If you did not trust your employees, they wouldn't still be working for you, right? You know where they are and what they are doing. We understand that. And we respect that.
But our customers are doing much more with this technology than monitoring employee habits to save money. They are using this technolgy to decrease costs, increase revenue, expand their operation, and take control of their business.
Are you positive your drivers are 100% efficient? Even 90% efficient?
We often here the following statements:
"My guys have been with me for 10 years."
"I know where my guys are."
"My drivers only run local routes."
"I only have a few trucks."
"My drive to the same site everyday."
The bottom line is: If you have 1 company vehicle, you are losing money. If you have 1 employee, you are losing money. Let's face it, human nature is to do less, if you can get away with it, or if there is no particular incentive to do more, you'll take shortcuts were you can.
Maybe you stop on a personal errand during working hours, in the company vehicle. It's only a 15 minute errand, and 2 miles out of the way. No big deal, right? Do the math . . . what are you losing in fuel, wear-and-tear, and payroll?
Gallup:
According to Gallup®, "
U.S. Workers Say They Waste About an Hour at Work Each Day -
Say their co-workers are unproductive about an hour and a half daily."
America Online and Salary.com:
"According to a Web survey by America Online and Salary.com, the average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per day, not counting lunch. That's far more time than employers expect. Over the course of a year (and even after accounting for time employers expect to be wasted), that adds up to $759 billion on salaries for which companies receive no apparent benefit."
Inc.com:
"The 2007 Wasting Time Survey by Salary.com, which asked 2,000 employees across all job levels about how they spend their working hours, found employees waste an average of 1.7 hours of an 8.5-hour workday. This represents a decline from last year, when workers reported wasting an average of 1.89 hours each day.
In this year's survey, 20- to 29-year-olds said they waste an average of 2.1 hours per day. The amount of idle time drops off as employees grow older, with the 30-39 age group reporting 1.9 hours of the day wasted and 40- to 49-year-olds reporting 1.4 hours."
What sort of ROI can you expect? I believe you will offset most of the monthly service fee, or more, with a discount to your auto insurance premium on each vehicle. You will recoup the cost of the unit through fuel savings, tighter routes, more accurate timecards, less idling, less vehicle maintenance, more jobs, more clients, and better efficiency.
Imagine that you can shave just 15 minutes, per day, per employee off of their time card. And imagine that every 60 minutes of idling (in a regular pickup or car) burns 1 gallon of gas. And let's assume that the guys idle each vehicle an extra 60 minutes per week. In 20 working days, with 5 trucks and 5 employees, you would save $368 on Payroll (at $12/hr + Payroll expenses) and $90 in gas (at $4.50 / gal), so $458 per month.
The bottom line here is, the hardware could potentially pay for itself in less than 5 mos. After that, your business just got a cash-flow infusion. These numbers are very conservative, and they don't take in to account an increase in productivity.
Not only will this technology allow you to get more jobs, reduce fuel costs, eliminate customer (and employee) disputes, and reduce payroll expenses, but will also allow you to reward those who are doing a great job, while eliminating the weak links in your organization.
