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The start point for the best source of fleet information |
The size of your operation will ultimately dictate what you're after, but according to managing director of Fleet Risk Consultants, Nigel Grainger, you don't have to be a blue-chip organisation with a four-figure fleet to make monitoring worthwhile.
"If you've just got a team of five then it's viable," he says. "Anything upwards of that makes sense if you have people out on the road; if you have a team of 40 people sat in an office then it makes no sense at all, but if there are five sales people going up and down the country, you need to know where they are."
Grainger claims that the best implementations of telematics systems are the examples where businesses have specified what they want to gain from the service before they buy into it - otherwise, it's a fruitless exercise: "The key is to work out what you want to know. If you don't know why you're doing it then you're wasting time and money. It really does come down to what your goal is and what you want to achieve. If you only want to know if everybody got home at the end of a shift then you don't need a complicated system, but if you want to monitor fuel you'll need a more advanced one."
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