Fleet Asset Tracking Offers a Bird’s-Eye View

Every day your fleet has hundreds or thousands of trucks out on the road. Without a good way to view their locations and statuses, you – and your customers – end up being in the dark on your loads, setting the stage for missed deadlines, unmet expectations, and a lack of transparency. 

Proper asset tracking allows you to make the small adjustments you need to stay productive. It also helps you respond to events, keep your drivers safer, and ensure your jobs stay on track. Today’s top telematics tools offer some cutting-edge features that make it easier and more efficient than ever to stay fully aware of your fleet’s assets in real-time.

How a Fleet Asset Tracking Helps

Platform Science recently released its real-time PS Asset Tracking, outfitted with numerous tools that help fleet managers stay fully informed about the location and statuses of all fleet assets. This pinpoint accuracy helps managers improve job efficiency and better communicate with customers on delivery expectations.

See the Location of Every Truck 

As a fleet or driver manager, the drivers you are responsible for are often spread throughout the country and have various driving statuses. It is essential that you know where your drivers are so that you can update your teams – as well as your customers – on the location of your loads and approximate ETAs. With PS Asset Tracking, you can see all of your trucks and drivers on a map or a table view. You also can choose to see all of your drivers in a single view or zoom into clusters of drivers to drill down to any single driver for more specific information. These overarching and granular views deliver the most complete understanding of the fleet possible.

Complete Information in a Single Pane of Glass

While seeing the location of all drivers is helpful, managers really need access to details about each individual driver. Rather than wasting time and monitor space navigating between multiple tabs, programs, and views, PS Asset Tracking offers complete insight into each truck in a single pane of glass view. At a glance, you can see the driver’s duty status (color-coded with green for driving, blue for idling, and gray for ignition off), the driver's heading, and even the asset ID. 

Additionally, you can select a single driver to pull up a side panel displaying more details such as lat/long coordinates, make/model, odometer, engine hours, asset ID, and driver ID. You can then jump immediately to the asset history, vehicle profile, or driver profile, including their daily HOS logs. With all this information available to you in a single view, you’re saving time and headaches navigating through multiple tabs and programs.

Effortless Searching and Filtering 

Seeing your entire fleet on a map or table view can sometimes be overwhelming. PS Asset Tracking helps you battle the data deluge by allowing you to easily zero in on exactly what you are looking for with powerful search and filter features within the map and table view. 

For example, you can filter by groups, driving status, or the make/model to view only the assets that matter to you at that moment. This reduces detective work and wasted time on assets not currently in-use or not applicable to your task. Additionally, the filter features allow you to search for a specific asset and snap your view directly onto that truck; no more scouring the map or table searching for that particular asset.

Find Trucks Closest to Another Truck or Location

Asset tracking is also an essential tool in responding to on-road events. When a load has an issue, such as a breakdown, fleet managers need to quickly solve that problem by dispatching another driver to ensure that the load gets delivered as quickly as possible. Sitting on the phone and tracking down drivers to determine who is the closest is not a great use of time. 

PS Asset Tracking instead allows managers to pull up their asset maps, quickly locate the truck that needs help with a load, and then instantly see in real time what trucks are currently closeby. You can expand your view of nearby trucks to a 10-, 25-, 50- or 100-mile radius of your disabled truck to see all available trucks in the area. Once you have that information, you can reroute the nearest driver to complete that load as quickly as possible.

Improved Visibility for Increased Efficiency

In a business where time is money, removing even the smallest time-wasters improves efficiency over time. Fleet managers today can skip the hours wasted on the phone tracking down assets and instead simply view a real-time display of all trucks on the road. This increased situational awareness means better decision-making, improved emergency response, and more accurate expectation-setting for customers and team members alike.

‍To learn more about PS Asset Tracking and our full suite of fleet management tools, contact Platform Science today.