Courier and haulage specialist Sprintshift has dramatically reduced overtime and increased backloads after introducing vehicle tracking to its vehicle fleet.

Before employing the use of the technology, Sprintshift, which has a fleet of more than 25 vehicles, used a timesheet-based administration system for processing overtime and driver hours.

However, a vehicle tracking system has enabled it to reduce timesheet errors and false entries, time wastage between routes and increase fleet optimisation.

Justin Hayes, Sprintshift transport manager, said: “Our drivers finish their working days at different times and some will often not return to the office until 6.30pm, when all office-based staff have gone.

“Consequently, they can claim to have finished at 7.30pm and gain an extra hour.

"Now I can check these times against vehicles movements.

“We can also monitor their vehicles’ movements for the entire working day and can see if they have parked up for longer than they should.

"If drivers haven’t got valid reasons for stopping for protracted periods of time, we then cut costs by deducting this from their wages.”

The tracking system has been provided by Navman Wireless.