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Why Choose US as your GPS Fleet Tracking Provider?

By Nikol Hillman, on July 29th, 2010%

People have lots of choices out there for everything. Just look anywhere and you see someone trying to get you to choose their company for whatever it is they are selling. Smaller purchases for everyday items don’t require as much in depth research as larger purchases, but when you need to make those big purchases, . . . → Read More: Why Choose US as your GPS Fleet Tracking Provider?

Where are your trucks?

By Nikol Hillman, on July 22nd, 2010%

Over the July 4th Holiday, we decided to take a family vacation to North Carolina to visit some friends. On our drive up from Florida, I encountered many vehicle abuse situations where drivers were passing aggressively, speeding, harsh breaking, following to closely, texting or on the phone while driving, one guy was changing his clothes on . . . → Read More: Where are your trucks?

SafetyTrack® Misleads Consumers

By Eron Iler, on July 8th, 2010%

I know it is a competitive environment in this industry but the one thing all GPS providers need to do is keep their integrity in place. We recently found a competitor to be claiming or at least implying that they sold the fleet tracking system to the US Postal Service. This is clearly not true and . . . → Read More: SafetyTrack® Misleads Consumers

Is it wrong of me….?

By Eron Iler, on July 2nd, 2010%

The other day I was making a day trip to another city about 250 miles away in my personal vehicle. I was cruising about 78 mph (just slow enough not to get a ticket) when I was passed by a company car doing about 90+ mph. Being in the fleet tracking business I could not let . . . → Read More: Is it wrong of me….?

GPS Tracking & Dispatching

By Eron Iler, on June 17th, 2010%

GPS Tracking

A view of the vehicles current location &/or a review of historical driving and stop activity displayed in reports and maps.

Fleet Dispatching

The act of taking a new job or service call and disseminating the necessary information to a field service worker. This is generally done through a cell phone or mobile data terminal.

Many small to . . . → Read More: GPS Tracking & Dispatching

Live Vehicle Tracking is Not Perfect

By Eron Iler, on May 30th, 2010%

You need to be realistic when considering the performance of a live GPS tracking system. I’ve spoken to many customers and prospects that believe live tracking means you can see the device update every second, it is 100% accurate 100% of the time, power consumption is not an issue, websites never go down and the accuracy . . . → Read More: Live Vehicle Tracking is Not Perfect

Spring Cleaning With GPS Vehicle Tracking?

By Nikol Hillman, on May 5th, 2010%

Spring is in the air, finally; for most part of the country. The birds are chirping again, the grass is starting to grow, and people are getting out and enjoying the wonderful weather. If you own a company you know this all too well…time off requests come in by the handful, sick days suddenly get used . . . → Read More: Spring Cleaning With GPS Vehicle Tracking?

Comprehensive Safety Analysis – CSA 2010

By Eron Iler, on April 25th, 2010%

This is a freight train coming down the tracks with a major impact on trucking. If you have a trucking company and are not up to date on this, you could be out of business if and when it goes into effect. Click here to read all the details. This program appears to be providing a . . . → Read More: Comprehensive Safety Analysis – CSA 2010

GPS Tracking, Dispatching & Messaging with the Marcus System

By Eron Iler, on April 21st, 2010%

The concept of combining these things is attractive to many small business owners. The trio provides a quick and effective way to improve fleet operations. The days of simply tracking a truck is quickly dwindling as technologies merge to provide value added services and efficiencies. Lets do a quick overview of some of the benefits each component . . . → Read More: GPS Tracking, Dispatching & Messaging with the Marcus System

Fleet Vehicle Abuse – My favorite topic.

By Eron Iler, on March 31st, 2010%

Must be a company boating trip. ;0)

Vehicle abuse is an underlying reason for the deployment of GPS tracking. It’s the “big brother” component of vehicle tracking that some companies embrace and others deny. The reality of the technology is that it allows management to view all vehicle activity, good and bad. I’ve always said the . . . → Read More: Fleet Vehicle Abuse – My favorite topic.

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