How to Track a Mobile Worker Using Your Fleet Management System

There are many professional activities for which a team of people must be absent from their workplace, such as the transport of goods or people. The market offers a multitude of software that uses GPS location to position each person or vehicle on a location map and memorize both their route and the events they perform (stops, loading and unloading, refueling, tolls, breaks, etc.)

Geolocation of a worker
Fleet control and management systems are the ideal applications to fulfill this task in a logistics company, as they allow it to integrate all its mobile resources, tractors, semi-trailers and drivers, and operate bidirectionally with all these elements. In this way, the traffic manager is able to identify the situation of each of the resources, and intercommunicate by offering directions, sending and storing documentation, managing incidents, etc., all thanks to the functions of a complete mobile office for the driver, which is in turn integrated with the fleet control system and the company's ERP.

How a driver and their load are controlled in a fleet management system
The resources linked to a load (tractor, trailer and driver) can be located and are integrated into the fleet management system via the tractor's devices, such as the vehicle's tachograph and the driver's card reader which records working days to manage driving times and other data as an employee, and which continuously sends the data to the fleet control system used in the traffic office.

In addition to the equipment installed in the vehicle, there are services provided to the driver by a mobile application installed on his smartphone which allows him to be informed manually, but in a protocolized manner, of the status of loading, waiting times for loading or unloading, incidents, expenses, travel and service documents, etc.
Furthermore, due to market demands, logistics companies have a varying number of external collaborators or independent contractors who generally do not have the fleet management system devices installed on their tractor or trailer. For this, the mobile application installed on your own phone allows you to integrate seamlessly with the fleet management system of the transport company, providing you with all the logistics services you need to carry out your work and interact with the company.

Features for mobile apps integrated into fleet management
The most common services offered by a mobile driver management application integrated with your fleet management system are messaging with the carrier, business planning, fueling, expense and allowance control, documentation management, navigation to destinations and routes, document scanning and barcode reader, signature collection, remote terminal control, electronic signature, mobile printing, etc.