Kinesis telematics deployed across Flightlink Chauffeurs’ fleet

Flightlink Chauffeurs has equipped its fleet with Kinesis telematics to monitor the movements and performance of its fleet of luxury vehicles and chauffeurs in real time. 

The latest vehicle tracking technology also integrates with fuel and credit card payments from UK Fuels.

Swindon-based Flightlink Chauffeurs provide executive travel services along the M4 corridor with a fleet of Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

The company's managing director Cecilia van Zyl said: “Unlike most operators in our sector we fully own our fleet and employ our drivers.

"That’s because we can manage service levels and attain the high standards required for quality accreditation.

“Kinesis is important as it allows us to closely monitor everything, whether it be precise arrival and departure times, auditing chauffeur hours and driving performance, or analysing mile by mile fuel consumption.” 

Flightlink’s chauffeurs are equipped with ID key fobs which match the driver to the vehicle, so any vehicle can be driven by any driver, with tracking data provided by vehicle and by driver.

With Kinesis providing advanced driving performance data, good and safe driving is encouraged; a key requirement for maintaining the company’s reputation and quality of service credentials.

Van Zyl said: “With the driver performance feature, we’ve already seen an improvement in driving scores, up from 70 to 80%.

"The improvement in these scores would be presented to the insurance company and could result in a reduction in rates. 

“And being Google Maps based is a big benefit as we not only get a familiar and easy web mapping interface showing vehicle movements, but we also get live traffic data so we can alert the chauffeur.

“Kinesis and the card integration has certainly helped boost our productivity and we reckon it has already reduced the administrative work by 30%.  

"From a business perspective, Kinesis is proving a big asset in allowing us to optimise and enhance our services by providing both excellent live data and management information.”