Fleet management is a constantly growing list of responsibilities, indicating the pivotal role played in achieving a wide array of business goals. In addition to ensuring that vehicles are well maintained and in a state of operational readiness, you are also tasked with identifying opportunities to optimise the organisation’s fleet investment. This will involve ensuring that the right vehicles and items of plant are available for specific tasks, and that field teams have access to the resources they need. But that’s just the start. All of the regulatory and reporting aspects of managing vehicles need to be considered. On/off road use, odo and hubo recording, cost allocation and retrieval reports. Each of these depends on accurate and timely reporting from the vehicle pool or remote job sites to meet reporting deadlines. You will also have key responsibilities around vehicle and diver safety, with duty-of-care obligations that make you personally responsible for a range of factors beyond simply making sure that your vehicles are safe and meet legislative requirements. How drivers behave on the road, whether steps have been taken to educate them and institute a safe driving culture, all are included in a Fleet Manager’s responsibilities. Achieving cost savings, whether through fuel cost reductions or by transitioning some of the fleet to electric vehicles, could also be a prime consideration in your reporting. How do you identify where the savings can be found, which vehicles are underutilised, is the fleet mix maximising the return on investment? You’re the fleet manager, not the CFO, and yet fiscal responsibility is integral to successfully fulfilling your responsibilities. This is how Smartrak’s comprehensive and scalable solutions are already delivering measurable benefits to customers in a wide range of industries; empowering fleet managers to make decisions that genuinely impact on productivity and safety.