Fleet Management Refresh Eliminates Inefficiencies, Expands Functionality

By Brian Albright, Field Technologies

A new real-time GPS solution has helped this fire protection company reduce speeding and idling, while cutting the cost of its tracking system in half.

For a commercial building owner, sprinklers and fire alarms are critical systems. The consequences of broken equipment can be dire, so when there is a problem, customers want to know that a service technician will arrive quickly.

Baltimore-based Fireline Corp. has been in business since 1947, providing a variety of fire protection services including engineering and design, installation, inspection and testing, and service and repair of fire alarm, fire suppression, and sprinkler systems. The company employees 100 service technicians who spend the bulk of their day on the road, traveling between customer locations.