We recently (sometime Friday) sent our 2,000,000th alert.
This is after checking 1.742 BILLION times for our customers over the years.
Email I receive nightly which shows how many alerts have been processed
Really, the majority of those checks have taken place over the past year or so, since we started making the power of our alerts more known to customers.
Since you can create an alert and let us do the heavy lifting, every minute of every day, this provides what I call “Unattended ROI.”
Remember that with GPS Insight, you can send alerts straight to the drivers themselves, as well as to supervisors.
So if a driver speeds, idles too long, stops too long somewhere he/she shouldn’t be, is using the vehicle off-hours, or out of where they should be (or doing several other things we can monitor with alerts), THAT DRIVER WILL RECEIVE AN INSTANT ALERT PROMPTING THEM TO CORRECT THEIR BEHAVIOR!
This is useful since GPS Insight becomes “the bad guy.” You don’t necessarily need to talk to your drivers yourself — we are the “anonymous” reminder which helps them to know they need to correct their behavior, whether it’s speeding, idling, or not being where they’re supposed to be.
We have sent out Two Million Alerts so far — if you haven’t already set yours up, do so! They’re part of the basic GPS Insight package & unlimited, unlike many competitors’ alerts.
Plus, you can “combine” our alerts to ensure you don’t get false alerts.
Good examples include:
- Sending idling alerts only during business hours and only when the vehicle is outside the maintenance yards, to avoid pestering the driver if work is being performed on the vehicle
- Sending a driver a “what is the holdup?” email/SMS text message whenever they stop for more than 30 minutes at a supplier
- Sending a driver a “is your vehicle being stolen?” alert if it moves late at night and leaves the driver’s home, to avoid waking him up if the spouse needed to move it in from the street or out of the way
- Sending Speeding alerts based on lower thresholds only during night time hours
Alerts are one of the best tools for saving money using GPS Insight. We’re glad we’ve processed almost two billion of them, and have sent over two million out so far!
Thanks,
Rob.
