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Telematics Helps Dealers and OEMs Deliver Heavy Equipment Maintenance

  For many heavy equipment OEMs and dealers, maintenance and repair contracts constitute an important and potentially lucrative revenue stream. Performing service is also an important way to stay in front of customers and drive more future business. Leveraging real-time telematics data unlocks more efficient, effective heavy equipment maintenance to help OEM/dealers provide a better service experience, save customers money and build a relationship based on trust. Automation equals greater efficiency  Regular heavy equipment maintenance is a win-win: OEMs/dealers make money in parts and labor, and customers enjoy the benefit of reliable, longer-lasting equipment that is ready when needed. Just-in-time maintenance based on miles or hours of use captured by telematics devices can help prevent over-maintenance, which racks up unnecessary costs and takes equipment out of service more often than necessary, as well as under-maintenance, which can lead to equipment breakdowns and shor...

Keeping Fleet Fuel Card Users Accountable with Telematics

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  Containing your fleet’s fuel expenses is critical to staying on budget. That means optimizing routes, curbing excessive idling and hard acceleration and keeping vehicles well maintained. It also means monitoring for fuel card fraud. Chances are, most of your drivers are honest. But fuel card fraud is real. When employees with a card such as the WEX fuel card share it with friends or family members or use it to fill up unauthorized vehicles, your organization pays the price. Transaction data reports from your fuel card company provide important basics: date and time of purchases, the price and the fuel type. Some reports even highlight high-price purchases, purchases that exceed the vehicle’s tank capacity and other potential red flags., But the telematics-based fleet management solution you use to manage your fleet every day can add an extra layer of information that ties in vehicle location. In addition, monitoring your fuel card usage in the same place you monitor other fleet d...