Overview
Would you like to integrate Frotcom with a popular navigator? Do you need to communicate with your drivers in a simple, clear and economic way? Frotcom’s Integrated Navigation module is your choice.
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Your trucking company has to pick up a load from a customer’s premises. You check the closest available truck. With the click of a button, you send the pick up location to your driver’s navigator, along with clear instructions.
Easy, no? This is Frotcom’s Integrated Navigation. It allows the interaction between fleet managers and drivers through a navigator in the vehicle.
It is possible for fleet managers to send destinations to the vehicle’s navigator (clients, loading and unloading places or others), along with instructions; managers can also send and receive text messages.
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Drivers will be
able to read the messages received from the office and to reply to those messages, or to
create and send new messages. Drivers will also be able to
select a destination point received from the office and navigate to it.
Frotcom’s
Integrated Navigation module is designed for all companies needing to be always connected with their drivers: service and maintenance, sales forces, distribution or transportation.
Benefits
Here are some of the benefits associated to the use of Frotcom's
Integrated Navigation:
- Minimize fuel consumption
Drivers will be able to navigate to their destinations; no more driving around;
- Get there on time
Getting lost on the way to a customer is a thing of the past; be there on time and improve the confidence level;
- Increase productivity
Your drivers will be able to complete more orders without extra strain; just use their time better;
- Save on phone calls, too
You don’t have to spell out addresses to your drivers, on the phone. Just text them using Frotcom.
How it works
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The Integrated Navigation module provides Frotcom with an interface for Garmin navigators, allowing not only interaction of the office with the drivers, through text, but also the possibility of navigation to destinations received from the office.
The Frotcom device in the vehicle is connected through a special cable to the Garmin navigator. Most Garmin navigators compatible with the Fleet Management Interface 2.0 norm (FMI 2.0) can be used. Please contact us for a complete list of compatible models.
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Destinations such as loading and unloading places can be sent directly from the office to a driver’s navigator, along with written instructions. The driver will just have to press the Go! key on the touch screen to navigate to the received location. Two sorts of destinations can be sent from the office: Frotcom places (points of interest such as customer locations) and free map addresses. A flag icon will show up on the navigator, to mark the arrival of a new destination.
Text messages can also be sent and received, as a cheaper and more efficient alternative to phone calls, specially in the case of international transports. Text messages are immediately displayed on the navigator. The driver will be able to reply. All messages sent and received are kept for future reference.
The Integrated Navigation module is based on a flat monthly fee. You can send as many messages and destinations as you want without paying more.
Main features
Here is a list of the main features in Frotcom's
Integrated Navigation module:
- Easy to use navigation (truck versions available too)
- Send destination locations to drivers from Frotcom
- Text communication between office and drivers
- All outgoing and incoming messages saved for future reference
- Delivery reports for all messages
- Flat monthly fee: use as many text messages as you need, without extra costs