Fleet management can encompass a variety of meanings. Primarily, fleet management involves maintenance, tracking, finance, fuel management and driver behavior and actions.
Although fleet management is associated with transportation companies, such as trucking or buses, fleet management is important to any company which depends upon trucks or cars for their business operations. This includes non-private entities such as government and non profit organizations which depend upon over the road vehicles.
Fleet management may provide benefit when complying with state and federal driving and transportation policies, such as those mandated by the various departments of transportation.
Fleet management is software and system driven. A company or organization may wish to bring the operations in house or hire in a third party company to provide fleet management solutions including software, hardware, service and installation.
