During this difficult economic recession many companies need to reduce their operating costs as incoming business levels have dropped. For many companies, reducing costs without affecting productivity is not easy.

Vehicle tracking is a solution that is already helping many UK businesses significantly reduce their costs. If your company operates a fleet of vehicles, whether those vehicles are cars or HGVs, you can save money.

A key saving that a tracking system can immediately make is reducing fuel costs. Monthly fuel costs are huge for many companies and continue to rise due to recent increases in the price of fuel. Vehicle tracking helps fleet managers to prevent fuel from being wasted and minimise the fleet’s fuel consumption.

Pregem’s vehicle tracking monitors accelerating, braking, idling and speed. If any of these are done in excess (which they often are), then fuel is being wasted. Companies that have installed tracking have been able to reduce fuel consumption by as much as 15%. Indeed, only 1 litre of fuel needs to be saved per day/per vehicle and the tracking will pay for itself.

Vehicle tracking systems also record the mileage driven by a vehicle. Reports generated by the tracking system can be used by drivers to submit their mileage expense claims. This prevents losses brought about by inaccuracies and abuse.