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WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY:
WHAT MAKES A GOOD GPS
TRACKING SYSTEM?
I
f a GPS system helped
you take on one extra
job per week, and if
overtime payments could
be reduced by a couple
of hours per week, what
would your return be per
employee?”
Landscape contracting is labour
intensive. With many vehicles,
drivers and sites to manage, and
customers spanning a wide radius,
a popular tool for improving
workforce productivity is GPS
tracking.
A good tracking system doesn’t
just tell you where your vehicles
are, it provides information that is
directly relevant to your business
operations. The following points
will help you choose a system with
the strongest reporting capabili-
ties:
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Which reports will I need
to improve productivity
and operating costs?
Accurate timesheets teamed with
late arrival and early departure
alerts will reduce undue overtime
claims and ensure your customers
get the hours of service that they
pay for. Matt O’Conner, manag-
ing director of John O’Conner
Grounds Maintenance advises
“Quartix vehicle tracking lets you
take control of your fleet, improve
operational efficiency and manage
costs, safety and time.”
For park supervisions, tracking
reports provide proof of attend-
ance and the data is useful when
handling customer queries. Quar-
tix vehicle tracking APIs allow you
to feed all these valuable reports
into your own business systems,
including payroll. The data should
Landscape Insight | September 2018
“A good
tracking
system
doesn’t just
tell you where
your vehicles
are, it
provides
information
that is directly
relevant to
your business
operations.”
be accessible by any team, with the
ability to drill down into individu-
als or groups of drivers and create
custom reports. In landscaping,
managers are often out of the
office, so it’s also useful if reports
can be accessed via email and on a
mobile device.
Which reports can iden-
tify actions needed to
lower fuel costs?
To help your drivers become more
fuel efficient, you must know how
your vehicles are being driven.
Reports that include daily route
logs, driving style reports with
acceleration and braking metrics
and geofencing alerts to flag
unauthorised journeys and unwar-
ranted use of company fuel can
help. “It doesn’t happen often, but
if a driver does use our vehicle at a