At the beginning of each year, most fleet managers take the time to set new year resolutions for small to mid-sized fleets and whatever business or nonprofit is supported by that fleet. Regardless of the work your fleet performs, the new year is the ideal time of year to make some business new year resolutions. Here are our top 5 picks for resolutions that should be on your list for 2018:
Business New Year Resolutions 1: Resolve to implement route planning software for more efficient routing.
Efficient routing that comes from using route planning software is one of the easiest ways to reduce operating costs and improve productivity and customer satisfaction. The best way to deploy more efficient routing is to add route planning software to your fleet operations. For small to mid-sized fleets, RouteSavvy is one of the most affordable routing software tools on the market today, and it reaps big rewards with savings in time and operating costs.
Business New Year Resolutions 2: Resolve to reduce overtime labor costs.
When drivers have to work overtime to get the deliveries, pick-ups, or service calls completed, it results in higher labor costs. If reducing overtime labor costs is on the agenda for the new year, then route planning software will help accomplish this goal. Route planning software allows drivers to handle more calls, deliveries, or pick-ups in the course of the normal work day. In doing so, it reduces the amount of overtime that drivers have to put in to get the job done. This, in turn, reduces overtime labor costs.
Business New Year Resolutions 3: Resolve to reduce the fuel spend.
It seems that every fuel spend research study completed since the dawn of time comes up with the same statistic year after year: fuel costs are 60% of a fleet’s operating costs. So it stands to reason that reducing miles driven because of more efficient routing will help reduce a small to mid-sized fleet’s fuel spend.
Business New Year Resolutions 4: Resolve to make customers happier.
It’s more cost-effective to KEEP an existing customer than to do the work to get a new customer. Efficient routing leads to arriving on time or early. That typically makes customers really happy.
Business New Year Resolutions 5: Resolve to help the planet by reducing my carbon emissions.
When route planning software tools like RouteSavvy are deployed, the reduction in miles driven (from more efficient routing) reduces the amount of carbon emissions your fleet is adding to the atmosphere. If you want to do your part to combat global warming and climate change, then route planning software is the tool that will help you reduce your carbon footprint and help Mother Earth.
If any of these resolutions are on your list for the new year, then route planning software tools like RouteSavvy are an investment that you should consider for the new year.
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