Do you have a way to monitor how safely your fleet is performing waste removal services? When most of your jobs take place in residential neighborhoods, it is especially important to have a solution in place to ensure safety to your customers. Many waste collection fleets are turning to GPS tracking technology to help ensure safety regulations are being upheld by monitoring driver behavior, eliminating safety risks, and improving maintenance.
Monitor driver behavior with GPS tracking
It is important to make sure your garbage trucks are being operated safely in residential neighborhoods – there are likely school zones, vehicles reversing out of driveways, and you never know if there may be kids playing in the street just around the corner. Using a GPS tracking solution to reduce speeding, rapid acceleration, and harsh breaking will prevent your trucks from getting into accidents and other dangerous situations.
Monitor how fast waste truck drivers are moving in residential areas
GPS tracking solutions will help your team monitor unsafe driving behaviors and take immediate action with automated alerts. To prevent trucks from speeding in neighborhoods, utilizing a posted speed alert will notify the fleet manager and driver if their truck surpasses the posted speed limit, including school zones. Sending speeding alerts to drivers as well as fleet managers will help you take proactive action against violations while they are happening to improve safety.
Monitoring driver behavior will not only increase fleet safety, controlling speeding, idle time, and miles driven will also help your waste collection business reduce fuel costs.
Monitor PTO on back-up beepers
Reversing garbage trucks is another safety no-no for many waste collection fleets, and is almost impossible to enforce without GPS tracking. Fleet managers can now use a GPS tracking solution to hold drivers accountable by monitoring PTO on a garbage truck’s back-up beeper, which is used to indicate their vehicle will be moving in reverse.
Anytime the back-up beeper is engaged, a switch-based alert can be sent to management and drivers with a note instructing them to take their vehicle out of reverse immediately.
Improve vehicle maintenance
Keeping up with maintenance will not only increase the lifespan of your trucks, it will also prevent dangerous situations like blowing a tire or breaking down on the way to a customer site.
View all upcoming or overdue maintenance
Waste collection fleets use GPS tracking to stay up-to-date with maintenance by scheduling reminders for all types of service needed. Fleet and service managers can view all upcoming or overdue maintenance to ensure no important services are missed.
To learn more about how GPS tracking technology can increase safety for your waste collection fleet, contact GPS Insight or schedule a free demo!
