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How Pest Control Fleets Use Fleet Tracking to Eliminate Unnecessary Costs

Your business pays expenses every day that you may consider being the “cost of doing business.” Sure, those costs will always be there but do they need to be nearly as high as they are? Pest control companies are using vehicle tracking to solve difficult business challenges, gain visibility over their fleet, and to identify and cut unnecessary costs.

To give you an idea of how your fleet could be saving, here are some ways that pest control businesses are using fleet tracking that impacts the bottom line.

Achieving Fuel Savings

One of the most common areas that pest control fleets are spending more than they should be is on fuel. While fuel prices are subject to change, there are controlled variables when it comes to how much you spend on fuel like excessive idling, speeding, rapid acceleration, inefficient routing, unauthorized usage, and other driving behaviors that your business can regulate to reduce this cost.

That’s why many pest control businesses are using fleet tracking software to monitor driver behavior and excessive idling. Say a driver decides to take a 30-minute break in between jobs and leaves the vehicle running. How much fuel will be wasted if that happens on a regular basis and across multiple vehicles? You can use fleet tracking software to put a stop to this unnecessary cost by sending automated alerts after a specific threshold of idling has been exceeded, say 15 minutes, reminding your drivers to turn off their vehicles. This could save you hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on your fleet size.

Tracking Jobs Completed with Fleet Data

It can be a challenge for pest control fleets to provide proof of service during a customer dispute due to the nature of the business. How do you prove your technician was at their home and completed the service without any evidence to back it up? Without a fleet tracking system in place, it can be extremely difficult to do, which often results in a refund to maintain the relationship. That’s why many pest control companies are moving towards this technology to validate jobs completed and to streamline billing.

With fleet telematics historical data, you can tell your customers what date, time, and how long your technician was at their home. Detailed stop reports provide this information for any vehicle in your fleet, providing the proof you need during a customer dispute. Using this data for billing also benefits the vendor/customer relationship. You can guarantee your clients you have a great system in place to validate invoice accuracy before they are charged.

Validating Payroll Accuracy

Along with using fleet tracking software to keep a closer eye on how customers are billed, many pest control fleets are using it to monitor and validate their payroll accuracy.

Dayton’s Pest Control uses fleet tracking software to uncover new business challenges, including labor theft. The software has provided Dayton’s Pest Control insight into each technician’s workday, allowing them to eliminate false or inflated time cards. “We found out that we had a guy that would come in extra early, clock in, then go right back home,” said Shiela Hylton, Owner of Dayton’s Pest Control. Once Hylton was aware of this routine, she could monitor how frequently technicians were falsifying hours and accurately address this issue. The ability to monitor when their technicians actually started and ended their days enabled Dayton’s management team to drastically reduce unnecessary labor costs.

 

 

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