Road repair and maintenance fleets have big roles to play in keeping roads safe for neighborhoods, municipalities, communities, and states.

Whether you are repairing potholes after a long, harsh winter or conducting road surface treatments, repairing cracks in roads, or maintaining the nations highways and byways; GPS tracking can help you repair and maintain roads more efficiently and cost effectively.

These are just a few benefits GPS tracking has to offer your road repair organization.

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Did you know the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act passed in December provides for immediate full expensing of capital investments for the next five years? This special “bonus depreciation” applies to LiveViewGPS trailer telematics products, which typically qualify as short-lived capital investments.

Below is an overview of this key business tax provision in the new law that will impact capital investment:

Corporate Tax Rate: Reduces corporate (C Corp) tax rate from 35 percent down to 21 percent starting in 2018.  The significant reduction in corporate taxes will free up cash to enable companies to make investments in capital improvements

Capital Investment: Allows  immediate, full expensing of short-lived capital investments, such as machinery and equipment (now new or used) for five years through December 31, 2022, then phases out the provision by 20 percent annually over the next five years. This is generally referred to as “bonus depreciation,” which is available for new and used equipment under the new laws.  In prior years, “bonus depreciation” applied only to new equipment and was for 50% of the amount purchased.

LiveViewGPS products typically qualify as short-lived capital investments, so our customers will be able to take full advantage of the new tax laws. Companies should confer with their tax advisors to determine the benefits of accelerating planned capital expenditures in 2018.

Fourteen-year-old Trevyan Rowe’s bus driver dropped him off in front of the school just like every other morning. Sadly, Rowe suffers from autism, and this day was not like every other. His normal routine, which is very important to maintain for those high on the autism scale, was disrupted when he misplaced his phone. In confusion, Rowe simply walked away from his school building. Sadly, Rowe is not the first autistic child to simply wander off from safety and become lost.

This terrifying situation is a legitimate fear for millions of Americans whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer’s, autism, dementia or other mental conditions. The Journal of Pediatrics published one important study that revealed around one in three children with autism will wander off and become temporarily lost.

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Mulch supplies and wholesale manufacturers of mulch can benefit greatly from the use of a GPS tracking system for their fleets. The benefits go far beyond simple savings on fuel by planning more efficient routes for deliveries, though that is certainly an impressive benefit. But when it comes to building and boosting your building, it’s hard to deny the usefulness of the following benefits for your business that involves supplying and delivering a variety of soil products to your customers.

Track Mulch Products and Deliveries

Tracking the products being delivered to retail organizations and commercial landscaping companies not only helps you keep tabs of where your supplies are going, but it also instrumental for helping you organize and manage your billing.  In fact, some GPS tracking systems can handle the billing for you. All you have to do is enter the information into your system when planning your routes, and the billing process can be automated from there.

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Traveling at speeds around five miles per hour over the posted limit is an often accepted and unspoken rule of drivers, but this habitual speeding may be costing society much more than we realized.

The National Transportation Safety Board released a study in July of last year highlighting the fact that speeding is one of the most common factors in car crashes across the nation. The group utilized a number of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze how prevalent speeding is and how dangerous speeding is statistically.

The extensive study sourced data from speeding-related crash data, surveys and interviews with safety stakeholders from various law enforcement agencies, research institutions, equipment vendors and automobile manufacturers.

The study concluded that speeding increases both the likelihood of being involved in a motor vehicle accident and the severity of injuries sustained in a crash. It identified an astonishing 113,000 deaths were caused by speeding between 2005 and 2014. This shocking number is comparable to the number of individuals who lost their lives in alcohol-related collisions.

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