Customer Success Stories: Colonna's Shipyard

Colonna’s Shipyard, a full-service ship repair facility in the Port of Norfolk VA, uses getRightThere’s GPS technologies to maintain their entire fleet’s maintenance schedule and reduce liability through vehicle and driver monitoring and reporting.

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Background

Founded in 1875, Colonna’s Shipyard is the oldest family owned, full service private shipyard in the United States. The company's reputation is built on a long tradition of quality workmanship, on time deliveries, cost-effectiveness and solid business management. Colonna's dry docks over 225 vessels a year on average and is one of the leading propulsion conversion yards on the East Coast.

The Challenge

How does Colonna’s Shipyard streamline and maintain a vehicle maintenance schedule and reduce the company’s liability for their fleet of over thirty vehicles and drivers?

Colonna’s service department had a daunting task of scheduling and performing maintenance on their entire fleet without jeopardizing customer appointments, and interrupting the daily routine of drivers.

Tracking drivers and vehicles has always been a challenge, even for Colonna’s Shipyard. They needed a solution to gain control over maintenance schedules and improve operating costs across the entire fleet. Eliminating unwanted driver behavior such as speeding, excessive idling and ensuring employees are on the job site when they should be were also priorities.

 

The Solution

An Easy-to-Use GPS Fleet Management System from getRightThere.

 

getRightThere analyzed the specific needs of Colonna’s Shipyard and presented a solution to effectively address their specific needs. getRightThere trained Colonna’s on the system and Colonna’s in-house service department easily installed the hardware on every vehicle in the fleet.

 

“The system was so easy to learn, we immediately saw the impact on our business,” shared Don Thomas, Service Manager at Colonna’s Shipyard. “Our maintenance schedule is completely automated and the system simply reminds me of what routine service each vehicle needs when. Additionally, the getRightThere system identified some unwanted driver behavior immediately. We were able to resolve this quickly, thus reducing our company’s liability.”

 

Colonna’s Shipyard is reducing their long-term operating costs by streamlining a full maintenance schedule for their fleet. getRightThere has helped Colonna’s Shipyard reduce liability by eliminating unwanted driver behavior, and monitor fuel consumption to ultimately lower daily operating costs. Don says it best, “It just works.”

The Results

• Streamlined vehicle maintenance schedules
• Decreased liability
• Decreased fuel consumption
• Improved Customer Satisfaction
• Historical data and documentation on the entire fleet and drivers
• Eliminated unwanted driver behavior