Don't Bankroll Someone Else's Business!

Every business owner knows that simply financing their own day-to-day operations is challenge enough. Imagine their shock when they discover that they might also be bankrolling their competitors in the form of moonlighting employees.

Moonlighting conjures up images of disloyal workers running around by night, using company trucks and equipment to cheat a company out of service call revenue. Unfortunately, Moonlighting can be a problem during business hours, after work and on weekends.

GPS fleet management solutions, like those provided by FleetBoss, can give owners the crucial tools they need to ensure that their vehicles are being used only for their company's benefit—by day, night or on weekends.

The following are just a two examples of how a FleetBoss system uncovered previously undetected moonlighting:

• After installing their FleetBoss system, a business maintenance company in Atlanta discovered that one particular driver was making daily stops at the location of a customer that had recently rejected the company's bid for service. The owner learned the name of the competing company and confronted his driver with the GPS data documenting these unauthorized stops. When the driver became evasive, the owner had this employee's truck inventoried. The owner was flabbergasted to find the vehicle loaded with the competing company's uniform shirts, invoices and business cards. It turned out that his employee had set up a personal business using the company's truck, equipment and time and was taking jobs away from his own boss while pulling down a pay check for work he was stealing
  
  
• One company owner experienced a similar revelation. Shortly after having his FleetBoss system in place, he walked down his office hallway to overhear a startling conversation in the break room. One of his drivers was complaining to another about the new GPS system, saying, "What am I going to do about all of my private customers, now that I can't use the company truck at night?''

Ask any owner "If you could ride in your company trucks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, would your productivity increase?" It doesn't matter if drivers are being paid by the hour or piecework; owners know their profits would increase and moonlighting would stop if they were always by their driver's side. Most company owners of service vehicles see dramatic increases in the number of service calls performed by drivers with the use of a FleetBoss system.

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