The phrase “ignorance is bliss” isn’t an option when you’re managing a team of drivers and scheduling home deliveries. But, you can avoid being left in the dark and prevent your team from answering “I don’t know” to your customers again.   When you have live tracking enabled you gain immediate insight into your fleet’s performance. You can begin to manage your team with confidence and share visibility into your drivers’ locations. Transparency is the…

What do you do when your drivers leave for the day? Do you cross your fingers and hope everything works out? Or are you following their progress to keep your operations running smooth? Without a smart route planning software helping you behind the scenes, most business would agree that it’s a guessing game. You might find yourself relying on phone calls or text messages to have insight into where your drivers are. Which can eat…

A delivery company can only route plan by hand for so long, before they decide that keeping up with customer demands is too much. After all, logistics challenges are difficult to solve when you are juggling a variety of requests like: same-day, specific delivery times, vehicle restrictions, etc. So you need to change up your approach to keep up with demands and increase customer satisfaction. Take a page from Amazon’s playbook to see how you can immediately…

What is an ELD? An ELD (electronic logging device) is a device that is used in commercial trucks to track hours of service (HOS). ELD technology automatically records a driver’s driving time and other aspects of their HOS records to allow for easier, more accurate HOS recordkeeping. An ELD GPS device monitors a vehicle’s engine to capture data on the: Whether the engine is runningWhether the vehicle is movingMiles drivenDuration of engine operation in hours The reason…

Technology has advanced because of our attempts to solve common problems. And in the business world, technology is often the answer to budgetary or operational concerns. More and more businesses are adopting GPS technology these days, because they have recognized that the service solves these three common problems. Wasted Time In business, time is money, so wasted time directly translates to wasted money. Time is wasted in a variety of ways, especially when you have…