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5 Benefits of Fleet Management System

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Fleet Management System: Instant Communication With Push-To-Talk

Why Opt For Push-To-Talk?

Delivery of cargo on time efficiently is an integral function of a fleet in transportation industry. High standard of timeliness and proficiency is an important set of rule that every business in commercial transportation follows.

To make this possible, a streamlined communication system needs to be in place in every fleet company.

This is where Push-to-talk solution comes that is one of the best methods to improve productivity of dispatching operations by immediate communication process.

With the help of Push-to-talk, drivers and fleet manager can seamlessly communicate with operators without having to worry about pulling over to text, use device for calling; all these activities can result in accidents or delayed service, affecting the productivity and delivery time.

Fleet can communicate instantly with the drivers in real time, thus, allowing fleet managers and dispatchers to make decisions on the spot. Seamless connections can be made with fleet managers, field staff and business owners taking one step forward in operation productivity.

Advantages of Push-To-Talk 

Instant Communication: With Push-To-Talk, drivers can keep their eyes on road while communicating with the fleet manager and discussing the issues or next dispatch, thus, eliminating the risk of accident and obviating the requirement to pull over to use device. 

Safety & Prevention: Driver can use this solution, if an emergency occurs. They can receive immediate help with location detection, allowing them to avoid unnecessary delays and get help in time.

Timely Delivery: With Push-To-Talk, instant availability of a communication channel can help drivers and fleet focussed on managing timely deliveries proficiently, keeping their clients satisfied with their services.

Centralized Communication: Instant responsiveness allows managers to speak with warehouse workers, customer service, truck drivers at the same time, thus, centralizing the communication for efficient work.

Hutch Systems offers Push-To-Talk services that facilitates fleet manager and drivers to speak to each other at the same time and manage fleet operations efficiently.

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Legal Archives: Rules Of Editing Logs Under New FMCSA Regulations

One of the major concerns over the ELD adoption is the confusion over the log edits. While there are restrictions under the new FMCSA ELD regulations, there is more flexibility in management of elogs than many think.

Hutch Systems bring you the pointers for making log edits that are allowed under the new ELD Mandate:

Permitted Log Edits

Although, the original driving status recorded by ELD is not erasable, but drivers are allowed to make edits to elog by providing annotations indicating the change.

Prohibited Log Edits

According to ELD rule, the following edits are not allowed to by driver or fleet manager:

Intermediate logs

Drive Time

Data Diagnostic events

Login/logout activity by driver

Authority Of Fleet Managers To Make Edits

According to FMCSA regulations, only drivers have the authority to make direct log edits. Fleet managers only have the permit to make log suggestions that are kept in pending, until the driver allows or denies those edits.  

Protection Against Driver Harassment

Fleet managers don’t have the authority to make edits because FMCSA wanted the drivers to have ultimate control over the edits. This is to limit the harassment to driver from fleet managers.

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Fleet Management System : Better Reliability And Enhanced Productivity

Fleet Management Systems provide a comprehensive set of features that can effectively slash the cost of the overall budget and time used for keeping track of the vehicles through technology.

Automatic Detection of Fuel:

Easily monitors the idle time and speeding of trucks, thus, detecting the driving time and the distance travelled by the truck.

Reduced Crash Rates:

According to the data of different survey reports, drivers using E-Logs had a lower crash rate as compared to the trucks that were not equipped with ELD.

Better Fleet Performance

The fleet matrix can be benchmarked with the similar vehicles to help educate the driver about better fuel and vehicle maintenance practices.

Reduction In Paperwork:

With accurate log keeping done through ELD devices, the data can be seen in the real time, thus, saving time to maintain the paper records.

Regulatory Compliance

Along with fulfilling the ELD Mandate, other regulations such as IFTA and Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports can be easily satisfied.

Accurate Reports

24/7 access to Key Performance Indicators in operating cost, repair expenditure and vehicle utilization, fuel tax, and downtime.

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