Running a construction business means keeping people, vehicles, tools and materials moving between jobs. When you are managing several vans and working across multiple sites, it can be difficult to know exactly where your vehicles are, how long teams have spent on a job, or what happened earlier in the day.
You’re on site when a customer calls. One of your team is on another job, another is collecting materials, and you need to know where everyone is. The last thing you want to do is stop what you’re doing and call around for updates.
If you run a small building business with several vans, having a simple way to check where your vehicles are and where they’ve been can make day-to-day management much easier. That is where Quartix vehicle tracking can help. GPS vehicle tracking gives you quick access to vehicle locations, journey history and job timings, helping you spend less time chasing information and more time running your business.
Through it’s relationship with the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), Quartix works with businesses in the construction sector to provide straightforward vehicle tracking that helps owners keep an eye on their vehicles, save time and stay in control of day-to-day tasks.
Building businesses rarely follow a predictable day. Jobs change, customers call, materials need collecting and your team can be spread across several sites. When you’re not always in the office, it helps to have the information you need available when you need it.
Vehicle tracking gives you a clear record of vehicle activity, helping answer practical questions such as:
Receive useful reports without having to search for the information. The aim isn’t to give you another system to manage. It’s to make it easier to answer everyday questions about your vehicles without having to call around.
If you are a business owner who still spends time working on jobs yourself, you cannot always be in the office keeping an eye on your vehicles. With live GPS vehicle tracking, you can check vehicle locations from your computer or mobile device. That means you can see where your team are, even when you are working elsewhere, without having to call them for an update.
It can also help when plans change during the day. If an urgent job comes in, knowing where your vehicles are can help you decide which team is best placed to take it. Quartix’s postcode search can help identify the nearest vehicle, making it easier to respond to new work without unnecessary travel.
You can also see when vehicles arrived at and left a site. Quartix’s timesheet report provides a record of arrival and departure times, which can be useful when checking job timings or dealing with billing queries.
For a small construction business, that information can act as a useful safety net when a customer asks when a team arrived during a particular visit.
Fuel and mileage are two costs that can quickly add up when your vans are on the road every day. GPS vehicle tracking can help you understand how your vehicles are being used and identify journeys or driving habits that may be adding unnecessary mileage.
Looking at previous routes can show:
Driving behaviour is another part of the picture. Quartix speed reports allow businesses to see where drivers have exceeded speed limits. This provides a factual basis for conversations with employees and can help businesses encourage safer driving practices.
Better visibility of mileage and driving behaviour can help you make more informed decisions about vehicle use, fuel consumption and running costs.
Fuel prices can vary considerably between stations, so knowing where to find a cheaper option can help you keep everyday running costs under control. With Quartix’s free fuel price checker, you can search by town, postcode or address to see live fuel prices nearby. Choose Cheapest to find the lowest prices in the area or Nearest to find convenient options close to you.
Managing four vans is different from managing one. As a business grows, keeping track of vehicle locations, journeys, job timings and maintenance information can become increasingly difficult to manage manually.
A vehicle tracking system can bring this information together, giving you one place to check vehicle activity. Quartix also offers maintenance reporting to help businesses keep track of MOTs, servicing and other important vehicle dates. Staying on top of these deadlines can help reduce unexpected downtime and keep vehicles available for work.
For a construction business, an unavailable van can quickly become an operational problem. Planning maintenance around your workload gives you more control over when vehicles are off the road.
If you’re already managing customers, employees, jobs and suppliers, the last thing you need is a complicated vehicle management system.
The useful information should be easy to find. Quartix lets you access vehicle locations and journey information when you need it, while scheduled reports can deliver regular information directly to your inbox.
Geofencing can also be used to create virtual boundaries around locations such as your depot or regular customer sites. You can receive notifications when vehicles enter or leave these areas, giving you another way to keep an eye on vehicle use without constantly checking the system.
Our vehicle tracking system helps you spend less time finding the information you need, and more time running your business.
Quartix provides a GPS vehicle tracking solution designed to give businesses a clearer view of their vans and journeys. For building businesses, that can mean checking vehicle locations while you are out on a job, reviewing journey history when a customer has a question, receiving automatic reports and keeping an eye on vehicle use.
The focus is on making useful information easy to access, without requiring you to spend hours managing another complicated system. Quartix has built its approach around reliable technology, straightforward service and value for money. That fits the practical needs of many small and medium-sized construction businesses: you want the information you need, when you need it, without unnecessary complexity.
If you are spending too much time calling drivers, checking job timings or trying to work out where a vehicle has been, GPS vehicle tracking could give you a simpler way to manage your business vehicles.
As part of its relationship with the Federation of Master Builders, Quartix understands the importance of practical solutions for construction businesses.
Want to see how vehicle tracking could work for your business? Get a demo from Quartix or request a quote for your vehicles.
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