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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In an effort to create a safer work environment for truck drivers and safer roads for everyone, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration established the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) rule, which requires that all trucks who are currently using paper logs or logging software transition to ELDs by December 18, 2017.

Those who are using Automatic On-Board Recording Devices to log the time drivers spend on the roads have until December 16, 2019 to comply with the ELD rule requiring them to install and use the appropriate devices by the deadlines states.

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The Villages has undergone a number of golf cart thefts recently leaving Villagers trying to figure out how they can keep their valuable possessions safe. Advantage Golf Cars offer the following tips:

Secure Your Garage

You can protect your golf cart and keep it from being stolen by parking it in your garage or another secure building. While you can’t thwart all thieves from getting to it, especially when you’re not home, parking your golf cart in your locked garage is always a good idea and decreases your risk of having it stolen.

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The year 2016 is closed and businesses of all shapes and sizes are looking to 2017 for areas where changes and improvements can be made. These are five small ways you can improve your business for big results in 2017 – courtesy of GPS fleet tracking technology.

1) Allows you to Monitor Driver Behavior More Closely

Drivers are a reflection on your company and bad driver behaviors put your reputation, your drivers, your vehicles, and the cargo they are carrying at risk. It wasn’t that long ago that your best opportunity to find out if your drivers were behaving irresponsibly behind the wheel was to leave it up to citizens to call 1-800 numbers to report bad driving or the number of traffic tickets coming in.

GPS tracking allows you to not only monitor driver behavior, but also to set up alerts to notify you when drivers are speeding, swerving, and displaying otherwise aggressive driving actions. You can also print out reports and use these reports as the basis for reprimands and promotions according to how drivers behave behind the wheel.

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Reindeer are almost synonymous with Christmas in some circles. Children around the world look on these beautiful creatures with wonder – knowing that one night a year, these animals deliver joy and magic to children everywhere. What you may not know, though, is that reindeer populations are in decline leading the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) to list reindeer as a vulnerable species.

Part of the reindeer population decline is the result of nature. In fact, nearly 10 percent of the declining population of reindeer each year can be blamed on becoming victims of accident or prey to a variety of creatures, including bears, wolves, lynxes, and wolverines. Herders in Finland’s Arctic Lapland region are turning to technology to present practical solutions to help protect their reindeer herds. Read the rest of this entry »