Rental & Leasing

Having a clear view of vehicle locations, information on mileage, and insight into how vehicles are being driven enables Rental and Leasing operators to boost their performance. Better service and more efficient operations help customers to save costs and lessen business risk.

By understanding the needs of a leasing company and their end-customer, FiT has identified some key features of interest to the industry.

  • Objective, transparent odometer (mileage) reporting.
  • Integration into back-end systems, through secure web and mobile applications.
  • Trip and vehicle utilization reports.
  • Driver identification.
  • Tracking and stolen vehicle recovery.
  • Vehicle error and trip reports.

Fleet management tools developed by FiT have long been relied on by Rental and Leasing businesses. Proven results boost the bottom line, facilitate sustainable improvement and add value to existing service offerings.

Oil & Gas

FiT has partnered with customers in the Oil and Gas industry for over a decade. During this time, we have become experts in developing products and services that enable operators to comply with QHSE regulations specific to their industry and region.

Customized solutions by FiT enable Oil and Gas companies to run smooth operations and ensure the safety of their workforce. Drivers, for example, are equipped with tools to enhance their driving style, which in turn reduces the number of accidents.

Our reliable and cost-effective solutions incorporate functionality that includes:

  • Compliance monitoring like Hours of Service and IFTA State Line Crossing.
  • Real-time driver behavior monitoring.
  • Driver identification and driver scoring.
  • Trip and vehicle utilization reports.
  • Consultancy, including risk assessment and road safety strategy development.
  • Targeted driver training including defensive driver training.
  • Oil and Gas customers affiliated to FiT include.
  • JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Qatar), Qatar Shell, Schlumberger, and Basic Energy.

Construction

In Construction, there will always be a demand for quicker project completion, greater fleet efficiency and more protection. This, coupled with the added burden of maintaining expensive equipment, makes it crucial to pursue smart solutions in order to remain profitable.

FiT offers systems that enable the monitoring of construction vehicles and their drivers in real-time.

This provides a number of benefits:

  • Reduced fuel consumption, thanks to the ability to monitor and correct driver behavior as well as the behavior of those operating machinery.
  • Enhanced machine utilization, by being able to compare actual usage with expected usage.
  • Increased productivity, thanks to on-board technology that enables the tracking of assets.
  • Improved safety compliance, through Hours of Service functionality among other valuable features.
  • Better security, through GPS asset tracking to prevent theft and misuse.
  • Improved maintenance, with electronic service and licensing schedules.

In addition to the obvious features, like determining a vehicle’s location, locating machines and obtaining fuel consumption reports, fleet managers also benefit by being able to create geo-fences. These limit vehicles and machinery to certain pre-defined areas within certain time periods – features that are guaranteed to boost fleet efficiency, safety and security levels.

Utilities

Delivering water, electricity, gas and related services to the mass population is no small feat. Utility companies are acutely aware of the high-value of their loads and have a strong sense of responsibility in transporting and providing services for the delivery of these resources.

FiT partners with companies in the Service and Utilities industry to help them manage their businesses efficiently and safely. Electricity provider Eskom in South Africa, water authority PAEW in Oman, along with a number of Oil and Gas companies in North America, the Middle East and Australia, are examples of customers who partner with FiT to manage their safety, efficiency and compliance goals.

In a highly competitive marketplace, these companies face the constant challenges of rising fuel prices and high costs associated with government regulations and customer compliance.

Our solutions help these businesses to:

  • Track and protect their vehicles, drivers and high-value high risk loads.
  • Improve customer service through things like more on-time deliveries.
  • Reduce their fleet sizes.
  • Better plan routes and optimize fleet utilization.
  • Lower fuel and fleet operating costs.
  • Improve safety levels and lessen overall risk.
  • Alter driver behavior and implement training and incentive programs.
  • Adhere to strict and changing government and customer compliance demands.

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

Customers like SPAR in South Africa and PepsiCo in Egypt have the unique challenge of transporting perishable and breakable goods – often across long distances and to tight schedules.

Being able to locate vehicles and loads, while optimizing delivery schedules, is therefore key to enabling the success of fleets operating within the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry.

FiT solutions form an integral part of these fleet operations, helping to:

  • Track vehicles, drivers and loads in real-time and historically.
  • Optimize routing, often for multiple vehicles.
  • Monitor driver behavior with a view to reducing fuel usage and accident rates.
  • Minimize wastage and damage to goods.
  • Reduce business risk and improve safety.
  • Improve service levels.

For FMCG, where keeping tabs on stock is vital, another important consideration is the security of goods in transit. FiT systems not only provide customized real-time alerts for violations, but hardware to record incidents and recover stolen vehicles * In South Africa.

Transport and Distribution

With rising fuel prices, globalization and increased competition, fleet managers in the Transport and Distribution industry are looking to telematics system providers for a sustainable way to defy tough market conditions.

FiT offers solutions that can not only boost fleet efficiency, but help to simplify everyday processes.

This is achieved through sophisticated on-board and mobile technology with features that allow fleet managers to:

  • Improve communication.
  • Optimize routes.
  • Monitor and improve driver behavior.
  • Manage fuel consumption.
  • Handle jobs and messages in real-time.

For customers like ASD Metals in the United Kingdom, Fonterra Milk Collection in New Zealand and Clover Logistics in South Africa, these features are often responsible for significant cost savings achieved through optimized asset utilization, lowered fleet maintenance costs, tightened regulatory compliance and – very importantly – improved service levels.

Government

Government and public sector agencies are under relentless pressure to cut costs, while retaining a high standard of service. These challenges can and are being met within Government fleets through the adoption of vehicle telematics systems, as offered by FiT.

Fleet vehicles typically account for a large part of a Government agency’s annual budget. For that reason, they have begun looking for ways to optimize fleet utilization while ensuring that they comply with existing and new regulatory and environmental legislation.

Vehicle telematics systems, like those developed by FiT, offer unique features, such as:

  • Mobile workforce management.
  • Routing capabilities to dispatch drivers more efficiently.
  • Alerts and reports for driving violations, and subsequent corrective action.
  • Driver ID keys to prevent unauthorized behavior and false claims.
  • Fuel usage reports.
  • Carbon emission calculation and reduction.