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The booming IT industry has brought advancements into other industries including the transportation industry. This convenience can be shown in the form of the current ELD mandates and the use of fleet management tools such as dash cameras. The use of this sort of technology has made filing documents, running service checks, managing driver profiles, communication between dispatchers and drivers and many aspects of a fleet manager’s life better and more efficient. And with current advancements and trends in the market, the average life of the fleet manager right now will look different in just a few years.
The average fleet manager has one of the most important responsibilities of a mobile assets company – optimizing mobile assets and making sure expectations are met for customers, the company and the drivers. The fleet manager constantly works under a tight schedule and relies heavily on accurate data to make good decisions that benefit the fleet and the company.
A fleet manager spends a good amount of their day building and maintaining relationships with drivers. Other than making sure drivers stay satisfied with their fleet (read more about driver satisfaction in this blog article here), it ensures the working environment for drivers is as safe as possible through training, prevention and monitoring driver behavior and road conditions with the help of ELD solutions.
Fleet managers also deal with the legal aspects of a fleet. They spend time making sure the fleet meets all the mandates and regulations as well as making sure compliance is reached to prevent legal issues wherever they go. Once again ELD solutions help with most of these mandates, with softwares updated along with the increasing mandates, ELD solutions provide a one-stop solution to all the legalities for a fleet.
Fleet managers are crucial to having assets arrive and depart on schedule and making sure that the whole process is as smooth as possible. From monitoring driver schedules to calculating fuel consumption to monitoring traffic conditions, fleet managers choose the best solution based on the situation to provide the most efficient service with the least disruptions. All of this is made possible with the use of GPS tracking systems and integrating information using a hub like ELD software.
With growing data comes growing concerns about data security. ELD solutions ensure that the information relayed from vehicles are not tampered with and transfers information in real-time to a protected cloud service. Many of these softwares also focus on developing better security year by year which updates itself regularly to prevent security breaches.
The industry is ever changing and as long as technology continues to advance, telematics will continue to improve and help the transportation industry grow. Advancements such as 5G cellular networks make it easier to address the challenges faced right now while bringing in even better benefits to fleet managers and their work life. Read about the future of transportation in this article here.