’s demystify this.
The amount of information you need to manage depends on the size of your fleet. So, if you have a fleet of hundreds of drivers, you will need to review a huge amount of data.
Let’s understand this better with numbers.
If you set each GPS device to update every three minutes, each one will update 20 times per hour.
That is 480 times every day. And, if you have 1,000 vehicles to manage, then you need to review almost half a million updates every day!
So, the question is how can you manage such a huge amount of information?
And… the answer is that you can do it with vehicle route planning software.
Fleet route planning software comes with tools that can help you review the data that matters to you. And, not all the information.
You can set specific alerts to monitor whether your drivers are following the road rules. And, if they do not, you will receive an instant email in real time.
Certainly, monitoring a large number of vehicles could generate a huge number of alerts. But, the best part is that routing software also comes with a dashboard feature.
This helps you easily track all the drivers on how they are performing on the road from a single place.
Managing a geographically-dispersed team is a real pain. This is especially true if your drivers operate internationally or across different states. It would then be pretty challenging to locate them and communicate with them.
You may need to zoom in and out endlessly and scroll across a map to locate a specific vehicle.
But, route optimization software is a savior here as well.
It comes with advanced mapping technology. And this helps you get a wide-angle view of your entire fleet.
You can zoom in on a specific vehicle or driver with whom you want to communicate. It does not matter where they are. And, you can do all this within seconds!
It even helps you get a real-time view of your drivers’ exact locations at any given moment (with proper tracking features).
Moreover, some routing optimization software comes with time zone and international language support. So, you can always view and share the information in any language you want.
When you have a lot of vehicles to manage, finding specific data can be difficult.
For example, finding specific data about a vehicle or driver is like finding a needle in a stack of needles! This will result in frustration and wasted time.
But, route scheduling software can simplify this too.
It comes with a dashboard that offers powerful search options. It can help you find a specific piece of information in a few moments.
You can also tag drivers, vehicles, and teams with meaningful labels. This will help you create more manageable groups to access the information even quicker.
The goal of most businesses is to grow. And, some enterprises experience rapid growth, especially when they acquire new businesses or break into new markets.
But, this also often creates more problems. That is because managing a growing number of drivers and vehicles is not easy.
But, routing software can simplify this problem.
A cloud-based routing optimization software can handle as many drivers as you need. So, it can handle an unlimited amount of vehicles and drivers.
You are also not restricted in terms of the amount of data that needs to be generated.
A customer’s demands can change at any time. It can even make your entire management process a mess.
So, what do you do when a customer wants same day delivery?
How would you manage such a delivery when you have plenty of drivers to choose from?
This is not a problem with a fleet route planning software.
It can automatically plan routes for multiple drivers at once. You just need to add the destination and the software will do the complex calculation for you. It will then let you know which driver should take the package.
You may plan well-optimized routes, but, sometimes your drivers don’t or can’t follow them.
If that happens, you can expect delays in the delivery times and possibly annoying your customers. This is clearly not good for your business.
So, you need a tracking solution to stay up to date with every activity of your drivers. That’s what dynamic route optimization™ software can help you with.
Falling behind schedule and more.
In this way, you can take the necessary steps to improve your driver’s productivity. And, if needed, you can replace the timewasters.
So, how do you manage multiple drivers? Do you use routing optimization software? Please share your experience or leave comments below and thanks for reading!
UVa Sustainability has recently launched its campaign for students to individually pledge their commitment to "consider the social, economic, and environmental impacts of their habits and to explore ways to live more sustainably during their time here at U.Va. and beyond." But what, may I ask, is the University pledging?
While UVa Sustainability is urging us to consider our individual actions, there is no better time than the present to ask our own University to take a look in the mirror. What would they see? An Academical Village fueled by our very own high-pollution coal plant. Although we would all like to consider our school a leader in technological innovation and sustainability, we have fallen behind in one of the most critical environmental issues: that of clean energy.
Since September, the UVa Beyond Coal coalition has collected over 1,200 petitions from students supporting one sustainable mission: getting the University off of coal power. The petitions will be presented to President Teresa A. Sullivan at the end of the semester in hopes that our she will listen to students' wishes and publicly announce the University's plan to convert to clean energy as many other universities have already begun to do.
Beyond Coal will host a rally Wednesday, Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. in front of Peabody Hall to give students a chance to call on the University to make its own sustainability pledge and commit to clean power. The time has come for the University to recognize the hypocrisy in goading students to live sustainably when it fails to match the pledge of the student body by continuing to rely on dirty energy.My friend and I had a few months ago and our first one was with a hot chick.  She is very happy with the project and does her job very well. 
SETTING: A bluff overlooking Plymouth Harbor. Backdrop shows a snow-covered forest. Narrator stands to one side. Other 3 Indians are lying on a rock, watching the Pilgrims land.
BEAR PAW: Look how the big water sparkles - wide and blue and empty.
HUNGRY WOLF: I wish a sea bird would come. I'd like to shoot it. I'm hungry.
EAGLE EYE: I see something. It's a sea bird. It has wings – four, no, five wings, with a giant canoe beneath it.
HUNGRY WOLF: A canoe big enough for our whole tribe.
EAGLE EYE: It's slowing down. Now it's going to stop beside the big rock on the beach. Strange people are stepping out of the canoe with wings.
BEAR PAW: Palefaces.
HUNGRY WOLF: The braves have hair on their chins like goats.
BEAR PAW: Did you see that? The stick made a boom and smoke came from the end.
EAGLE EYE: (Shocked) The deer lies dead at the feet of the hunter.
ALL: (Looking amazed) Big medicine.
HUNGRY WOLF: Even a bow and arrow cannot do such marvelous things. I wish I had a thunder stick like that.
BEAR PAW: So do I. Let's go down and trade our bows and arrows for their thunder sticks.
John: Good friend, Miles, it seems a shame. All this forest and no game.
Miles: But John, my friend, we can't go back, until we've something in our sack.
John: Tis true, friend Miles, it would seem rude. We can't go ‘til we find food.
Miles: Look you there, John, if you'd rather me thinks I see a turkey feather.
Nod: Spare our lives for we are meek and we will find you what you seek.
Nod: (points to each as he gives their names) That's Winkum, Blinkum, and Nod I be.
John: Have no fear we will not fire you see, its food that we desire.
Blinkum: To find-um food we can't be beat. Pale face like to have 'em meat.
Miles: O yes, but where? Your forest lacks. Why, we can't even find the tracks.
Winkum: You not look in proper space. Only Indians find-um place.
John: I'm sure we would feel rather perky, if only we could find a turkey.
Blinkum: We no eat turkey for a feast, he tough old bird to say the least.
Miles: Not eat turkey? Why how strange. What do you eat to make the change?
Turkey: (enters looking smug) Our feathered mom, she raised no fools. She sent us all to turkey school. Yes, you’re right, I’m felling perky. I got them all to eat beef jerky.
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Beginnings long ago.
Group: When I was young, I rang a lot!
#2: I roared with rage when Parliament forbade our people making iron and steel, my lungs were breaking