Fleet management for home care services

A home care and support service runs many small vehicles, driven by many care workers, on short, repeated rounds. The fleet changes hands often, vehicles are kept at employees' homes and the budget is tight. Dadycar tracks the vehicle, the driver and the real cost.

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Three facts for a fleet on a tight budget

  • Free up to 50 vehicles: the entry plan tracks the fleet with no on-board equipment and at no cost.
  • With or without a device: a GPS-OBD device or a connected OEM vehicle, as the vehicles allow.
  • Three modular pillars: fleet management, telematics, car sharing. You only switch on what serves you.

What area managers live with

  • Nobody knows who drives what any more. Turnover is high, assignments change every week, keys pass from one care worker to another.
  • Licences are not re-checked. Nobody has the time to check a validity date at every hire, or to follow it afterwards.
  • Kilometres and costs go missing. Between mileage allowances, fuel and small expenses, the real cost of a round stays vague.

What Dadycar brings to a home care service

The tool is built for teams with no dedicated fleet manager. One branch, some care workers, some vehicles: the rest updates itself and comes up at the right moment.

Assignment and scheduling

The day, week or month schedule shows who has which vehicle, named or in the pool. An arrival or a departure is reflected immediately in the assignments.

Licences tracked with their expiry

The Documents module carries driving licences and their expiry date, employee by employee, in the same place as registration certificates and insurance certificates.

Care worker records and RFID badge

Every care worker has their record, their role, their site and, if you use it, their badge to open the shared vehicle.

Kilometres actually covered

Trips and odometer history, read by telematics or entered by hand, give the real mileage of every vehicle.

Expenses and mobility costs

Costs per vehicle, with or without an invoice, attach themselves to the right vehicle, the right site and the right supplier.

Due date reminders

Roadworthiness test, insurance, scheduled servicing: due dates come up with a named owner, with no spreadsheet to depend on.

How it works

  1. 1Create your sites and your care workers. Branches, offices and employees give the fleet its structure (employees and sites).
  2. 2Load the documents. Licences, registration certificates and insurance certificates carry their expiry date (document management).
  3. 3Track kilometres and costs. Trips and mileage feed the cost per vehicle and the due date reminders.

Related industries and roles

  • Healthcare and emergency services: home visits and on-call vehicles (see the page).
  • Service and maintenance: intervention rounds and shared vehicles (see the page).
  • HR manager: licences, assignments and arrivals and departures (see the page).

Your fleet, your care workers, live

Bring one branch and its dozen vehicles: we show the assignment, the licences and the cost per vehicle.

Your questions before getting started

  • “Care workers keep the vehicle at home.” Time slots limit collection to working time; the home-to-work journey is excluded.
  • “Our teams will refuse to be tracked.” Telematics is a separate module: you can run the fleet with no device at all.
  • “We have nobody to administer software.” Due dates and document expiries come up on their own, with a named owner.

Frequently asked questions

Can the vehicles of home care workers be located?

Yes, for specific purposes: safety of people, goods and vehicles, tracking and billing a service, allocating resources for scattered visits, compliance with the rules on using the vehicle (CNIL).

Can you track an employee who keeps their vehicle at home?

Not during home-to-work journeys. Collecting location data outside working time, breaks included, is not allowed, and the employee must be able to switch off collection or transmission outside working time (CNIL).

Can location tracking be used to calculate working time?

Only as a secondary means, when no other system allows it. It cannot be used to monitor an employee permanently or to check compliance with speed limits (CNIL).

How long should a vehicle's location data be kept?

Two months by default. One year to optimise rounds or to prove a visit. Five years when the data is used to track working time (CNIL).

Who must be told before a vehicle tracking system is installed?

Staff representatives are informed or consulted before any decision to install. Every employee receives individual information: data controller, purposes, legal basis, recipients, retention period, rights of access and objection (CNIL).

How do you track the validity of care workers' driving licences?

The Documents module carries the driving licence with its expiry date, attached to the employee. Due dates come up in the reminders, with a named owner, which avoids redoing the check by hand at every arrival.

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