Mapon Blog

Here we write about our latest updates and share our knowledge by publishing insightful articles on how to use fleet management telematics solutions to take your business to a new level!

How to measure and improve fleet efficiency in your company?

How to measure and improve fleet efficiency in your company?

When your business grows, your fleet grows along with it. Eventually, it becomes quite a challenge to manage it and ensure high fleet efficiency levels. The more vehicles you have, the harder it is to understand whether it’s enough, too much or too little. This is an issue many private companies and state organisations face today, so we, at Mapon, created a brand new fleet efficiency solution that will help you decide what changes your fleet needs to improve its overall performance. After all, would you want to analyse it all by yourself or rather trust a convenient system? 
Tacho Hotel – a stand alone solution for hosting multiple tachograph cards

Tacho Hotel – a stand alone solution for hosting multiple tachograph cards

If your company provides remote digital tachograph data download services to other businesses, you know the struggle of keeping all the tachograph cards organised and available at all times. Storing smart cards at clients’ offices and ensuring their availability 24/7 can be a mess. Similarly, hosting tens or hundreds of cards in your office can easily turn into a cable and card reader chaos. Luckily, there is a solution to avoid such situations – a stand alone tachograph remote download card hotel, or, as we call it, the Tacho Hotel. 
Driving Log – a new, convenient solution to route logging

Driving Log – a new, convenient solution to route logging

Manual counting of every employee’s work and private routes takes up a lot of time and may cause unnecessary expenses for the company. To help our partners and clients avoid such risks, we’ve introduced a new feature, the Driving Log, to our system. The solution allows you to set private and work routes as well as choose a time frame for routing purposes for the whole week, enabling automatic change of the route type and saving many hours spent on reporting every month.

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Easy user access rights management for medium-sized and large businesses

Easy user access rights management for medium-sized and large businesses

In companies, where many employees have access to Mapon system, it’s common to differentiate access rights to certain information and sections. It’s a complicated and time-consuming routine for many account administrators who need to adjust access rights for every user individually. To reduce the effort, we improved the processes of creating access rights groups for users.
Vehicle Booking: Save Time and Save Your Fleet Costs

Vehicle Booking: Save Time and Save Your Fleet Costs

It might seem so simple: deciding who in your business can use a vehicle and who can’t. However, when schedules clash and overlap, and seemingly all the cars are taken at once or one specific vehicle gets used more than the others, it suddenly stops being so simple. For this reason, Mapon has developed the Vehicle Booking solution for our system. It is extremely easy to use, yet very beneficial for a business, beyond its seemingly basic purpose. So what are the benefits of Vehicle Booking?
If It Moves, We Can Track It

If It Moves, We Can Track It

When talking about GPS tracking, most people think about vehicle tracking. In fact, there are quite a lot of applications for GPS tracking in other industries. Let’s go through a few of them in order to get a full picture of the solutions we can provide.
The Beneficial Step to a New GPS Tracking Platform Provider

The Beneficial Step to a New GPS Tracking Platform Provider

GPS telematics platforms are evolving at such a pace that the amount of money they could save for your businesses is currently truly breathtaking. Some years ago it was enough to provide an option to see the vehicles on the map and their historical routes (and nothing more.) The customer was satisfied. Nowadays it’s standard to expect a complete fleet management solution which includes numerous reports, data from vehicle onboard computers (CAN), temperature monitoring, fuel control, maintenance planning and reminders, driver behaviour analysis and, most importantly, API integrations with their internal ERP systems so that data travels automatically from one system to another.
Vehicle Inspection: It Takes Minutes to Do, but Will Save Hours of Repairs!

Vehicle Inspection: It Takes Minutes to Do, but Will Save Hours of Repairs!

To keep your vehicle running well and efficiently, you need to give it an overall check on a regular basis. On average it is advised to do a thorough check on your vehicle every 1000 km or so. Letting an issue go unchecked or unfound for too long can result in growing expenses for repairs or even put your driver and other members of the traffic at risk. For this reason, Mapon has created a tool that allows you to go through all the necessary tests for your vehicle in our mobile Mapon GO app – Vehicle Inspections.
Tired of overpaying for road tolls? Mapon has the solution

Tired of overpaying for road tolls? Mapon has the solution

As anyone in the long-distance trucking industry will tell you, driving just across Europe is not as easy as just pressing the gear pedal and heading straight. From congestion charging to toll bridges and tunnels, there are so many different things a truck driver might have to pay for nowadays. In this blog post, we will discuss some of the more prominent examples of road taxation in Europe (because discussing all the various methods just in Europe would require an encyclopedia) and also how Mapon’s solutions could help you save money in this regard. What gets tolled?