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Stopped a $300,000 Theft Ring with the Help of Our Vehicle Tracking System

Posted on the 16 April 2012 by Fleetmatics @fleetmatics

Sometimes we cannot even believe the stories that companies using our vehicle tracking system share. Sure, we can run through the benefits of vehicle tracking in our sleep, but some of the benefits our customers experience we had no clue were even possible. Like this one for example…

“We have had FleetMatics’ vehicle tracking system installed in our fleet for more than a year now. Where to begin… the first success story, if you can call it that, was stopping a theft. We noticed inventory discrepancies so began pulling data out of FleetMatics. We discovered very quickly that there was a repetitive location being delivered to that we didn’t show as an active customer..”

Fast forward to the end result, “We caught the employee dropping off inventory using both the Detailed Report and Live Fleet, and stopped a $300,000+ theft ring from continuing.”

“The other examples are much more positive. Our analysis shows that over the last year, using FleetMatics vehicle tracking reports, we have optimized our routes by over 25% which extends savings in fuel and maintenance. We now run about 1000 a day on our fleet where before FleetMatics, our stats showed that was in the neighborhood of 1250 per day. Using the reporting feature, each of our 8 drivers no longer manually reports anything pertaining to daily routes. FleetMatics does everything for them and us! On mileage alone we have cut over 50,000 miles annually at 15mpg + $3.00 gal, which has led to over $10,000 in savings. That’s just a quick saving calculation and doesn’t even include the reduction in costs for all the labor and maintenance on the vehicles.”


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