Dave Evans
VP, Service Operations, Eastern Area - DNA
Diebold Incorporated
Managing your fleet is one thing, maximizing that fleet is
another. As a company with large fleets covering widespread
territories, the leadership team at Diebold, Incorporated realizes
the value of tracking our vehicles. We need to know where our
vehicles are, and perhaps most importantly, where they are not.
So what's the solution? How do we move from merely managing our
fleets to maximizing our fleet performance? The answer is real-time
access to actionable business intelligence we could use to make
smarter, faster, more profitable business decisions. We found that
intelligence with the FleetLocate® information
platform.
We installed FleetLocate units on more than 300 vehicles across
the Carolinas, the Midwest and Texas. Now, more than merely telling
us where our vehicles are, FleetLocate provides real-time
continuous visibility into a whole slew of fleet activity and
driver behaviors: idle time, speeding, hard breaking and
accelerating, fuel consumption, maintenance, route compliance, to
name a few. All areas that cost us big money.
By seeing these activities and behaviors in real-time, we are
able to minimize, prevent and control them - there's your
actionable business intelligence. Just 21 days after installing
FleetLocate, we saw the following dramatic results:
- Approximately 5 percent reduction in fuel usage
- About 3 percent reduction greenhouse gas emission
- Nearly 60 percent improvement in idle time
In addition, we expect to generate more than one million dollars
in annual savings related to:
- Reduced idle time
- Lower insurance premiums
- Improved driver safety and awareness
- More effective vehicle maintenance
- Lower fuel consumption
What an impact! Diebold should see solid return on investment by
the end of our first year using FleetLocate, and that ROI is
expected to continue to improve in the following years. Based on
those numbers, we're now in the process of installing FleetLocate
on our entire fleet of 4,500 vehicles in all 50 states.
FleetLocate performs this kind of ROI modeling for their fleet
industry clients, as part of their collaborative approach to
reaching not only their customers' fleet goals, but also their
business goals. For us, the experience was illuminating, to say the
least.
So before you invest in any telemetrics for your fleet, ask
yourself this question: Do I want to just manage my fleet, or
maximize it? Do I want to spend precious hours and resources wading
through a sea of data that's probably not current or accurate? Or
do I want real-time actionable business intelligence instantly
delivered to me in way I can understand and use to bolster my
bottom line?
The answer was clear to us. And now with FleetLocate, so is the
business intelligence Diebold was looking for.