Driver behavior can significantly impact the efficiency of your fleet vehicles. Poor habits like speeding, aggressive acceleration, harsh braking and idling all contribute to decreased fuel efficiency and increased vehicle wear.
Real-time data from fleet cards provides insights that can help control costs, manage fuel, improve compliance, streamline administration, enhance security, improve reporting and increase overall operational efficiency.
Fleet cards are equipped with purchase controls. These help fleet managers establish spending limits that align with fuel policies. When purchase controls are used effectively, a fuel policy is easier to enforce.
Fleet card data can help fleet managers practice preventative maintenance. This approach to maintenance helps extend the life of fleet vehicles, increases vehicle reliability and reduces vehicle downtime. The result is a more efficient fleet.
The data found in fleet card reports can help with many aspects of fleet management. Using insights from these reports, fleet managers can reduce fuel costs, decrease fuel consumption, and identify ways to run a more efficient fleet.
Fleet cards offer so much more than the convenience of consolidating your fuel spending. Putting the features of a fleet fuel card to work can help reduce spending, streamline expense reporting, improve maintenance management, and help enforce fuel spending policies.
Fleet cards collect real-time data. Using this information, fleet managers gain insights to help them better manage their fleets leading to reduced costs and increased efficiencies.
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