The construction materials business is tough and competitive. Given the commodity-like nature of the materials and the proximity of the competition, success is determined by operational efficiency and customer service. The organization with the lowest costs and the best service invariably enjoys the greatest profitability and growth. The race to drive down costs and increase service is intense and continuous. As transportation represents a large percentage of the delivered product's cost, it represents as significant an opportunity for cost reduction and profit enhancement.

The emergence of GPS-based fleet management solutions and their rapid adoption by leading construction material producers and haulers is creating a new competitive efficiency and service standard. The decision is no longer whether to take advantage of this technology, but how, when, and with whom to implement
it.

You can now know, real-time, precisely where your trucks are, how long they have been there, and what speed they are traveling. You can now accurately estimate when they are likely to arrive at the job site or back to the plant. That information can be automatically fed into your dispatch system, driving status changes, and providing configurable automated alerts when something unplanned occurs (for example, a truck has stopped too long). And, you can get all this, and much more, from a system that typically pays for itself in 90 days or less.