How Municipal Agencies Benefit From GPS Tracking

Your responsibility to ensure that taxpayers get the most out of their dollars includes the careful management of your fleet of vehicles. To that end, you have a mandate to curb overtime costs, bolster safety, use fuel wisely and make sure that your employees remain accountable for their driving. Of course, safety for drivers and the public is another major concern you have to handle properly. Government and municipal agencies will want to take advantage of GPS tracking to help them better manage their vehicle fleets.
At GPSONEPLUS, we have years of experience helping government and municipal agencies with state-of-the-art fleet tracking devices based on data from the Global Positioning System satellites in orbit around the Earth. From managing waste to maintaining roads, municipalities’ GPS tracking systems serve to speed up operations, improve efficiency and guarantee safety.

More Responsive in Emergencies

When someone calls with an emergency, every second counts. You can improve your response time by including GPS trackers in all municipal vehicles. The system will let you see in real time the location of your cars and/or trucks — enabling you to quickly deploy them where they are currently needed most for ensuring public safety.

Less Fuel Wasted

It’s not always easy to determine the most efficient route between the starting point and destination, since driver experience is only part of the information with which you should be using to make decisions. By keeping track of the routes your drivers take to each destination, you can make adjustments to cut down on miles driven and how much fuel is used.
The tracking system will also note when a driver is idling too long in traffic, motivating you to find alternate routes that will burn less fuel. Less time paused in traffic jams also means less wear and tear on fleet vehicles — reducing maintenance and repair costs.

Worker Accountability

You don’t have to take workers’ words about their whereabouts or how long they spent in a particular location when you attach GPS tracking devices to their cars. Agencies that are concerned about employees taking long lunches, moonlighting or otherwise not fulfilling their duties can gather data to support worker discipline, retraining or termination — according to the situation’s severity.
Think of people who are counting on waste management trucks to drive through their neighborhood on a regular basis. You can use the GPS tracking equipment to verify that a truck was in a particular location when it was supposed to be, as well as check for historical patterns of workers slacking off or doing an excellent job on a consistent basis.
An easy way to automate this type of surveillance is to establish geofencing parameters. This lets you set up a given region where a vehicle is supposed to stay. If a driver takes the vehicle outside the boundary, the GPS system will detect it and immediately notify you of the transgression.

Recovering Missing or Stolen Vehicles

With a GPS system tracking vehicles, you can better protect your assets. For example, if an employee has not checked in for a long time (because of an accident), you can check where the vehicle is and call for help. A stolen vehicle approaching a known chop shop (where criminals will dismantle it to sell for parts) can be intercepted by the police more easily, thanks to the tracking information.

Reduced Overtime

Setting up a municipal agency vehicle tracking program with our GPS devices will help you keep track of how much time employees are racking up behind the wheel.
By analyzing patterns of vehicle movement in your area, you can detect whether drivers are making the best use of their time. If you present this benefit to your budget controllers, you can make the case that overtime reduction could help defray the costs of the fleet tracking devices you deploy.
When you prepare reports on vehicle usage or are about to conduct an audit, the GPS tracking data puts the information at your fingertips.

Ready to Begin GPS Tracking of Your Fleet?

GPSONEPLUS takes pride in the assistance we provide to government and municipal vehicle fleet managers. To learn more about our approach to GPS for municipal agency vehicle tracking or to arrange for a consultation with one of our experts to help you determine the most appropriate solution for your organization, please get in touch with us today.