Companies with field service, transportation or delivery vehicles face the ongoing concern of keeping down operating costs— especially fuel costs. Challenges include ever-increasing fuel prices, as well as excess fuel consumption from:
• Vehicles traveling outside planned routes
• Unauthorized side trips or after-hours vehicle use
• Speeding or excessive engine idling time
• Lack of proper maintenance/inefficient engine operation

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that companies can save from nine to 40 percent in miles-per-gallon when improving vehicle maintenance. A Vehicle Maintenance feature helps managers achieve these fuel savings by ensuring the scheduling of engine tune-ups, timely air filter replacement, regular oil changes and correct motor oil grade—as well as other types of maintenance—with customizable lists of items to track and definable thresholds for setting reminder alerts.

Fleet Management systems also offer more detailed reports for companies who want to measure vehicles’ carbon emissions, miles traveled by state, fuel used during idling, PTO, and driving time. Optional, Advanced Fuel and Carbon reports offer:
• Carbon emissions data
• State mileage
• Detailed fuel usage