BLITZBLANK swapped its expensive fixed-install fleet trackers for ToolSense OBD trackers and now saves roughly 1,000 euros per month, while running its vehicles and machines on a single platform.
BLITZBLANK is a classic Austrian building-cleaning company approaching its 90th anniversary. The interviewee leads innovation and digitalisation at the firm and has worked with ToolSense for almost four years, starting with machine management and growing into a fleet of roughly 100 vehicles.
The starting point
The partnership began with machine management: larger cleaning machines were fitted with a ToolSense module so the team could see whether a machine was running, how long it ran, and whether it had broken down. As that worked, the relationship grew, and attention turned to the fleet.
For a cleaning business, vehicle tracking is essential. Object leaders are on the road all day, routes need optimising, and winter-service runs have to be proven to the customer. The previous fixed-install tracker cost roughly €2,000–2,500 per month depending on fleet size, and every vehicle change meant install and removal costs.
Why ToolSense
Through the existing ToolSense partnership, BLITZBLANK found a better option: a tracker that plugs into the car's OBD diagnostic port. It can be swapped between vehicles in seconds, delivers the same data quality, and costs less. Just as important, the fleet data lives in the same machine-management system as everything else.
We saved about 1,000 euros a month by moving to the OBD tracker, and now the fleet runs in the same system as all our machines.
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Operational impact
The biggest gain is geofencing. For green-space and winter-service contracts, BLITZBLANK can show exactly when a vehicle, and therefore the operator, was at a given site. Route data also supports the company's sustainability goal: spotting where a driver could save 20 km a day by optimising a route cuts fuel and energy use. Lost or misplaced vehicles are easier to locate too.
A nice side effect: BLITZBLANK now tags machines with IoT trackers or Bluetooth tags, and the GPS tracker in a vehicle detects when a tagged machine is loaded in. That gives near-automatic asset management, and has already brought several vacuum cleaners back.
What's next
The current priority is a fully electronic logbook. BLITZBLANK still works semi-electronically and wants continuous documentation of mileage and trips that can be transmitted to the tax authority, an increasingly important requirement for proving private-use taxation.
