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Frotcom offers an easy and convenient way to pay tolls in Bulgaria

Frotcom enables fleet vehicles to declare tolls on Bulgarian motorways, high ways, and main roads. On 1st March 2020, Bulgaria introduced a new electronic system of toll collection when using paid motorways, highways and main roads. The new system collects information corresponding to the distance traveled and applied to the designated total of 3,115 km and calculates fees for all motor vehicles over 3.5tons of category M2, M3, N2, and N3.…

Green Hydrogen can be cheaper than Diesel by 2050

An independent study carried by BloombergNEF (BNEF) reckons that heavy-duty vehicles might be inclined to switch to alternative fuels, like green hydrogen, shortly. The study entitled “Hydrogen Economy Outlook” conducted by BloombergNEF (BNEF) concluded that the falling cost of making green hydrogen from water, using renewable electricity like wind turbines and solar panels, offers a promising route to cutting emissions, at a manageable price.…

GPS vehicle tracking and sensor monitoring

Managing your office from a vehicle would be difficult, but managing your vehicles from the office is not necessarily much easier. Unless you use the right tools.

Set up Severity Levels in your Frotcom Fleet Alarms

Frotcom now allows you to create severity levels for user-defined alarms with a brand new feature. Any alarm set by the users is always important. Still, there is a noticeable tendency in larger fleets to have numerous unprocessed alarms, and that can prevent a critical alarm from being processed - or even noticed - by the user in time. To overcome this, Frotcom is glad to announce the new Severity Level feature, which will give users the possibility to create up to four severity levels for their alarms and to monitor them in a much simpler and efficient way. To configure your severity…

How can Frotcom help fleets reduce fuel costs?

Whether you manage a large or small vehicle fleet, we can help you save fuel, reduce operational expenditure costs, and grow your business. For most vehicles on the market today, the impact of eco-driving vs. aggressive driving on fuel consumption can exceed 30%. To save on fuel costs, you can implement some measures right away, such as providing training sessions about driving behavior to your drivers and the negative impact of excessive…

Improve your Driving Times using Restriction rules

Learn how to better optimize your Driving Times using Frotcom’s Restriction Rules functionality. A set of options is available for you to control and improve your fleet Driving times using Restriction rules. These rules allow you to calculate Nearest vehicles and Directions, both for a single driver or a Driving Team. To activate the driving time restriction rules, first, enable the option in Administration > Account - Driving conditions - Driving time restriction. To start calculating Directions and Nearest Vehicles you just need to open the Settings popup, select Use driving time…

Passenger Land Transport fight for survival during COVID-19

The passenger land transport industry is practically stopped due to the pandemic containment measures. As the COVID-19 pandemic containment measures forced millions of people to stay home, passenger transport operations had an almost overnight standstill for hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Apart from limited urban services, some companies report an activity decrease of at least 90% for intercity and 100% for…

4 Top Trends in Fleet Management

Discover 4 fleet management trends that will help you reduce costs, mitigate risk, and improve productivity. According to a survey from TD Bank in 2019, more than half of fleet managers (52%) worry about driver shortages, economic conditions, and mostly about keeping up with technology in their fleet management activities. Fleet managers all over the world recognize the increasing importance of integrating technology in their daily activities…

Mobile workforce management

You monitor the screen in the dispatch room as each transportation service progresses. Immediately you spot a service with an Estimated Time of Arrival later than planned. You can act before it's too late and the delivery time period is missed.

Electric Vehicles: Recession or acceleration due to COVID-19?

The COVID-19 pandemic has been producing economic, political, and social disruptions not seen in decades, and the impact on car production industries has already been massive in countries around the world. The Electric vehicles (EV) market is particularly vulnerable in the recent pandemic scenario. According to research from GlobalData, the lower oil prices as a result of the COVID-19 crisis could reduce electric vehicle demand and impair European…