Buses running out of fuel on the road occur far more often than most people would believe and are seldom addressed (if at all) by the average fleet management system. It is a major, costly problem in terms of both money and citizen goodwill. The problem is much more complex than it seems and much simpler to solve than many within the industry believe.
Topics: public transit fuel management, fleet fuel management, vehicle data, preventative maintenance, fleet management, real-time data
Today we give special recognition to the fleet managers and some critical partners who contribute to our success. Thanks to these hard-working and strategically essential employees from all our industries, Coencorp has been growing for three decades, building the most comprehensive, fully integrated, customizable, and user-friendly fleet management system available, SM2. To better understand what makes these partners so vital to us, we must look at all they do daily and how their business needs become our primary functions.
Topics: fuel management, fleet management, driver behaviour, vehicle tracking
The global construction industry accounts for between 25-40% of the world's carbon emissions from all its gas-guzzling assets. It’s no surprise construction companies are under intense scrutiny over fuel consumption. Increasingly rigid government regulations demand accountability for every drop of fuel that goes into an asset’s tank and how every one of those drops is being spent. Public opinion now plays an equally strong value in sales, and gas-dependent companies need to get green to keep and gain more clients, especially regarding lucrative government contracts. Construction fleet managers are needing to report on behaviors they once took for granted and provide detailed data beyond the amount of fuel purchased. They must know where, how, and why it’s being spent. Traditional manual data collection methods are no longer adequate, and new industry leaders must implement more efficient solutions. The need for accurate reporting tools has become clear, and gas giants like BP are painting perspectives for their customers on the imperative benefits of having automated & integrated fuel management systems like SM2. At Coencorp, we always start with the individual’s unique needs, so let’s start there to illustrate what BP is telling all fuel-consuming industries.
Topics: construction fuel management, fleet fuel management, going green
I was planning my budget the other day and thinking about how much gas I used for trips to and from work, to do groceries, to the gym, to go on weekend outings with friends and family, and I realized that other than the mileage on my odometer, I didn’t really track where I spent on fuel each week; much less for each month, or year. I suppose if I knew, I’d be a little shocked, and I’d also be a little more careful about what I paid for gas, how I operated my car, and how many trips I made each day. The truth was, I only had a vague idea about my gas spending behavior and I probably wouldn’t even see if my changes made any significant difference or not to my single-car usage. Then I thought about my clients.
Topics: fuel management, fleet management, mining
Our previous article discussed the importance of capturing real-time data to feed your fleet management system. However, having loads of raw data flooding in is one thing. Being able to organize and analyze it all in real-time visually is a whole different challenge for most fleet managers. Increasingly, companies and industries demand real-time insights to understand what is happening within their organisations entirely. What are the advantages of real-time data analytics, where are the challenges, and which tools can be used for the real-time processing of live data?
Across industries and markets, we hear the call to real-time data collection and its importance to profitable big data analytics. Companies with fleets to manage have known this for a long time and continue to partner with fleet management system (FMS) suppliers to improve business practices and outcomes.
Topics: fleet fuel management, maintenance management, maintenance software optimization, vehicle data, fleet management, AVL, real-time data
Implementing a fully integrated fleet management system that answers the challenges of a vast diversity of industries and companies needing them is realizable when the supplier builds its system on these strong values: flexibility, adaptability, scalability, and user-focused functionality. Most companies’ needs vary beyond what combination of equipment and assets they own; they include the very human factors of management styles, objectives, and visions. In reality, one-size-fits-all solutions often fail because no two fleets are exactly alike. Your ideal fleet management solution must be built on an equal understanding of the equipment used and the people using them: the fleet managers and equipment users.
Here are a few critical needs our clients have identified in their industries:
Government, Public Works, and Construction:
While there are some differences across industries, the two points remain consistent: the data collected must be automatic, real-time, and accurate, and the ability to pull reports on the data must be flexible to the needs of the individual company. Whether operating a refinery, or fuel depot, transporting fuel, or providing mobile services in any industry, the cost of fuel, labor, and maintenance are among the highest, and, more importantly, these activities are operationally critical. They need to be managed accurately with full accountability. It has been a major challenge for fleeted organizations in any industry to manage their operations with technologies incapable of providing automated, seamless, and integrated solutions.
When discussing the high costs of fleet management, our customers often tell us fuel consumption is on par with expenses related to labor. In fact, they tend to complement each other in transparent and trackable ways. The most obvious is when your fleet increases in size, so do labor and fuel expenses. However, the relational increase isn’t always a one-to-one ratio. The question is why it sometimes seems to increase exponentially.
Topics: fuel management, maintenance management, fleet management, AVL, driver behaviour, vehicle tracking
Ask their customers for the advantages of working with the Coencorp team, and you will get beautiful stories describing the company's five pillars: Accessibility, Adaptability, Automation, Accountability, and Amalgamation.
These pillars describe more than the services and products developed over the past twenty-seven years; they describe the founders’ values.
Moreover, these five “A”s have driven their vision since the exciting
call for help from their first and oldest client. This client allowed the founders to build everything around their core values: People-centred, Quality Driven, Adaptability Oriented.
Whenever a firm lists its requirements for any system, be it for the management of fuel, maintenance, or real-time tracking of assets in the field, that list typically revolves around two basic ideas: record keeping and control. We want to make sure certain things get done at certain times, some things only happen under specific conditions, and reports exist to account for whatever has already occurred. Spec requirements often specify the exact reports the fleet managers look for and how operations are to be conducted, but they rarely detail how exceptions are to be handled.
Topics: how select fuel management system, fleet management, how select maintenance management system, exceptions