Company
Fleetmatics Africa – Fuel and GPS tracking, a successful investment
The Company
Fleetmatics Africa is one of the largest trasporters in Tanzania. Investing in people, continually innovating and developing sustainable and profitable, Oceanlandcultivates the passion for excellence.
The challenge
To serve the large base of customers, Fleetmatics Africa operating a sizeable distribution fleet. Normally, this translated into enormous fuel costs, overtime driving hours and significant maintenance budgets up to the moment the company decided to test the Fleetmatics Plus from Fleetmatics Plus .to control all these costs.
Solution
Within weeks from the moment of Fleetmatics Plus implementation, Fleetmatics Africa managers were capable to identify cost reduction activities and to execute noticeable operational changes in order to make improvements in terms of fuel consumption, stationary time, repair costs and unauthorized use of vehicles.
Using Fleetmatics Plus, Fleetmatics Africa quickly reached their objective of reducing fuel costs by delivering more efficient and reduce vehicle idle intervals. But the biggest cost savings came from reducing amount of fuel given per trip.
By making use of the facility to receive alerts from the Application whenever a certain area or time restriction was breached, Fleetmatics Africa easily kept pace with preventive maintenance procedures. In addition, Fleetmatics Plus’s GPS provided real-time data that helped Fleetmatics Africa make informed decisions, saving further more time and more money.
In the end, the amount of cost saved were so significant that allowed Fleetmatics Africa to recuperate its initial investment in less than three month.
Benefits
To summarize some of the benefits for the company after the implementation of EVO GPS Application, Fleetmatics Africa is happy to report that their business objectives were fully met:
- Reduced fuel consumption;
- Reduced downtime;
- Reduced maintenance costs of vehicles;
- Increased profits.
