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Fleet management companies use innovative technologies like GPS, AI, fuel monitoring sensors, etc. to provide advanced fleet management solutions to businesses in different industries and help them tackle their fleet’s challenges. It’s a major investment for businesses, yet a necessary one for success, especially in Singapore’s competitive market. 

But wait, which fleet management company is the best provider for your fleet? We’ve got all the answers below.

In this article, you will:

  • Get a guide on what to look for from your next fleet management provider
  • Understand essential fleet management features and more advanced tech and innovations
  • Discover Cartrack’s fleet management solutions and see why our partner companies love us
  • Dive into Cartrack’s fleet management solutions with industry-specific insights
  • Uncover how Cartrack helps businesses tackle fleet management challenges

Choosing the best provider for your fleet: What to look for?

Businesses have reported significant returns on investment by integrating fleet management software to optimise their fleet. Fleet management solutions can increase fuel savings, improve fleet compliance and safety, address delivery delays and ensure on-time delivery, improve productivity, and ultimately increase your fleet’s efficiency.

To ensure you’re with the best provider for your fleet, here are the essential and more advanced features and services that come with fleet management that you should look forward to.

The 4 essential fleet management features

Fleet management for business, like art, is not a luxury but an essential no matter the industry. Here are 4 essential features and services of fleet management: 

1. GPS vehicle tracking

GPS tracking systems use the Global Navigation Satellite System network to track fleet vehicle location and speed. Digital fleet management, as we know it, begins with this seemingly simple technology. Today, people often underestimate the power of GPS technology, but fleet management providers know that this is the key to optimising fleets. 

With GPS vehicle tracking, businesses gain: 

  • Real-time location tracking of their fleet vehicles.
  • Ability to monitor their vehicle movements, delays, stops, and driver’s routes.
  • Alerts and notifications for unwanted driver behaviour like speeding, or unauthorised vehicle use.

2. Driver behaviour and performance monitoring

The introduction of GPS tracking for individual and business use allowed fleet managers to track driver performance and activity too. Since the mid-2000s, businesses have used GPS tracking to monitor additional driver performance, such as harsh braking, excessive acceleration, and cornering, for improved driver safety.

Fleet providers monitor driver behaviour and performance for: 

  • Increased driver performance and productivity.
  • Improved driver safety and compliance through coaching and feedback.
  • Reduced operational costs.

3. Real-time fleet updates

Fleet notifications provide real-time updates on vehicle location, driver behaviour, and other fleet activities through instant notifications to drivers and fleet managers. This increased visibility improves the communication between managers and drivers in real time. 

Instant real-time updates help businesses: 

  • Enhance fleet safety by getting proactive about driver safety.
  • Address fleet problems early and prevent costly vehicle breakdowns and repairs.
  • Keep up with safety and compliance in fleets.

4. Fuel management

Fleet management providers in Singapore provide a range of fuel monitoring software compatible with different types of fuel sensors, that offer a range of features, including fuel consumption monitoring, reporting, and route optimisation for fuel. 

With these fuel management tools and technologies, businesses can: 

  • Reduce their fleet’s fuel costs and overall operational costs.
  • Improve their fleet’s ecofriendliness.
  • Ensure fleet compliance with environmental legislation in Singapore.

These four essential fleet management features work behind the scenes of fleet management companies, helping businesses improve their fleet’s performance for years. 

However, newer tech and software innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), sensor monitoring, and other tools have enhanced the software services provided by fleet management companies, optimising these four essential fleet management features and providing even more advanced solutions to businesses.

Let's take a closer look at these innovations in fleet management. 

More advanced solutions for fleet management

Advanced data analysis and development in the Internet of Things (IoT), automation, and AI innovation help fleet management companies like Cartrack Singapore offer even more advanced fleet management solutions for businesses. 

Some of these advanced solutions include:

1. Temperature monitoring: 

This process involves installing wireless temperature and humidity sensors in your fleet vehicles and trailers to monitor temperature fluctuations and ensure that optimal conditions when transporting your goods.

2. Job management

Fleet managers can easily assign jobs, tasks, and vehicles to specific drivers and track job progress in real time. They can also automate this process as necessary for even more efficient job assignments. 

3. Cost management and accounting software

An integrated financial management system can help fleet managers track and control fleet-related costs, including fuel costs, maintenance and repair costs, and other administrative costs.

4. Vehicle health monitoring

Vehicle breakdowns and poor maintenance can set your business back, but with vehicle health monitoring, you can collect data on your engine's health, tyre pressure, battery health, and vehicle fuel levels.

5. Video recording and streaming devices.

Internal and external video cameras installed in your fleet assist with even better fleet, driver, and cargo monitoring for security. 

The strategy for choosing the best provider for your fleet is selecting the fleet management company with the most advanced solutions designed to address your fleet’s challenges such as:

  • Vehicle tracking
  • Driver monitoring
  • Fleet fuel management
  • Fleet cost management
  • Safety and compliance
  • Vehicle management
  • Fleet productivity

But you don’t have to look very far to find the best provider for your fleet. Cartrack is a leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) for fleet management in over 23 different countries. With continuous innovations and the development of AI and data analytics tools customised to your industry and unique business needs.

When you’re ready to choose the best provider for your fleet, choose Cartrack Singapore. 

What Makes Cartrack’s fleet management the best?

Over the last 20 years, we’ve strived to develop the most innovative fleet management solutions for SMEs and MNCs in Singapore looking to scale their businesses and optimise their fleet’s performance.

