Description
FleetMind’s onboard Driver Direction allows you to better plan each truck’s routes to reduce time spent on the road and the number of engine hours per day. Driver Direction optimizes routes to use less fuel and driving time. This is especially important in the roll-off business where routes tend to have more new stops.
Driver Direction automatically provides driving directions to the truck’s next stop based on run sheet data - no driver input is required! It further provides a graphical view of the calls to the driver, and will automatically re-calculate the route when a driver selects an out-of-sequence manual stop.
Driver Direction is designed to provide features similar to those of a GPS-equipped car – specifically, textual and audible driving directions to a driver. However, the FleetMind solution differs from the typical GPS approach in that subsequent locations do not need to be entered by the driver. Ongoing route locations and directions are based on the driver’s schedule and provided automatically. These could be the next stop in a predetermined sequence, or a driver-selected stop should he elect to run his route out of sequence.
Benefits to drivers
- Provides turn-by-turn directions, voice prompts and graphical maps to make navigating easy and intuitive.
- When a driver downloads his route, the system will tell him exactly how to run it. This allows drivers to focus on the core task of driving safely to pick-up locations.
- Quickly re-direct drivers to a helper route to help another driver complete a route to avoid overtime.
- If truck breaks down, the balance of the route can be divided between other drivers, and Driver Direction will quickly convey directions to each.
- If out of sequence stops occur, Driver Direction goes to “proximity” mode, which will automatically get drivers back on the route in the most efficient way.
- In an environment where drivers are unfamiliar with their routes, new to an area, or need to deal with unplanned obstacles, Driver Direction will provide up-to-date and the most route-efficient directions.
- Driver Direction improves overall driver productivity.
Benefits to company:
- Helps improve vehicle resource utilization. You make better use of your fleet by maximizing route productivity and reducing overall mileage.
- Reduces costs related to employee overtime, vehicle use and fuel consumption. You reduce overall mileage, overtime and the time spent planning and implementing daily routes.
- Helps improve driver performance. Drivers can concentrate on driving – not navigating.
- Helps improve customer service by improving response times and ensuring on-time pick-up performance. You can serve more customers without adding to your fleet, respond immediately to same-day requests, reduce overall route times, and improve productivity for both dispatchers and drivers.
- By improving navigation and productivity, Driver Direction creates a more advantageous environment for retaining and recruiting drivers.