When company vehicles are issued to employees for company business, problems sometimes develop because the employees have little or no supervision. Often the employers have some sort of idea that employees are not working throughout the day while out in the company vehicle because of a drop in productivity or a lower quality of work or longer work hours than other employees. No matter the reason, this drop in productivity will eventually affect the company’s bottom line through extra overtime, hiring new employees, purchasing new equipment, and higher employee turnover.

I’ve recently read a Blog for GPS vehicle tracking written by concerned parents. The parents installed a GPS device in their kids’ vehicles to keep track of where they were and when they were there. Almost every teen has a cell phone now, but some parents want to have a little more control over where their kids go. GPS tracking allows the kids to have the freedom that comes with a car, but also allows their parents to rest assured knowing that their kids aren’t putting themselves into danger.

Using a system like the GPS Insight vehicle tracking system will almost certainly raise the eyebrows of those concerned about companies spying on their employees and parents spying on their kids. However, there are many companies that would be unable to give their employees the benefits of a company car without being able to monitor the location of the vehicle in some way. Similarly, many parents would not feel comfortable enough to let their kids drive a car at such a young age without being able to track where they go. Systems like this GPS tracking system allow companies to give their employees a company car without losing control of what happens when the employee is driving around.

The price for these systems are very affordable even for companies with fairly large fleets. The site lists most prices at between $1.50 and $2.00 per day per vehicle. For companies that have large fleets of vehicles out on the road this type of service is almost a necessity. The saving in fuel costs, vehicle routing, overtime, and efficiency should more than pay for the cost of tracking the vehicles.

Even if your company doesn’t have its own IT department, vehicle tracking can be easy to set up. There is a very detailed page to answer all sorts of questions about how to set up and operate the system at the GPS Insight support wiki for customers.

The image below shows how powerful the software can be by locating multiple vehicles on an interactive map.