We have begun work on some new graph-based reports to help our customers quantify their return on investment. Since April of last year, we have been crunching and saving every customer’s data to help provide long term trend reports such as this.
This is a large, almost 1000 truck customer, and this graph completes in 1/4 second:
This particular customer doesn’t have much of an idling problem. They started around 13%, dropped to 4% average, and have risen back up slightly most likely due to both weather & the fact that management may have stopped looking so much at their numbers.
However, this customer has been rolling out vehicles for 3 or 4 months now, and we realized that certain divisions might see a decrease in idling due to usage, but brand new vehicles with poor idling habits would offset that.
So the next iteration of this graph will be to show the data based on how many weeks/months each unit has had GPS installed.
e.g. this will answer the question “How much were we able to decrease idling from week 1 to week 12?” — this is a big savings and helps our customers to justify moving forward after a small trial. Additionally, we will have similar reports for fuel consumption, speeding, off-hours/weekend usage, and total miles driven, moving forward.
Better yet, since we have customer data from over a thousand customers and over 12,000 vehicles, we can establish industry-specific averages and help our customers compare themselves to that average to see how they perform. We can do the same by state or region.
In a nutshell, we can help companies to determne not only how well they have been able to curb wasteful behavior in the first several months using GPS Insight, but also how they compare to the averages in various industries, regions, or overall.
Here is a nice success story:
In a previous blog article, we showed a large customer’s cost savings after emailing their drivers any time they idled longer than 7 minutes.
Here is that data, and in the first 2 months, with diesel at $5 per gallon, they saved 18,000 & 22,000 gallons, for a $200,000 2 month savings by properly utilizing GPS Insight.
Conservatively, their organization has achieved a 500% return on their GPS tracking investment with GPS Insight when considering fuel savings, wear and tear, improved dispatch and delivery efficiency, identification of unauthorized usage and theft, and recovery of stolen vehicles (and some arrests too). Now we have the graphs to help prove some of that.
Rob.
February 22nd, 2009 3:39 pm
I just realized as I read this article that it has been 10 years almost to the day since I ran my first ‘live’ tracking demo for a c-level exec. In one way it is a shame it has taken this long for real reports like this to come ‘out of the box’ with a tracking system:
This looks like a real step forward. Hat’s off.