The ability to monitor and manage your fleet of trucks in real time is essential for efficient operations, cost savings, and enhanced customer service. Our cutting-edge truck tracking technology empowers you to take control of your fleet, optimize routes, reduce fuel consumption, improve driver safety, and much more.
When transporting goods within a truck, one of the most important aspects is ensuring that the goods are delivered on time, but there is a range of different benefits to using a truck GPS system. Whether you have a single truck or an entire fleet of HGVs or trucks, RAM truck tracking devices help you to keep on top of your vehicles.
A truck tracking system ensures that any delivery company has immediate access to the real-time location of their fleet of trucks. This gives you immediate information on:
Whether your drivers are being productive with their day.
If they have been spending too much time idling.
Ensuring that they are driving sensibly behind the wheel.
If drivers have left a geofence set for a specific customer or depot.
This allows you to understand if your drivers are wasting time in the day as well as avoiding fellow road users complaining about a bad driver in a vehicle with your company branding on it.
Our truck tracking system is invaluable for any heavy goods vehicle operators who work within the freight transport industry. When you are transporting someone else’s goods, it is incredibly important that they can understand where you are at all times.
Using our real-time truck tracking system, sharing your location and simply looking at the web app, you get instant knowledge of where they are with the goods. With our live share system, you can know where drivers are at all times.
RAM Tracking provides a low-cost truck GPS that provides fleet managers with peace of mind about where any trucks, semi's and HGVs are at any time.
All of the truck tracking information is collected and transferred immediately to our central database, and within this database, you get access to real-time information. Our reporting feature gives you access to all of your historical information at a glance - this means that all of the information that you have collected over time can be collated in an easy-to-read way.
When you open up the web app, you can see all of your vehicles on Google maps which is frequently updated. By using our GPS tracking device for trucks you can instantly see who is driving, unloading and idling.
RAM Tracking offers a range of reports that take the historical data that has been collected and allows you to collate it in a way that makes data easy to read. You can collate your historical data into over 25 different reports, this can be information on an individual vehicle, multiple vehicles or even your entire fleet. You can choose from reports such as:
Idle report: Learn when drivers are sitting with their engines on, wasting time and fuel.
Driver behavior: See if drivers are harsh braking or accelerating excessively whilst on the road.
Green report: Gain a deeper understanding of your pollution levels, how idling is affecting the environment and where to improve.
You will be provided with data in seconds that cuts your admin time drastically. You don't need to transfer information into an Excel document, RAM Tracking does all of the heavy lifting for you. We help you save time and money by utilizing factual data to implement actionable changes within your fleet.
When you have a full fleet to keep track of, there is a lot of stress that comes with it, and therefore, you don't need to also be worrying about the signal dropping at any moment. That's why we make sure that all of our customers who work in a low-signal or a rural area are offered multiple SIM cards when expansive coverage is needed.
We help to make sure that you are always getting up-to-date, accurate information. This helps to ensure that if a customer calls up with a dispute, the fleet manager will have full peace of mind, as a low signal won't stop information coming in as it happens.
One of the most costly elements of running a fleet is the cost of refuelling, our truck tracking system allows you to monitor things like idle time so you can coach drivers to reduce the amount of wasted gas.
Use truck tracking to gain visibility over your fleet, understand their current location which will help to provide you with evidence for any customer queries.
Our customers have reported a 15-20% improvement in productivity through the use of our tracking system by utilizing the use of the information found within the app.
You can easily avoid large fines against your business through the use of our truck tracking system as you stay up-to-date with legally required ELDs.
RAM Tracking is one of the most respectable and knowledgeable market leaders in the industry for truck and lorry fleet telematics.
We respond to questions about vehicle trackers regularly and help businesses better understand how vehicle trackers for lorries and trucks can help improve profitability and performance. As such, we’ve compiled our most frequently asked questions about truck and lorry tracking
A truck tracking system utilizes Global Positioning System to monitor the current, real-time location of any of your trucks that have a GPS tracker installed inside. The information that it collects can then be viewed within a central location on the suppliers web app or, if they have one, a mobile app. You will find that it will supply you with valuable insights into your fleet performance that then allows you to make informed decisions of how to improve.
The information that is collected and displayed to you within the web app shows you important information such as how to reduce your fleet's fuel consumption, you can also use it to ensure that drivers are driving appropriately, if not, you can coach the drivers to improve driver safety. All of the information that you take action on will help you in improving the overall efficiency and productivity of the fleet. When you know the location of your truck at all times, you can take proactive measures to ensure that better routes are being taken to reduce downtime and any unnecessary idling. Truck tracking is a fantastic way to save money and time.
When you implement truck tracking into your fleet you will find that you will have access to information such as; real-time location, speed, the direction of travel and historical data on routes and stop times. However, there are advanced features that you will only get from some suppliers such as; geofencing (which lets you set up virtual boundaries around specific notifications) and vehicle diagnostics (which provides information on the health of your vehicles as well as much more.
Utilizing truck tracking properly allows you to get information such as driver speed, the route they took, and their driver behaviour, this includes instances of speeding, harsh braking, rapid acceleration, idling and more. You can find out if a driver was breaking the speed limit for the area that they were in - important information so you can take action.
You can also understand the number of hours that they have been working, so if they have been going over their hours of service, you can address this appropriately.
Of course! By utilizing the right data, you can understand the speed that your drivers are going, how much time they spend idling, rapidly accelerating, harshly braking, and more. This allows you to find which drivers are the biggest culprits for wasting fuel, you can then coach these drivers and ensure that in the future they change their driving habits to ensure that they are being more fuel economical with their driving time.
If you require one or more of your tracking units to be switched into a different truck for any reason, your supplier should offer this service to you. If this is something that you require, we recommend speaking with the supplier before you sign the contract so you understand the terms and conditions for the defit/refit service that they offer.
Yes, you can either look at the daily timeline to see the time that a driver started and by using this information, you can then work out if they have exceeded their hours of service. Alternatively, you can utilize our reports to understand the amount of driving time, time stopped and idle time that each driver has done each day over a period of time, for example, a week to see if they have been going over their HOS. Either way, you can coach your driver explaining that they are going over their hours of service (if this is the case) to ensure that they are following the regulations, addressing this quickly will help you to avoid any penalties or fines for non-compliance.
No - truck tracking is designed with the user in mind. Once the supplier has installed the hardwired units into your trucks, you are able to go into the tracking app and begin collecting information about your vehicles. You will also find that many providers will have mobile apps that make it easier to access your data on the go. If you feel like you will need any additional help after this point, it is worth speaking to the provider to talk about what kinds of training they can supply.
The cost of truck tracking will depend between suppliers, as well as the number of months that you are wanting to sign up for as well as the size of your fleet and of course the number of features that you are looking to use as part of your truck tracking. It is important to speak with the supplier beforehand giving them all of the information that we have just outlined. This way, they should be able to give you an accurate quote.
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