Shred-it is the world’s largest mobile secure document and paper shredding company, operating more than 140 branches worldwide and servicing over 150,000 customers including the world's top intelligence and security agencies.
The company opened its first franchise in the UK in 1999 and currently services more than 17,000 customers across its national network with a fleet of over 150 7.5 tonne vehicles.
Prior to the installation of the Trimble system, Shred-it’s fleet was not fully equipped with a solution to monitor where a vehicle was at any given time, or how the units were being driven.
Trimble’s GeoManager Fleet Management and Driver Safety solution was deployed across the entire Shread-it fleet, enabling managers to identify, manage and improve key areas such as vehicle utilisation, maintenance planning and customer service. Fleet managers are also able to pick up on location, diagnostics and exception alerts to help decrease fuel costs, increase vehicle utilisation and reduce vehicle component wear and tear which in turn helps reduce vehicle downtime.
Trimble GeoManager Driver Safety is an advanced telematics solution that allows fleet managers to monitor driver behaviour and provides comprehensive analysis of manoeuvres, such as hard acceleration and braking, aggressive turns and speed. The solution also provides instant alerts to the driver allowing them to modify their driving behaviour immediately.
Audits are run daily on vehicles to compare driver logs which have essentially provided a “productivity check” for individual drivers. Shred-it is also able to pick up on any vehicles across the fleet that are being under-utilised and what vehicles aren’t being used at all. This has helped them to increase efficiencies, leading to a reported 8% growth in the business, achieved without introducing any additional vehicles to the fleet.
John Gavin, project & standards lead at Shred-it UK, commented: ‘We were particularly impressed by the driver safety in-vehicle hardware that alerts drivers to behaviours outside set guidelines. They are provided with real-time feedback about their driving behaviour so they can make immediate changes to their driving style. This has proven beneficial to accurately measure and mitigate fleet safety risks and we have seen a difference in that our drivers have slowed down in regards to speeding and we have seen an increase in driver score.’
Mark Forrest, general manager of Trimble Field Service Management, added: ‘With a company consistently striving to meet and exceed customer expectations, streamlining business processes with the best technology available to support this was essential. From having little visibility of their fleet, Shred-it are now able to accurately report on and manage all aspects of its fleet down to individual drivers, which has led to increased productivity, improved driver safety and reduced operational costs.’