Fleet management for cleaning and security

A cleaning or security company runs its vans between dozens of customer sites, often before dawn or after closing. Vehicles pass from one team to the next, carry equipment and bear a thin margin. Every euro per vehicle counts, and every visit must be provable.

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Three facts for a multi-site provider

  • Zones and time slots per site: a rule covers a perimeter and a slot, not just a point on the map.
  • With or without a device: a GPS-OBD device or a connected OEM vehicle, depending on the age and status of the vehicle.
  • Free up to 50 vehicles, then €6 excl. VAT: the cost of the tool stays comparable to the cost of a vehicle.

What operations managers live with

  • The customer asks for proof of the visit. With no time-stamped trace of the vehicle on their site, the discussion is settled from memory.
  • The vehicle changes team and site. Nobody knows who had it the night the on-board equipment went missing.
  • The margin is too thin for a slip. A van off the road or an unusual fill-up shows up immediately in the contract's result.

What Dadycar brings to a service provider

Here the vehicle is a means of production attached to a customer contract. The point is not to watch the teams, but to link every kilometre and every euro to the site where they were spent.

Site zones and idle time

Every customer site becomes a geographic zone. The idle-time-in-zone signal reports abnormally long stops.

Charge-back to the customer

The Cost allocation tab of the dashboard splits costs by site and by entity, the basis of a service charge-back that holds up in a contract review.

Assignment per team

The day, week or month schedule shows which team had which vehicle, named or in the pool, night shifts included.

Condition reports at every rotation

Automatic inspection forms record the state of the vehicle between two teams, with the items and conditions you define.

Anomaly detection

The rules engine reports potential fraud, data inconsistencies and departures from contractual compliance, separate from sensor alerts.

Cost per vehicle under control

Expenses, fuel and vehicles off the road feed a cost of ownership per vehicle and per site, compared with a target.

How it works

  1. 1Create your customer sites. Every site carries its address, its staff and its vehicles (sites and employees).
  2. 2Set the zones and the hours. Geofencing qualifies the visits, night slots and public holidays included.
  3. 3Split and check. Cost allocation breaks the costs down, anomaly detection flags the gaps.

Related industries and roles

  • Service and maintenance: intervention rounds and on-board equipment (see the page).
  • Construction: vans assigned to one site after another (see the page).
  • Maintenance and operations manager: downtime, servicing, availability (see the page).

Your sites, drawn during the demo

Bring three customer sites and five vehicles: we set the zones, the night slots and the cost breakdown.

Your questions before getting started

  • “Our teams work at night.” Time slots are defined per day and per site, public holidays included.
  • “The vehicle serves several teams.” Pool assignment and an inspection at every rotation record who had it and in what state.
  • “Our vans are old.” A GPS-OBD device reports the position without depending on a manufacturer service.

Frequently asked questions

How often does a light commercial vehicle need a roadworthiness test?

A category N1 van takes its first periodic roadworthiness test during the six months before the fourth anniversary of its first registration, then every two years (service-public.fr).

Is the additional emissions test compulsory on a van?

Yes. The additional technical check must take place during the two months before the end of the one-year period following each successful periodic roadworthiness test (service-public.fr).

How long do you have to name the driver after an offence?

The legal representative of the legal entity must send the driver's identity within forty-five days of the fine notice being sent or handed over. Failing that, they face a fine (service-public.fr).

Can the vehicles of a cleaning company be located?

Yes, in particular to track and bill a transport service, to ensure the safety of goods and people and to allocate resources to scattered jobs. Permanent monitoring of an employee is excluded (CNIL).

How long should data kept as proof of a visit be retained?

One year when location data is used to optimise rounds or to provide proof of a job. Two months by default in other cases (CNIL).

How do you charge vehicles back to several customer sites?

Every vehicle carries its site and its expenses. The Cost allocation tab of the dashboard splits costs by site and by entity, filterable by period and exportable, which feeds the billing of the service directly.

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