Background

E.Stott & Sons Ltd (Stotts Coaches) are one of West Yorkshires leading coach operators. A family run company with more than 25 years experience in the Bus and Coach industry, today they operate a fleet of more than 30 vehicles and have built up a reputation for reliability and professionalism.

Supplying local bus services in and around the Huddersfield area, Stotts also operate coaches throughout the UK on private hire, contracts, express services and coach holidays.

Utilising their Coach fleet, Stotts operate a number of express services for a large UK coach operator however have in the past had difficulty in providing evidence that they delivered to their service level agreements. Additionally, the culture within Stotts was one where the drivers would leave engines running for long periods of time while idle, wasting fuel.

Driven also by their desire to eliminate phone calls made to drivers while mobile combined with a desire to calculate carbon usage for public sector contracts, Stotts looked for a better way to monitor the use of their fleet.

The Solution

Stotts identified the benefits a vehicle tracking system could have for them and subsequently investigated three solutions from Navman, Fleetsmart and ROAD ANGEL. After further investigation they decided to install ROAD ANGEL Fleet Live Track units to all their coach fleet.

This was partly due to ROAD ANGEL’S ability supply the units for outright purchase as opposed to an ongoing contract, and partly due to the ROAD ANGEL Fleet system being by far the most cost effective.

Costing only 50p per vehicle per day, the system delivers:

• Exceptional value for money, paying for itself in as little as six months
• Real Time tracking of their fleet on one map
• The ability to view detailed journey and mileage data, with breadcrumb trails
• The ability to monitor the length of time engines are unnecessarily left running
• Powerful reporting including journey summaries, vehicle and fleet day summaries, out of hours usage, servicing intervals, over speed and idle times.

Benefits

Since installing the Live Track system across their entire coach fleet, Stott’s have reduced idle times by “at least an hour per day, per vehicle”.  This equates to a saving in fuel costs of over £20,000 each year!

Stott’s can also now provide evidence to their customers that they have delivered to their service level agreements, with the ability to view detailed journey reports. Carl Stott, Director of Stott’s commented:

Not only has the system more than paid for itself, Stott’s can be reassured they are complying with duty of care obligations and delivering an exceptional level of service to their customers.