Calamp

  As a purchasing agent, you’re always looking to get your fleet manager, maintenance manager or public works director the exact products and solutions they need as quickly as possible while remaining compliant with government procurement requirements. Very often, cooperative purchasing is the fastest, most effective approach. When a department needs a fleet telematics solution , the traditional procurement process of developing a list of specs, publishing RFPs and evaluating multiple bids can drag on for many months, leading to overtime hours and impatient department heads. Cooperative purchasing contracts eliminate most of that work so your agency or institution gets what it needs sooner, at a competitive price, and you save the taxpayers money. How does cooperative purchasing work? In a government cooperative purchasing program, multiple government entities (state, county and municipal), and in some cases, education and nonprofit organizations, form a single entity and share pr...

  Deploying snow plows as efficiently as possible before and during a storm is a goal of every winter operations fleet manager. Also critical is ensuring that de-icing materials such as road salt are used appropriately. While chloride is effective at melting ice and preventing snow from turning into ice, more is not better given its costs, its potentially damaging effects on wildlife and drinking water and its corrosive effects on vehicles, roads and bridges. The right fleet management solution can help you improve the performance of your winter road maintenance fleet in more ways than one, including optimizing material usage and staying compliant with state and county salt use policies. Spreader monitoring as a telematics feature At the most basic level, a fleet management solution tracks the location of all your vehicles using a GPS sensor in the telematics device. This real-time location data helps you strategize plow deployment and verify route completion. The device tracks the...