Fleet Management Tips from Vehicle Licensing Consultants (VLC)
Keep Your Cleaning and Restoration Fleet Running Smoothly with These Fleet Management Tips
Cleaning and restoration services are in high demand right now, and if you want to maximize the value of your business, it’s critical to keep your cleaning fleet in top condition. With the right fleet management solutions by your side, this becomes much easier – and can even improve your profitability.
How do you make the most of your cleaning vehicle fleet management? Here are a few tips.
Four Ways to Do More With Your Restoration Fleet
1 – Utilize electronic vehicle inspection systems
If your fleet is still relying on drivers/operators to fill out inspection reports on paper, you could be missing out on a lot of critical information. Paperwork can take a long time to file, not to mention being prone to errors. With an electronic inspection system sending data straight to a database, it’s going to be more reliable, and give you instant access to the data for analysis.
2 – Embrace electronic maintenance orders
On the topic of paper being unreliable, this is also true for maintenance orders. It’s far too easy for a problem report to become lost in the shuffle or set aside to be handled and then forgotten about. When maintenance orders and problem reports are electronic, they’ll be in the system, and sending you alerts if they aren’t performed promptly. This reduces downtime and ensures your vehicles are always reliable.
3 – Constantly monitor vehicle performance
Maintenance problems almost always manifest as small problems before they become big problems – often so small they can go unnoticed by drivers. For example, if a vehicle’s gas mileage suddenly drops, the driver probably won’t notice unless it’s extreme. However, if you have a fleet management solution tracking key performance metrics, the analytical systems can spot even minor deviations from the baseline. These deviations point towards problems that should be fixed now to save time and money later.
4 – Accurately track expenses
How accurate are your TCO calculations? Tallying up expenses can be time-consuming and prone to errors if you’re doing things by hand. However, good fleet management systems can quickly calculate every expense related to every vehicle, providing you solid data for TCO – and providing indications of things that could be improved for better profitability.
Fleet Management Solutions
Vehicle Licensing Consultants specialize in helping working fleets run better. If you know your restoration fleet isn’t performing as well as it should, contact us to explore your options in fleet management solutions!