Vehicle fleet management plays a vital role in improving daily operations

An economic scenario characterised by inflation, recession and constant fluctuations in fuel prices has posed a major challenge to fleet operating costs and has required businesses to become more efficient on a day-to-day basis in order to maintain their productivity and profitability and contribute to a stronger  bottom line.

In this challenging paradigm, technology proves its position as one of the best allies for businesses to obtain results and build resilience. In fact, the latest  Fleet Technology Trends Europe 2025 survey shows that 75% of fleet managers using fleet management solutions rated them as “extremely or very beneficial” when it came to managing their fleets.  

Also, the report reveals that GPS tracking is, for the fourth year in a row, the top fleet management technology most utilised in Europe. This is  because company owners trust fleet management technologies to build resilience and get results.

The 1,318 fleet managers, mobility professionals and business owners who participated in the Verizon Connect Fleet Technology Trends Survey 2025 shared powerful insights and future trends for fleet-based businesses looking to transform their daily operations. 

Fleet management to raise the bar on daily operations

1. Real insights as real-time triggers to improve daily efficiency

Using fleet management insights as real-time triggers, such as distance travelled, idling time, long or unauthorised stops, driver behaviour and a breakdown of daily costs, gives fleet managers a clear picture of what’s happening. This then allows them to analyse the best way to improve within these  key areas in order to get more out of their resources while at the same time reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Our fleet management solution provides key information such as: 

• Daily report - Breakdown of vehicles’ daily movement.
• Distance travelled report - Breakdown of total distance travelled. Can be filtered by location, vehicle, or geofence. 
• Geofence report - How much timervehicles spend at identified geofence locations.
• Travel and stops report - Complete history for vehicles over a specified time.
• Cost analysis report - Breakdown of total daily costs. Includes driving time, time on-site, and wasted fuel.
• Return trip summary report - Summary of return trips to selected geofences, including on-site time per stop, and per day.

Download the Fleet Technology Trends Report Europe 2025 to learn more about how fleet management can help businesses  improve fleet operations, reduce fleet costs and contribute to a healthy bottom line. 

1. Monitoring driver behaviour to boost team safety 

Powerful fleet management solutions provide key insights about driving behaviour that can help improve this paramount area. Information about when hard braking, quick starts and harsh cornering occurred are reported and rated as moderate or severe.

Our Verizon Connect fleet management solution provides key reports and information about:  

• Speeding report - Speeding violations over specified speed limits.
• Driving style summary report - Summary of harsh driving violations. Includes hard braking, cornering, and quick starts.
• Harsh driving incident report - Breakdown of harsh driving violations. Includes hard braking, cornering, and quick starts.
• Exception report - Breakdown of driver violations such as excessive idling, out of hours driving, and unauthorised stops in a given location.
• CANbus driving style summary report - Summary of fuel consumption, distance travelled, engine hours, and harsh driving events.

Download the Fleet Technology Trends Report Europe 2025 to learn more about how fleet management can help businesses boost fleet safety and operations.

1. Improve your office team productivity

Digitalisation can transform not only daily fleet operations, but also a  whole business. 

Office staff can benefit from all the information available with a  GPS fleet management solution such as a team’s work hours, when they started and ended their working day as well as any overtime they do. This helps to calculate payroll and simplify the process meaning more time can be spent on other important business activities.

Our Verizon Connect fleet management solution provides key reports and information about:  

• Daily timecard report - Breakdown of employee’s daily hours. Based on the company's work hours.
• Weekly timesheet report - Summary of employee’s daily hours over the week, including start and end time, and overtime. 
• Payroll summary report - Summary of employee’s daily hours for a specified period. Based on the  company’s work hours.  
• User activity report - List of all active users. Includes login stats and reports run.

According to the Fleet Technology Trends Survey 2025, 56% of businesses have improved office staff productivity since implementing a GPS asset tracking solution. 

1. Simplify compliance with ease 

Currently, roadside checks carried out by authorities such as ROADPOL reveal that the most common offences are excessive driving hours and manipulating the digital tachograph which results in costly fines and, depending on the infraction, can lead to the van being immediately immobilised (1). So, it is key to manage compliance within a  business and the good news is,  a fleet management system can help. Here’s how: 

• Drivers’ time - Monitoring the driver’s driving times to confirm that they comply with current regulations.
• Rest periods - Check that the driver takes the stipulated rest periods to promote safety.
• Remote tachograph data downloads - Remotely downloads tachograph data to analyse the development of the day and that the driving times and rest periods specified by the tachograph law are being complied with. In addition to data collection, it retains information on the activity of each driver and HGV so that it is always available and archived in case it needs to be shared with the authorities.

According to the Fleet Technology Trends Survey 2025, 64% of businesses have improved tachograph and regulatory compliance since implementing a GPS fleet management solution. 

Download the Fleet Technology Trends Report Europe 2025 to learn more about how GPS fleet management solutions can help simplify compliance with tachograph regulation.

Advance your business with fleet management.

TheFleet Technology Trends Report 2025 uncovers even more ways fleets are using technology to overcome business challenges, achieve their goals, improve operating efficiency and drive down costs. 

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Sources:

(1): https://www.roadpol.eu/index.php/truck-violation-rate-solid-operation-shows