Birmingham City Council Take Control Of Their Fleet

In these belt-tightening times, many councils are looking for more efficient ways to manage their services. Now CMS Supatrak, suppliers of GPS tracking systems has provided Birmingham City Council with a vehicle tracking system to support their fleet management needs.

Birmingham City Council is the largest local authority in Europe today and they required a specialist vehicle tracking system for over three hundred of their waste management and street cleaning vehicles.

Jason Airey, Managing Director at CMS SupaTrak, said, "We began working with Birmingham City Council as they needed a system that could monitor the precise location of any vehicle in their fleet of street cleaners, recycling trucks and refuse collectors. With all these vehicles now visible on the web based SupaTrak mapping system they have been able to monitor and manage their fleet in new, more efficient ways."

Mark Childs, GIS Project Manager for Waste Management Services at Birmingham City Council added, "Until now, we have had no definite way of knowing where our vehicles are at any given time. SupaTrak's capabilities have enabled us to monitor our assets and manage them more effectively. This has brought about increased efficiencies throughout our fleet."

As well as SupaTrak saving the Council considerable cost it also aids them in conforming to new government duty of care and taxation guidelines and, above all, helps them to take control of these valuable assets.

CMS SupaTrak, specialists in fleet management and satellite tracking offer SupaTrak as a cost-effective and easy to install system which can be scaled to any size of organisation. Birmingham City Council have also been trialling CMS SupaTrak's EcoTrak fuel saving technology in its compactor vehicles.

This helps monitor individual driving behaviours which can be used to help organise training to improve driver efficiency resulting in lower emissions and reduced fuel costs. The trial has shown fuel cost savings of up to £1,700 per annum on each of the compactor vehicles.

For more information on the range of systems available from CMS Supatrak, please visit www.supatrak.com

Editor's Note: CMS SupaTrak is represented by the search engine optimisation (SEO) team at Top Position, the Your browser may not support display of this image. online advertising consultancy. Please direct all press queries to Tina Clough. Email: tina@topposition.co.uk or call: 01623 726233.

Back to News