Britain’s biggest vegetable supplier sees immediate return on 70 VL-Fleet trackers
Albert Bartlett is the UK’s biggest vegetable supplier, employing 400 people and run by the third generation of the same family.
It has two key sites in the UK. One of them is 2,500 hectares under cultivation at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. One in six of Britain’s onions passes through this facility.
In May 2008 the company invested in 70 VeriLocation trackers for its fleet of vehicles, including tractors and lorries.
And the information generated by the trackers generated an immediate return for the company.
It discovered that nearly half of its tractor drivers had been claiming an extra hour a day on their timesheets. This instantly saved the business £241 a day - a stunning £62,790 a year.
The VL-Fleet trackers actually removed the need for timesheets at all. The activity of each vehicle is summarised each day through the VeriLocation web portal.
The business found other efficiencies by analysing the GPS data. It discovered that some teams were taking up to 50 minutes longer to do the same journey than others.
By using the data as evidence, the company was able to enforce the most efficient routing for all journeys, saving more than three hours per week, per driver. That worked out as another £4,784 saved every year.
Best of all, because of the way Albert Bartlett financed its system with VeriLocation, it is seeing a huge return on investment month after month.
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