What is fleet management?
2019-07-09T22:00:00.000Z
Fleet management covers all tasks related to the use and maintenance of a fleet of vehicles. By extension, it often includes driver management.
The term fleet management is used to plan, monitor and control a fleet of vehicles, in order to make the fleet more flexible and can be used efficiently. This should allow it to be used in an optimal way in order to reduce costs.
The vehicles are the central element of the fleet management. Their management implies various constraints: technical (material, security, technical control,...), administrative (vehicle and driver documents,...) and logistic (vehicle supply).
Fleet management comes down to three major components:
Cost management and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) control
Control of maintenance and upkeep
The operation of the fleet
Whatever the sector of activity of the company, fleet management is practiced to fulfill the same main objectives:
Save time and stay in control of your vehicles
Automate and simplify fleet management processes
Spend less time managing and more time achieving your goals
Make the right decisions
Improve your performance
Increase employee productivity
Increase individual safety
Control your fleet's
accident rate Moderate fuel consumption
Reduce fleet downtime
There is no reasonable reason not to use fleet software, even for the smallest ones. The most common argument is that fleet software should be supposedly expensive and complicated. However, software can free managers from all the worries of daily management, as long as it is an integrated system that allows to centralize all the information related to the activity, and therefore save all the time wasted by going through different applications and spreadsheets while increasing the productivity of your employees.