Case Study: Fire & Safety Commodities achieves better fleet visibility and reduced driver misuse with Automile

Fire & Safety Commodities Tackles Mobile-Workforce Challenges with Fleet Telematics

Fire & Safety Commodities, a 35-year-old Louisiana-based fire suppression service with about 48 employees, assigns company vehicles to its mobile technicians and needed better oversight of driving behavior. As the fleet grew they lacked visibility into speed, idling, and off-route or after-hours use — and their insurer recommended telematics — so they partnered with Automile to bring real-time fleet tracking and reporting to their vehicles.

Automile deployed cloud-based telematics devices that quickly revealed misuse (one vehicle was found being grossly abused within 48 hours) and provided ongoing insights like instances of more-than-hour-long idling, speeding and unnecessary stops. Those findings enabled targeted driver coaching, curbed risky behavior (which alone would have paid for a year of Automile), improved fleet efficiency and insurer confidence, and delivered an easy-to-use, no-contract solution management could enforce.

Fire & Safety Commodities

Trip Sutherlin

General Manager