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Imagine it’s a Monday morning, and your fleet of 100 construction vehicles is ready to hit the road. You’ve got a bunch of active job orders, and one of them is pretty critical: your concrete mixer truck needs to be at a construction site by 8 a.m. sharp.

Fleet Management Software: A Compelling Investment for 2024 Nowadays, fleet management has the potential to be ramped up to unprecedented speeds and simplified, yet it can carry much more complex data and realize sophisticated tasks. Pen-and-paper fleet management methods have become competitively disadvantaged, if not obsolete. Innovative fleet solutions are a prerequisite for running a successful fleet — their long list of powerful features and benefits attests to this. If you were contemplating making the jump to fleet software, let this be a solidifying, factual overview of the solution’s advantages to dispel your doubts.

A construction dispatcher fields the same four calls all day — where are you, did you finish, when's the truck coming, which site. None are emergencies, but together they burn about two hours. Here's where the time goes — and the first call to move off the phone.

Most "fleet management software" was built for long-haul trucking or service vehicles — construction is the asset-mixed reality in between, and most vendors treat it as an afterthought. Here are the four capabilities that actually matter for a construction fleet, starting with dispatch, plus an honest vendor-by-vendor look at how Samsara, Motive, Fleetio, Verizon Connect, Tenna, and Fleet Chaser handle each.

Managing a fleet isn’t just about tracking dots on a map. It’s about knowing exactly what’s happening — and reacting before small issues become big problems. That’s why we rebuilt and expanded the Fleet Chaser Events System. Now, with a cleaner interface and more flexible rules, Events is open to every Fleet Chaser customer.

But your drivers may need to be on board with that decision. How do you do what’s best for your drivers and fleet without harming driver trust while juggling legal concerns? Not to worry. Here are crucial points to keep in mind in your efforts to equip your fleet with dash cams while preserving driver privacy:

We’re excited to announce that Fleet Chaser will be at the Charlotte Build Expo 2024 on December 11-12 at the Charlotte Convention Center. This is your chance to connect with us in person and learn how we’re helping SMBs in the construction industry take control of their fleet operations.

We’ve refreshed the platform’s look, focusing on a more user-friendly design. The new interface not only looks more attractive but is also designed to boost your productivity by making navigation simpler.

Ever needed to record specific vehicle information that you can’t quite assign to your existing data categories? With notes, important vehicle details are safe in one place, always at your disposal. This can be repair shop inspections, vehicle documents, legal information, etc.