A commercial door specialist has revealed savings of around £60,000 after introducing vehicle tracking to its fleet.

Midland Door Services invested in technology from Navman Wireless and as a result the company estimates it is now saving around two hours a day for each of its eight engineers.

"I've calculated that the system is saving me £28,000 a year in overtime costs alone,” said John Lunt, managing director, Midland Door Services.

"As a former field engineer I know that overestimating the time a job takes is a common practice, but because vehicle tracking allows us to see where all our vehicles are at any one time, there’s now no room for doubt.”

Vehicle tracking is also helping the company save money in other areas.

“Knowing exactly where our vehicles are has meant staff have stopped using company fuel when driving vans out of working hours,” added Lunt.

"It used to cost the company about £100 a week per vehicle, just for fuel used by staff outside work. By prohibiting private use of our vans and being able to monitor that with total accuracy, we’re saving around £31,000 a year in fuel."