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Geotab x Interstate Batteries, from reactive repairs to proactive fleet health

~1 hour of idling removed per day per truck across 600+ vehicles; maintenance costs cut ~10%

Reactive and blind to proactive and visible

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Why it works

The case study earns its Efficiency tag by anchoring results in two concrete numbers: one hour of idling removed per truck per day and a roughly 10% cut in maintenance costs. The before-state is described in plain, specific terms, a GPS system that showed location and nothing else, with local managers pulled off battery sales to manually collect mileage data. The quote from Harrison about waiting for something bad to happen before acting gives the reactive-to-proactive framing real texture without being overwritten.

Steal this

Quantify the idle-reduction result and then immediately multiply it across the fleet size so the reader does the compounding math themselves. This turns a modest per-unit gain into an obviously large aggregate saving without the vendor having to claim a dramatic headline figure.

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  • Vendor Geotab
  • Customer Interstate Batteries
  • Industry Travel / Transport
  • Trigger Previous GPS system gave only location data, no vehicle health insight; distributed fleet made manual data collection unsustainable
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page