Louise Longworth offers the following royalty-free article for you to publish online or in print. Feel free to use this article in your newsletter, website, ezine, blog, or forum. ----------- PUBLICATION GUIDELINES - You have permission to publish this article for free providing the "About the Author" box is included in its entirety. - Do not post/reprint this article in any site or publication that contains hate, violence, porn, warez, or supports illegal activity. - Do not use this article in violation of the US CAN-SPAM Act. If sent by email, this article must be delivered to opt-in subscribers only. - If you publish this article in a format that supports linking, please ensure that all URLs and email addresses are active links. - Please send a copy of the publication, or an email indicating the URL to [email protected] - Content Crooner (www.ContentCrooner.com) has distributed this article on behalf of the author. Content Crooner does not own this article, please respect the author's copyright and publication guidelines. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this article. ----------- Article Title: Truck Fleet Maintenance Made Easy Author: Louise Longworth Category: Trucks, Management Word Count: 520 Keywords: truck fleet maintenance Author's Email Address: [email protected] Article Source: http://www.contentcrooner.com ------------------ ARTICLE START ------------------
Few businesses in the UK that run a fleet of trucks are ignorant of the huge logistics nightmare this can be. Keeping control of vehicles moving about across the country and trying to keep track of the movement of drivers and deliveries has always been a laborious task. In today's tight economy and ever increasing competitiveness in the market place, business owners need to take truck fleet maintenance up another level. Companies that have been in operation for a long time have seen many changes in how a fleet of vehicles must be managed from the days of drivers calling in from public telephones to where sophisticated GPS tracking is available. Knowing where your business assets are can help you save costs. This means that you won't have drivers doing their own things during working hours with a company vehicle as they will know and appreciate the fact that they are being monitored. Today fleet truck drivers carry smart phones and the vehicles are equipped with tracking devices. The vehicle command centres also are a far cry from the frenetic activity going on there in the old days. Technology and computers have truly revolutionised how things work. Both the driver and the manager know how things stand on the work end. So what all does vehicle tracking involve and what can it do for your business? First of all, the actual tracking of all the vehicles in the fleet forms a huge part of truck fleet maintenance. The control centre knows where every vehicle is at a given time, what route the driver is taking and when he delivers his load. This promotes enhanced customer service as you can assure clients that their consignments will be delivered in a specific time. Having real time tracking for all fleet vehicles means that drivers are aware at all times that their movements are being tracked. This brings savings in time, fuel and in fact human life as drivers keep to speed limits. There are great benefits for the drivers as well as they know that the control room is aware of their movements at all times, thus they feel safe that help will be with them fast when needed. Signing up with a reputable company for your truck fleet maintenance needs give businesses access to sophisticated software that allows the system to manage all the truck fleet maintenance processes as well. Control centre staff is well acquainted with all the paperwork involved in managing a fleet. There are vehicle checks, VOSA checks and defect reports, daily reports and vehicle maintenance and service information to name just a few. This is where an all-encompassing truck fleet maintenance service becomes more than just physically keeping track of the movements of your fleet of vehicles. It means software programmes, smart phones, GPS trackers and human skills combine to keep your business running in tip top shape. Documents can be scanned in and stored indefinitely, reports can be entered straight onto the system as the driver is doing checks and you can plan inspections and MOTs and show maintenance activities in diary form. Find out more about truck fleet maintenance by visiting http://www.truckcom.co.uk/articles/the-low-down-on-truck-fleet-maintenance Distributed by http://www.ContentCrooner.com ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
