The developers of a vehicle management system recently made an eBook available that spells out the benefits of monitoring fuel usage and reveals six key steps to lowering fuel costs.

Even though prices at the pumps continue to drop, monitoring fleet fuel usage is an essential way to reduce fuel costs further and improve the profitability of a landscape business. To help with this process, Verizon put together a guide that is now available for a free download.

This eBook explains how to track fuel expenses, and in so doing, them in several ways such as: using fuel cards to monitor purchasing amounts of each of your crew members, quickly identifying additional expenses due to side jobs or fuel theft, planning better routes to and from jobs to shorten driving time and lessen fuel usage, and keeping vehicles running longer by monitoring idle times and performing routine check-ups.

Verizon's Network Fleet, a location-based vehicle management system, and their WEX fuel card program, are designed to help companies improve the control of fuel purchases and spending behaviors as well as save time.

The fuel eBook can be downloaded here.