Whether you have a large fleet or only a few trucks working hard to build your business, telemetrics are important tools for helping your business grow and become more profitable. These are just a few of the impressive things good fleet telemetrics can mean for your business in the coming year – and many years to come.

Boosts Efficiency

The one thing that every business can stand is a little more efficiency. Fleet telemetrics gives you just that. From the paperwork and logging process for drivers and miles to invoicing, routing, scheduling maintenance, and billing customers, telemetrics and GPS fleet tracking plays a vital role in the efficiency of your entire organization. This in turn helps you improve customer relationships and profits for your business. Read the rest of this entry »

Although robotic vessels and underwater drones have helped scientists with exploring the ocean, whales have now been used for learning with the help of GPS trackers. Oregon State University has shown this with their new tracking system.

Thanks to their new Advanced Dive Behavior (ABU) tag, they are able to track whales and transmit data every second for up to seven weeks at a time.

The ABU tags can monitor how the whales move, how they dive or orient their body and even track water temperatures and light levels. Read the rest of this entry »

At a Portland Land Rover dealership located on Northeast Grand Avenue, crooks made off with a few luxury, brand new sport utility vehicles.

One of the Range Rovers that was stolen was found by employees by the end of the day. They said it was located a block away from the dealership, parked with a ticket on its windshield.

Earlier that morning, Portland police came to the Northeast Grand Avenue Land Rover Portland dealership because of the high-end heist.

Apparently, the burglars broke into the showroom and drove off with around 5 of the vehicles, according to employees.

No comment was made by Land Rover Portland. Each Range Rover was worth over $100,000 at their site, according to the dealership’s website. Read the rest of this entry »

When your customers have trouble with water in their basements they want help fast. Whether your business focuses on waterproofing basements before problems arise or you deal with homeowners trying to prevent future moisture problems in their basements, the odds are good that your customers all have one thing in common. They all want prompt service and attention from you and your drivers. This is where GPS fleet tracking can come in extremely useful.

Provide Drivers with Detailed Driving Instructions

This means the right basements are receiving your attention at all times. Communities are growing faster each year with new neighborhoods and addresses constantly cropping up. LiveView GPS tracking provides constant updates to the maps so you can drive with confidence that your drivers will reach their destinations on time thanks to outstanding navigation assistance by the GPS system. Read the rest of this entry »

In western Austria, a farmer with cows is swapping the standard cow bells for GPS tracking devices after receiving a complaint from irritated guests about the noise.

A cow bell is used to make it easier to locate animals, particularly cows, who wander off. Even though they have long been used on cows, cow bells are often used on many other types of animals. Cow bells are typically made from bronze, brass, iron, wood or copper and the collar that holds the bell is made with leather and wood fibers.

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