Vehicles are a vital part of modern business. There are hundreds of industries and sub-industries that involve driving to and from customer locations and worksites. Then factor in regional managers who travel from location to location, C-level managers with company cars, driving around visiting clients, and road-based business trips.

5) Get Feedback and Ideas from Every Team Member

Many managers get into the headspace of thinking that they are the only source of innovation and must bring in productivity methods from the outside. However, both your office staff and your field technicians have a great perspective on how to eliminate inefficiencies because they work closely with the existing system every day.

Running a field service business successfully is a marvel of coordination, logistics, and teamwork. The office team manages the customers and books the work orders, the garage team keeps the vehicles in good condition and ready to go, and your technicians are responsible for everything in-between leaving the facility and coming back at the end of the day. 

Managing a corporate fleet of vehicles isn't like managing a delivery route, long-haul trucking, or even being the headquarters of a taxi service. Vehicles that are used by big businesses for internal corporate purposes are usually ferrying execs around, taking traveling employees to and from the airport, or serving as an in-house town car service for highly valued clients.

Dashboard cameras, casually known as dash cams, are an amazing new addition to every driving industry and are quickly becoming a staple of modern fleet management. From truckers to delivery drivers to corporate transportation fleets, dash cams add an extra layer of accountability and accident recording that have already saved many fleet drivers from scams and falsified accident reports. 

Those of you working in the home services industry have a good chance of facing numerous challenges in maintaining your fleet of vehicles. As you expand your reach beyond just a city and into multiple cities (or across state lines), managing those vehicles can start to become expensive if you ignore certain issues.

Running a company of electricians is just as challenging as managing plumbers or other workers who have to work on call out in the field. Even more complicated is attempting to manage the fleet vehicles your team of electricians use to travel from one place to another.

The thought of outsourcing your fleet management duties might sound foreign if you've never done it before. After years of doing things the same, though, you may finally realize you need to do something to improve your account management. In recent years, you've maybe had trouble keeping things organized because your company has so many different locations.

Those of you who manage drivers in big companies likely know about telematics, even if you haven't yet invested heavily in this technology. Telematics are devices placed in fleet trucks that help track driver behavior and general workflow.

If your company has yet to bring in any mobile technology, you'll have to admit you're more than a couple years behind. For fleet management, it's become an essential, even if you think you can still run things the old way. In truth, it's impossible to manage all the demands of fleet management today without some kind of mobile tech at the helm.