Electrical Contractor Cuts Fuel Costs With Easily-Customizable Fleet Management Solution

Most of Barlows’ engineers work in pairs with two engineers per vehicle. Barlows needed a fleet management system to ensure the safety of their workers, cut vehicle maintenance and fuel costs, and reduce accidents.

Solution

Barlows initially installed the FM200 solution into ten vehicles in 2007. Barlows experienced significant reductions in both road accidents and fuel usage, and gradually they increased the number of unit installations and migrated towards FM200 Plus. At first FM200 Plus easily met their fleet management needs, but Barlows grew as a company and they soon required wireless remote access to vehicle data. Consequently, Barlows upgraded fur ther to FM300 and FM Communicator with wireless connectivity and implemented this advanced solution onto their entire fleet of I80 vehicles. The upgrade eliminated the need for the “DECT” (Digital Enhanced Cordless Comm unication) method of transferring data from the vehicle as they could now access data remotely via wireless access at any time. The DECT method required every vehicle to drive past a box in a central point in order to transfer data. Thanks to MiX Telematics’ scalability and common technology platform, Barlows could easily upgrade their solution without ever replacing the hardware units in their vehicles.

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