Digital fleet network helpful in economic downturn
Summary
As a slowing economy continues to cool off a once red-hot freight market, fleet management experts advise leaning on digital analytics to beef up service and maintenance programs and maximize budget dollars. Its all manual and its all very time consuming,” said Alex Clementi, pre/post sales engineer at Decisiv, a company whose tech platform corrals digital telematics data and makes it available for various stakeholders including fleet manages, service personnel, dealers and OEMs. “Fleets that leverage digitized management platforms can better anticipate, respond and adapt to inflation and slowing market conditions with increased access to the right data and insights. “By connecting every part of your operations into a single management platform – from vehicle telematics to video safety to asset tracking and more – these organizations gain a holistic view of their business and can increase efficiency and protect their bottom line,” Deshpande continued. Sometimes protecting that bottom line involves knowing when to pull the trigger on replacing older trucks, especially as revenue streams narrow according to Fleetio’s Head of Product Marketing Ashlee Biggs.