Monitoring the real-time availability status of your vehicles and assets is essential for efficient fleet operations. This feature helps reduce downtime, improve dispatch accuracy, and ensure that only ready and compliant vehicles are assigned to trips.
Overview
Effectively managing vehicle and asset availability is crucial for smooth fleet operations. With real-time status tracking, fleet managers gain instant visibility into the condition and availability of each vehicle and asset, ensuring timely dispatches and optimized fleet management.
- Enhanced visibility: Instantly access the status of all vehicles and assets, providing a comprehensive view of fleet operations to make informed decisions.
- Improved dispatch planning: Assign the appropriate vehicle to each task using real-time status data, ensuring the right equipment is dispatched at the right time.
- Increased safety & compliance: Ensure only safe and ready vehicles are dispatched by monitoring availability and avoiding the dispatch of unready or unsafe units.
- Reduced downtime & costs: Proactively track maintenance and utilization data, helping minimize vehicle downtime and repair costs while maximizing fleet productivity.
Updating real-time status
Fleet managers can track and manage asset readiness by updating status labels, such as in service, out of service for maintenance, or ready for dispatch, in the Motive Dashboard. This helps streamline workflows and prevent mistakes during trip planning.
To update a vehicle or assets availability:
- In the Fleet Dashboard, go to Assets Availability Status.
- Select the vehicle or asset you want to update.
- Choose the appropriate status from the dropdown.
- Click Confirm. The update will reflect immediately for all users.
If a vehicle is marked unavailable, drivers will be blocked from starting a trip with it. This helps ensure that only safe, ready assets are dispatched.
FAQs
How often is vehicle status updated?
Status updates happen in real time and are visible to all users as soon as they are changed.
Can drivers change the status themselves?
Typically, only fleet managers or authorized personnel can update status. Drivers can view but not modify statuses.
What happens if I try to dispatch an unavailable vehicle?
The system will block the dispatch and alert you that the vehicle is not ready for service.
Can I customize status labels?
Most systems offer standard labels, but some allow custom statuses to fit your workflow.
How does this help with maintenance scheduling?
By marking vehicles out of service for maintenance, you prevent accidental dispatch and ensure maintenance tasks are completed before the vehicle returns to service.
Will I get alerts when status changes?
You can enable notifications for status changes to stay informed about fleet readiness.
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