How a Tank Monitor Can Help You Exceed Your Business Goals The Summer season is the perfect time to audit your customer data, conduct equipment maintenance, set your budgets for the upcoming seasons, and fit in a vacation. It’s also a great time to assess how technology can help you become more efficient.Tank monitoring technology…
If you’re reading this and the sun is still rising every day, it’s likely a great time to improve your profitability in your Service (and Installation) department. In the past, the Service department had traditionally been a loss leader for most dealers and, therefore, represented one of the biggest and quickest opportunities for a dealer…
Are you a marketing company? A financial services company? An employee benefits company? Or are you a delivery company that spends more than half of your overhead on a fleet of vehicles and on wages for drivers, dispatchers, and mechanics? Picture yourself back in the 1980’s and let’s say that you were in the business…
If your drivers are making the right number of deliveries (20-30) per day and they are working the right number of hours (8-10) per day, AND you are dispatching the right way to optimize the deliveries based on the data you have (i.e., how many gallons are in your customers’ tanks), your trucks should come…
A year ago, as we were exiting 2021, there was a lot of relief to be finally leaving perhaps the darkest times we have seen in our lives. Leaving that in the rearview mirror was exactly what we needed. We ended 2021 with a sense of relief and a sense of excitement. The world wouldn’t…
There is a scene that is attributed to Law School professors dating back to the 1930’s, telling students to “look to your left and then look to your right. By the end of this year, one of the two will no longer be in Law School”. In other words, if you don’t put in all…
Imagine if you had a job opening for a position with the following requirements: • Pulling data from BOS, budget, etc. • Creating automated custom reports for management on customer gain/losses, budget variances, delivery history, and performance, service data. • Analyzing your customer data for outliers • Working with the dispatch team and the BOS…
In 2020 we told you ADEPT ™ would improve your deliveries, and your profits. We were not guessing, and we were not wrong. Today, we are sharing ADEPT results. It’s happening. Hope you’re sitting down… Disclosures Results from January 2022 *All the deliveries by ADEPT clients in Jan ‘22 into 275-gallon tanks (>81% of all ADEPT HO tanks) that were…
We have been in this industry for over 30 years. In that time, we have worked with hundreds and hundreds of heating oil and propane dealers of all different sizes and shapes. Our clients have been multi-state public companies, they have been mid-size regional operators, they have been multi-generation local dealers, and they have been…
As our industry, and the world, ebbs further into the digital age, the distinction between decisions based on opinion and those based on fact, continues to blur as decisions are generally made in consideration of both. However, at Angus we believe there are compelling reasons to rely less on “opinion” (AKA: experience, gut feelings, understanding…
