Fleet tracking for maintenance crews, more jobs completed, less admin overhead

Property and facilities maintenance crews face a daily challenge: maximising the number of jobs completed within a working day while managing the administrative overhead of time recording, job documentation, and mileage reporting. GPS fleet tracking from LockCar eliminates most of this administrative burden automatically, providing objective job time and mileage records without requiring any driver action.

Automatic job time recording

Maintenance crews typically spend time at each job completing paperwork or making phone calls to confirm job duration before moving to the next site. GPS trip history from LockCar LFM records arrival and departure times at every location automatically, creating a complete job time record without any driver action required.

For facilities management companies that invoice clients based on time on site, GPS-verified job times are more accurate and more defensible in billing disputes than manually recorded times. For maintenance businesses operating on service level agreements with response time commitments, GPS records confirm that response times are being met.

Maximising jobs per day through route efficiency

GPS route history analysis identifies where maintenance crews are spending excessive travel time between jobs, taking suboptimal routes, or missing opportunities for geographic clustering of jobs. Route optimisation based on GPS data consistently increases the number of jobs completable in a working day by reducing inter-job travel time.

For maintenance businesses that take on reactive jobs throughout the day, real-time GPS visibility of crew locations allows office staff to assign new jobs to the nearest available crew member rather than to a specific named crew, further improving geographic efficiency.

Tool and van security for maintenance crews

Maintenance vans carry substantial value in tools, parts, and specialist equipment. Overnight tool theft and relay attack on keyless vans are persistent risks for maintenance crew operators. LockCar’s relay immobiliser protects the van from theft. Movement alerts notify the business owner if any van moves outside working hours.

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