This is a REALLY exciting report, and is the culmination of months of work on top of years of getting ready for this report.
>>> REALLY — It’s A BIG DEAL <<<
This suite of reports will essentially pinpoint your inefficient drivers on an overall as well as a trip-by-trip basis.
Here’s a an early version (the final reports are on the way & will also include an overall vehicle-by-vehicle comparison/summary):
Run the Efficiency Summary Report:
New GPS Insight Trip Efficiency Report
Up comes a graph showing all your drivers’ trips for that period of time (a work week in this case) & how efficient they are relative to both SHORTEST and FASTEST routes which we determine WOULD HAVE BEEN IDEAL:
GPS Insight Trip Efficiency Graph
Then looking at the detail, we pick on the top “most inefficient” driver (sorting on # of unnecessary miles beyond the fastest route from A to B):
GPS Insight Trip Efficiency Detail
Then hovering over an entry, it tells us that the “James – Garmin” vehicle went 34.2 miles, but only needed to go 19.03.
Difference between actual and ideal fastest route
By clicking on the 3 entries, we instantly pull up the actual (pink), shortest (red), and fastest (blue) routes for a visual comparison:
Visual Representation of Driver Inefficiency
In reality, the “turnaround” out of the way is where several of our employees meet to car pool every day:
Reason for inefficient driving is a carpool drop-off
So this behavior is all right, since it saves a lot of miles and cars on the road.
But look at #2 and #3 on the list (and there are countless more inefficient trips):
Driving way out of way (in Purple) to get from A to B
Driving way out of way (in Orange ) to get from A to B vs. fastest/shortest routes in blue & red
These are our employees & our own cars, so it’s not exactly the end of the world that we’re sometimes driving all over the place inefficiently, & we have our reasons.
But if you run this against your fleet, you will find drivers who:
- Get Lost
- Make Wrong Turns
- Intentionally Take the Long Way (padding hours)
- Literally Drive In Circles (and should be probably be fired for fraudulent wasting of fuel/mileage and padding of hours)
This report will be available in late May, and is going to surprise a lot of customers. And probably a lot of drivers too.
It will save our customers a HUGE amount of money on drivers they didn’t know were this inefficient, or were specifically defrauding them of labor hours.
Additionally, it will be available in June as a real-time alert to supervisors as well as drivers to “coach” them on better ways to complete their trips when they do so inefficiently.
Oh, and by the way, on a slow development server, for all 50 of our vehicles for a full work week, that report only took 1/3 of a second to run:
FAST (.36 second) Report
Look forward to it soon!
For more information on our main GPS Fleet Tracking Reports visit our website.
Thanks,
Rob.