Oct/Nov 2007

Rocktop Skip Hire, a company based in north-east England, says it has been saving £10 per vehicle per day since fitting the VMIgreenlight Web-based vehicle tracking and fleet management system from Minorplanet in its 15 skip-carrying vehicles.

The savings result from a reduction in fuel and labour costs, which have been achieved because it has been possible to deploy trucks more efficiently to local jobs, the company says. In aggregate, the saving comes to an average of over £4,500 a month.

Transport manager Ron Richardson says other benefits have also come to light. 'Following an incident, one of our drivers had been accused of damaging a car. Tracking his whereabouts with VMI enabled us to prove that he was not at the scene when the damage took place.

'On a separate occasion the system allowed us to trace a driver who was lost in central London, and on another we were able to locate a driver who had broken down and lost radio contact with the office.'

 

It took just a week to fit the system in all 15 vehicles, the company says, and the job cause 'minimum disruption'.