While most people now seem to focus on losing weight after Christmas and getting healthier by dieting and quitting smoking—these post-festive objectives are probably the most commonly recited resolutions made at the end of December—fleet managers have other priorities and are likely asking themselves what they can do to improve the activity of their fleet. No doubt, they are probably doing it at every opportunity anyway, but at the end of the year, they might feel even more motivated as everyone is usually busy drafting their personal to-do list for 2017.
Fleet management solutions may yet be considered a viable solution or support platform to achieving positive results, but what then are the most frequent resolutions fleet managers make, and how can a fleet management solution take you beyond a random list on a piece of paper, toward the concrete realisations of your goals?
Let’s begin with our own list!
1. Saving money: this is a reasonable item on anyone’s New Year’s resolutions list, but obviously more than applies to fleets as well. It is a continuous requirement for any fleet manager to save money by efficiently managing resources or in order to comply with budget constraints or even just to meet the constant demand for today’s companies to operate within tight margins. With fleet management solutions, you can save money globally, both on costs such as fuel and maintenance but also on time spent on logbooks and paper.
2. Managing your fleet better: if you feel that despite all the effort you are putting into fleet management there are still gaps, a fleet management solution can help you identify them and reassure you regarding the strongest areas of the business. This will push you to concentrate on activities that require more attention. Your fleet and team will thank you for this.
3. Become more qualified: learning is a never-ending part of the job, and in actual fact might be one of the things that makes it even more attractive. If you use a fleet management solution, you will definitely learn a lot, whether it’s from the system and the different uses it can have, the mistakes you can detect in the management of your fleet, or simply from the precious insights you will gain from having unprecedented visibility regarding the day-to-day running of your operation.
