs, for example, an average idling time for 3 hours per day will add the equivalent of over 40,000 kilometers in the damage and aging of the engine every year.

Monitor idling times and coach your drivers about the potential risks of the idling over your entire business by benefiting from the cloud services of fleet management.

Advanced reporting identifies gas-guzzlers and bad driving behaviors

Save your money and reduce how much fuel your trucks burn. With cloud solutions of fleet management, you will be able to track accurately the fuel consumption of your fleet. Then you can take action to control fuel usage, such as:

• Coaching drivers to reduce speeding.
• Tuning-up the engines.
• Preventing fleet fuel theft.

Better routing for more economically efficient fuel usage

Businesses that use cloud solutions can avoid unnecessary driven kilometers by 10-13%. SaaS services of tracking vehicles empower fleet managers to plan more successful journeys and optimized routes by giving access to the advanced mapping capabilities that show locations, starting points, and final destinations of all vehicles across the fleet.

Driver behavior monitoring for safer operations and more accurate investigations

Irresponsible driving causes a huge decline in gas mileage. To avoid that, GPS tracking can help you track drivers’ behaviors, to ensure safety and security in the field, and to avoid costly risks to the business.

Highly effective tips to reduce fuel costs caused by poor drivers’behaviors

Coach your fleet’s drivers with the following tips and you will definitely notice the difference in reducing fuel expenses:

• Drive smoothly
Smooth acceleration, early gear shifts, and steady speeds for better fuel savings.
• Correct inflation
Keep the tires at the best air pressure.
• Harmonic gearing
Switch between the gears smoothly according to the ground levels of the roads.
• Route optimization
Avoid unnecessary stops and traffic jams.
• Uninstallation of the unnecessary assets
Remove trailers and extra items from the vehicles to save more fuel.
• Monitor weights
Track the changes in vehicles’ weights to avoid extra weights added.
• Reduce idling to the minimum
Turn off the engines if there are needs to wait for more than 2 minutes.

Telematics for better fuel savings
By using a suitable GPS fleet management platform, you gain access to highly accurate reporting and analysis capabilities to monitor the performance of your entire business, via:

• Reports on idling, hard braking, and fast acceleration, that allow you to discover the potential opportunities to achieve better fuel savings.
• Video tracking tools  that highlight directly poor practices of the drivers in real-time.
• Integrations with external fuel management services, such as fuel card systems for more sophisticated consumption analysis.

Save your money today by choosing to benefit from the tremendous advantages of GPS fleet management solutions.