Landscaping companies are accepting GPS tracking as a necessary tool for doing business these days. The technology gives supervisors a leg up on old mobile workforce management practices and drives cost savings that derive from a number of different areas.
Save on Fuel
GPS tracking gives landscaping supervisors the ability to observe and coach driver behaviors. This insight allows them to eliminate excess speeding and idle time, ensure the most efficient routes are taken and identify unauthorized usage.
Cut Labor Costs
In the past, landscaping companies would go off of manually filled out time cards to determine hours worked and pay. GPS tracking software monitors start and stop times to act as an accurate virtual time card. GPS tracking can tell landscaping supervisors when crews start/end the day, how long their breaks were, and how many jobs were completed. Having access to this information will reduce padded hours, overtime, and loss of productivity, leading to reduced labor costs.
Provide Proof of Service
Sometimes customers claim that a crew didn’t come by to service their property. In this case, it is their word against the crews’. Since the ‘customer is always right’, the company most likely winds up sending a crew out again to do the job whether they were actually there already or not.
GPS tracking will provide support when customers call in to report no-shows. Supervisors can quickly pull a report to see if the crew was at the customer location, when they arrived and how long they were there. This way the company does not eat the cost of sending the crew back out to a customer location and guarantees they get their hard earned money.
Improve Vehicle Life Cycles
GPS tracking will also help landscaping companies keep up on vehicle maintenance. A maintenance schedule can be set up within the GPS software that will remind supervisors and crews of upcoming or overdue maintenance so that unnecessary repairs, such as a blown engine, will be avoided. Keeping up on routine maintenance will extend vehicle life and save landscaping companies a lot of money.
GPS Tracking Software
Advanced GPS tracking will not only track vehicles but also track trailers so that you can manage all of your high-value assets.
Put an end to the old management practices and implement GPS tracking software to improve productivity and significantly reduce operating costs.
For more information on how landscaping companies benefit from the location intelligence provided by GPS tracking, contact us.
