Managing a fleet of trucks and staying on top of maintenance, scheduling, personnel and billing can be stressful. That’s why implementing a fleet...
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Preventive Maintenance Keeps Equipment on the Job Site Longer
In the daily management of job site priorities, busy contractors risk having preventive maintenance of vehicles and equipment fall by the wayside.
To...
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Plumbing Firm Uses Software to Improve Driver Safety Across Large Fleet
A business doesn’t last 40 years — and continue to grow — by sitting still or staying stagnant. That’s something the Bill...
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Mobility and Productivity Go Hand in Hand on the Job Site
Add up all the time lost while struggling to find the right equipment or product in a truck, workshop or warehouse; now...
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Safety Improvements For Your Truck Fleet
From time to time, we look at our world and see what we can do to improve driving/driver safety. At our company,...
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4 Key Components of Good Fleet Planning Strategies
Most fleet managers know that vehicle maintenance takes two forms: scheduled and unscheduled.
In the same way that regularly scheduled health checkups can...
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Safety Supplies to Keep Your Fleet Moving
Whether you have one vehicle or 100, your operators spend nearly all their time in or around their service vehicles.Often, whether or...
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Not Just for Convenience
It might seem like a dramatic claim, but disorganized service trucks can have a real cost for business owners.
“Plumbers are hoarders,” says...
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Case Study: Field and Office Technology
Cloud-based system helps company speed up paperwork
Problem: At Roto-Rooter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, paperwork was manually processed. There was a wait for the...
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Case Study: Field and Office Technology
Cloud-based system helps company speed up paperwork
Problem: At Roto-Rooter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, paperwork was manually processed. There was a wait for the...
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15 Vehicle Tracking Programs Designed to Increase Driver Efficiency
Managing a fleet of drivers can be difficult, to say the least. There are always inefficiencies for reasons such as routing issues,...
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Commercial Clients Help Contractor Grow Drain Cleaning Side of Business
O'Connor Plumbing's drain cleaning division has experienced exponential growth in less than four years, accounting for more than 30 percent of the company's annual...
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Real-Time GPS Tracking Helps Contractor Improve Customer Service
Papalia Plumbing & Heating in Acton, Massachusetts, implemented the Fleetmatics GPS fleet tracking system to better monitor technicians. But the benefits don't stop there.“It...
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Insurance Coverage: What Do Cleaning Contractors Need?
When it comes to insurance for your sewer and drain cleaning business, there are certain policies that virtually all small-business owners need. There...




















