Specialist Maintenance Company Axis Chooses Masternaut
Masternaut, the UK’s leading online Telematics Service Provider, has won a major order from Axis, the leading social housing maintenance and refurbishment company. Axis will use Masternaut’s Masternaut solution to cut out unnecessary cost in this low-growth economy, and at the same time maintain critical SLAs.
Axis offers a two-hour emergency call-out for its housing association clients – in addition to scheduled maintenance – and can now instantly locate the nearest engineer to a quick-response job and re-assign its fleet accordingly. As well as real-time visibility, Masternaut will enable Axis to capture and analyse strategic fleet information and optimise its entire fleet, which covers housing from London to Birmingham.
“We inherited Vehicle Tracking in some vans when we took over a contract for Denne Maintenance and immediately recognised the benefits of it,” commented Liam Hayes, Performance Management Assistant, Axis. “As most of our workload is highly reactive, it is important that we can rapidly deploy our engineers. Masternaut allows us to see immediately where every one of our vehicles is and to send the closest and best-equipped engineer for the job.”
Axis will use Masternaut’s advanced reporting tools to monitor driver performance, mileage, speed and location as well as monitor out-of-hours usage. Masternaut can also alert fleet managers of vehicle service intervals. “Masternaut makes all fleet information highly accessible,” continued Liam Hayes. “Masternaut’s consultants worked with us to extract the information we need and showed how to use this data to generate cost and fuel savings throughout the fleet.
“We’re now implementing a points system to highlight and manage speeding trends, which will improve the performance of all our vehicles and help us with compliance issues,” Liam Hayes concluded.
“Reactive businesses such as Axis have to monitor their vehicles so closely that vehicle tracking can provide a business-critical tool,” Steve Towe, Managing Director – Europe, Masternaut. “There are huge cost savings available in this low-growth economy through the effective deployment of telematics – short term these can reach around ten percent. Strategic analysis in the long term can also unlock further hidden benefits to really improve the bottom line.