Construction Sector: Reducing costs and gaining efficiency

With growing demands for higher levels of customer service, increasing time and cost pressures as well as the burden of maintaining expensive machinery the construction industry is becoming more challenging; companies are all trying to find help to reduce their running costs, but at the same time gaining substantial workforce efficiencies, improving the reliability and the service to their customers.

Feeling the pinch?

Issues facing the industry are currently the same across many other sectors and they are that money has become very tight over the last few years. Whilst at the same time jobs needing to be completed quicker, to be coming in on budget and for your company also to be able to increase its profitability.

Fuel consumption, maintenance costs, operational costs, project costs are all rising. Along with the pressures for companies all to become aware of their carbon footprints and to try and reduce their carbon emissions. These are all things that add up and lead them to looking for those right solutions to answer these pains.

Providing solutions

This is where our solutions can help them with these pains. Our systems can offer them tracking solutions so they know where their plant or equipment is, consultancy solutions can show them how to generate reports so they can assess driver hours, run times of equipment and maintenance levels. By optimising asset utilisation, construction companies can reduce rental requirements and reduce assets on fleet. The system also allows them to plan service calls in real-time allowing them to plan projects more efficiently, manage contracts and also manage their fuel consumption more efficiently.

Overall these solutions allow them to achieve reasonable cost savings for their company.

	Fuel Savings Our customers experience an average of 10% savings on their fuel costs - in many cases, this saving reaches 15%. How? MiX Telematics’ proven telematics solutions include a range of fuel-efficiency-boosting features that enable fleet customers to better manage their drivers and vehicles.
	Hours of Service Use technology and services from MiX Telematics to help you comply with regional and national Hours of Service legislation in the USA and Europe.
	Vehicle Tracking Bringing the ability to track vehicles across the globe from your PC or even the palm of your hand, MiX Telematics offers the best and most comprehensive vehicle tracking solutions in the industry.