Comparing fleet management platforms means asking how your managing skills will be enhanced with various tools. Being a fleet manager is always knowing what’s going on with your drivers. Alerts help you do that, and here, Cartrack will give you answers to your questions about which alerts are the most important and which save you the most money.
The top alerts every fleet system should have are collision alerts, fuel monitoring alerts, and driver monitoring alerts. When you combine these three, you’ll have a comprehensive management system that protects your vehicles, your drivers, and one of your biggest expenses: FUEL.
The most important fleet management aspect is safety. Safety affects every aspect of your fleet, because it looks at driver behaviour, asset protection, and brand reputation. When you direct your alerts to safety, you’ll start seeing a massive return on investment through staff retention, brand reputation, asset preservation, and general cost reduction.
The five factors you, as a fleet manager, should examine before purchasing a fleet of vehicles are:
Cartrack offers around 9 different fleet management alerts:
The biggest challenges facing fleet management today are fuel costs and vehicle accidents. Alerts help solve both of these in different ways. First, fuel alerts let you know in real time when there’s a discrepancy in fuel levels, while idling alerts allow you to act on prolonged idling. Collision alerts keep your drivers safer by alerting you to an accident, and driver behaviour monitoring alerts help you to prevent collisions proactively.
Yes, Cartrack offers AI-powered vehicle maintenance alerts which read the diagnostics of your vehicle and predict when a component needs maintenance or replacement. It’s so intuitive that it’ll even automatically schedule your vehicle service needs ahead of time.
Many of the alerts Cartrack offers are part-and-parcel of the software we provide you. If you want to activate alerts like SMS notifications or email alerts, this won’t cost you extra—it’s simply a setting you can configure or talk to us about.
If you don’t have a specific department within your company to manage vehicles (and you’re too busy to do it yourself), Cartrack offers a telematics bureau that does it on your behalf. Whether it’s getting notified of problems, scheduling maintenance, or identifying dangerous driver behaviour, we’re available to manage everything for you; and only notify you of things you ask us to.
Yes, the alerts often come as part of the software package you’ve opted for from Cartrack. For example, if you’ve selected fuel management software, the alerts you’ll get will be fuel-related. If you only want cargo alerts, we’ll set it up so you’re not bothered by other alerts.
Reminders are usually scheduled events that need to take place in the near future. Cartrack offers several reminders of events that are sitting in your calendar, like a truck service or coaching session. An alert is a real-time notification that lets you know that SOMETHING HAS JUST HAPPENED and your attention to it is required.
Yes, you can opt to have alerts deactivated if you really need to. This won’t halt Cartrack’s service in a particular area; it’ll just stop the messages from coming through to your devices.
Yes, the alerts you receive will increase if your fleet grows larger—as long as you activate the particular service on those vehicles too. For instance, if you have theft alerts activated and you purchase two new vehicles, Cartrack will need to install tracking devices on those two new vehicles to ensure they’re protected in the same way your other vehicles are.
