Case Study: Sanford and Hawley achieves a safer, 12% more fuel-efficient fleet with GPS Insight

Keeping a 125 Year Old Company On Track

Sanford and Hawley is a fourth/fifth-generation, 125-year-old family-owned lumber and building-supply company with a small fleet serving professional builders from locations in CT and MA. The company struggled with driver safety and distracted driving (drivers using phones and printed directions), high fuel costs and excessive idling, unauthorized personal use of vehicles, and no effective way to track or recover stolen assets.

They deployed GPS Insight with Garmin integration to provide hands-free directions and status messages, monitor speeding and idling (alerts after 15 minutes), and enforce geofencing. Within a month speeding violations fell from 50 to 27, average MPG increased 12%, idle time dropped substantially, a stolen truck was recovered (leading to an arrest), and the company realized immediate ROI and tighter control over vehicle use.

Sanford and Hawley

Bob Sanford

President, Sanford and Hawley