Our affordable all-in-one fleet management solution makes it easier for businesses of any size to take care of every part of their fleet management, from tracking vehicles to monitoring stationary assets, managing drivers and task progress, as well as accounting for every fleet cost. Our brand reputation and client reviews beam with positive feedback, because we successfully help clients gain an ROI on their fleets with fleet management. One of the best things about our fleet management software is that it is customisable to your fleet’s needs.

But let’s not just tell you about it; let’s show you through Cartrack case studies! Get insights into how our fleet software has been used in different industries and the business needs we help our clients with globally. 

Choosing the best provider for your business

Here are a few ways that we’ve provided fleet management solutions for businesses in the field service, construction, security, healthcare, and logistics industries in Singapore. 

Fleet management in the construction industry

Island Concrete was established in 1970 and is one of the oldest and largest ready-mixed concrete suppliers in Singapore today. To meet the high delivery standard and service level demanded in the industry, Island Concrete required a system to help them track their concrete mixers that arrived or departed from various job sites, monitor drivers, and maintain good customer relationships. 

With Cartrack’s GPS tracking and fleet management software, Island Concrete:

  • Improved on-time delivery to customers: by tracking and monitoring their concrete mixers and drivers en route and communicating delays.
  • Accurately report daily vehicle activity: by setting virtual boundaries with the geofence feature, they can see where they offload cement and detect any unauthorised or fraudulent offloading.
  • Improved fleet productivity: by tracking vehicle condition, and hours worked, managers can avoid vehicle downtime

“We are extremely pleased that Cartrack’s Fleet Management gives us the fleet insights we need to ensure effective dispatch of ready-mixed concrete that’s delivered on time.” Goh GJ, Senior Operation Manager | Island Concrete 

Fleet management in the security industry

Starburst Engineering designs and engineers security systems for law enforcement, military, and security agencies in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. They have a long track record and reputation for providing timely delivery of quality products that meet customers' specifications. To maintain their positive reputation and ensure their fleet and employee productivity, they needed a system that provides actionable insights into vehicle activity and use, as well as employee productivity, to improve and optimise their fleet’s performance.

Cartrack’s fleet management software helped Starburst Engineering:

  • Improve driver accountability: Managers can better monitor fleet staff and drivers, and receive accurate vehicle use reports using Driver ID tags that prevent drivers from unauthorised vehicle use.
  • Improve fuel cost management: With installed fuel sensors, Starburst accurately compares fuel receipts and fuel card transactions to prevent and address fuel theft or fraud.
  • Accurate vehicle tracking: Managers gain a complete map overview of their fleet and drivers, and receive driver and vehicle maintenance notifications for better fleet management.

Starburst Engineering’s spokesperson had this to say about Cartrack:

"I am grateful for the solutions and services provided by Cartrack. The Cartrack app, together with the driver's identification and fuel sensor, allows my operation team to better manage our vehicle fleets as well as staff performance. I am happy to recommend Cartrack's solution and look forward to using your company's services in years to come."

Cartrack’s fleet management in logistics

Richland is a leading logistics solution provider that caters to customers in various sectors in the Southeast Asia region, including technology, petrochemicals, consumer goods, manufacturing, oil and gas, and freight forwarding. In one month, they fulfil over 40,000 deliveries. To provide the best logistics services, RichLand needed a software system that could provide them with updated fleet and driver information so they could keep up with deliveries and ensure on-time-in-full delivery for all their customers. 

Our fleet software helped RichLand Logistics:

  • Ensure on-time-in-full delivery: RichLand can better track drivers and delivery progress and communicate and rectify delivery delays to manage customer experience.
  • Improve driver behaviour: RichLand eliminated poor driver behaviour such as speeding, harsh braking, and idling that reflected badly on the company to maintain and build a positive brand reputation.
  • Improve fleet fuel efficiency: With Cartrack’s onboard fuel sensors, RichLand can make intelligent business decisions to improve its fleet’s fuel consumption.

The Head of QHSSE, Fleet Management and Procurement, Franki Koh, had this to say about our fleet management system. 

“Cartrack's fleet management system provides us with automatic updates on fleet information that helps us make intelligent business decisions to decrease operational costs and maintain our service levels”

So what does your business need from a fleet management provider? No matter the industry or fleet size, Cartrack is ready to help you tackle your fleet challenges, and help you optimise your fleet.

Choose Cartrack as your fleet management provider

Getting the best provider for your fleet is essential for your business's success, but deciding which fleet management company to go for can get a little bit tricky. 

So we’ve made it a little simpler for you, choose Cartrack. 

Contact us here for even more reasons why we’re the best choice for your fleet company.

FAQs: Choosing the best fleet management provider for your fleet

  1. How do I choose a fleet management company?
    When choosing a fleet management company here are a few qualities you should consider:
  • A fleet company with a solution-centric approach to your fleet management challenges.
  • Whether the company offers training support on the fleet management platform.
  • Whether the company continuously develops products and software services.
  • The reputation and reliability of the company according to its customers and partner businesses.
  • The total cost of ownership (TCO) and the return on investment (ROI) from the fleet management software.
  1. What is the most important aspect of fleet management?
    One of the most important aspects of fleet management is driver management and safety, managing your drivers properly helps ensure your fleet’s productivity, profitability, and safety, and mitigates risks while protecting your customer's satisfaction and business reputation.
  1. What is effective fleet management?
    Effective fleet management involves strategically using technology to tackle your fleet’s challenges and boost profitability and productivity. 
  1. What is the fleet management strategy?
    A fleet management strategy is a clear plan that outlines how your company will manage its fleet vehicles and drivers to ensure productivity and profitability. A fleet strategy should align with your business's broader objectives.

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