Business owners who wouldn't allow an employee to set foot in a worksite without safety gear surprisingly allow them to drive company vehicles without any policies to govern them. If you're a business owner and fit such a description, then it's vital you put a firm company vehicle policy in place. 

If you still provide company vehicles, then you may want to limit the personal use of those vehicles. Bear in mind that for your employees, personal use of the vehicle is considered a taxable non-cash fringe benefit. In other words, there is a tax benefit for the employee if personal use is limited to occasional or "de minimis" personal use, such as stopping during a commute.

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Running a field service business is all about coordination. You must coordinate your services between customer scheduling needs and practical daily routes for your service teams. It makes no sense to send your trucks zig-zagging across the city or spending hours idle only to rush between appointments later when you have more efficient scheduling solutions.

Your fleet management practices have a significant role to play in your business' value chain. With a well-managed fleet, you can attend to customers within the shortest time possible as well as reduce the cost of owning the fleet. 

For optimal productivity, profitability and efficiency, you need to look into all cost-sensitive areas of your business. For instance, a simple replacement of a vehicle nearing the end of its useful life can boost productivity by a large margin. Also, as such assets age, so does the cost of ownership increase considering the increased need for maintenance and an inefficient fuel economy.

Managing a fleet of professional cars is a unique experience shaped by the service and purpose of your fleet. There are many different types of business fleet from personnel transport to truck service fleets and everything in between. Running a fleet entirely of cars includes its own interesting set of challenges and logistical solutions.

The more efficiently you can manage your fleet, the more you'll keep the costs down and profits up for your company. But that's not always an easy goal to meet. Part of efficiently managing a fleet is improving your fleet management system.

The production efficiency standard in the trucking industry is consistently rising. Regardless of how many trucks are in your fleet, traditional fleet management is becoming a more costly pursuit. Tracking drivers, operations, registrations and scheduling can now be organized more effectively through apps. 

The popularity of dedicated fleet services in Charlotte NC is on the rise. That's due in part to the number of successful small businesses making their home in the Charlotte area. Many of these businesses find that they need a fleet of vehicles, but don't have the capital to invest in creating one. That's leading them to seek out dedicated fleet services instead.