With the recent passing of Valentine’s Day, many couples celebrated their love all over the world. However, they might have been up to something a little more malevolent this past holiday. MS News Now out of Mississippi is bringing the story of…how some buy flowers while others buy GPS tracking devices on Valentine’s Day.

Many people were anxious to find out if their other half was being faithful. This past Valentine’s Day, some found out! In order to seize the chance to catch their loved one in the act, some chose to purchase teddy bears for their other half on Valentine’s Day, only they were equipped with hidden security cameras.

You would wonder who would even try to be unfaithful on a romantic day like this.

Each Valentine’s Day, the sale of candy, flowers, and jewelry rise, but the sales of tracking devices also rise, according to insiders in the industry.

In fact, the owner of one particular online spy shop claims his sales increase up to 40 percent before every Valentine’s Day as suspicion rises between spouses. The owner who operates his business reveals that it’s not his job to actually catch the suspected cheaters, but rather only to provide and sell the gadgets. Read the rest of this entry »

GPS tracking technology has a lot to offer many different types of business. Refrigerator repair companies, in particular, stand to benefit from GPS tracking in a wide variety of ways. These are a few of the highlights you may want to consider while exploring the potential benefits GPS tracking has to offer your refrigerator repair business.

Improves Response Times

When someone’s fridge is on the fritz, the last thing they want is a long wait while wondering if they’re going to lose all the food the refrigerator is holding. Those can be long and agonizing hours – especially for people who really don’t have the money it would take to refill their fridge or even part of it. Getting there fast allows you to save the day and become their biggest hero for a day. GPS fleet tracking quickly identifies the nearest truck, pinpoints the fastest route to get there, and then directs the drivers around potential traffic snarls along the way to avoid unnecessary delays.

Simplifies the Dispatch Process

Dispatchers are amazing people who sometimes accomplish the impossible. GPS fleet tracking helps take some of the burden off the men and women who provide dispatch services by doing the heavy lifting of identifying the right driver and fastest route in a matter of seconds. This helps dispatchers move on from one crisis to the next much faster and still provides accurate directions for drivers to follow. Read the rest of this entry »

Less than 100 years ago, there was no such thing as GPS tracking on snow plows and it could be days before the snow plows made it to your streets. These days, this is no longer the case. Now, it only takes a few clicks of your mouse to see if the state roads have been plowed yet. And more and more municipalities and counties are employing GPS tracking for their snow plowing and the benefits it provides.

For instance, earlier this winter, weather forecasters anticipated that around 16 inches of snow was going to fall on Madison County. The predictions of when the snow storm would begin and what the accumulation would be varied, however, prior to the storm, the three local governments of the county spent a full day preparing for it. Snow plows were lined up in their garage filled with fuel and salt ready to tackle the roads. Next to the garage off Madison Ave was a shed filled with loads of salt for refilling the trucks.

Residents were finally able to track their county roads and see when they were going to be plowed or if they have already been thanks to an Internet connection and GPS tracking. Read the rest of this entry »

The “How’s my Driving?” bumper sticker has been relied upon for years to help keep drivers operating on the straight and narrow for fears of reports made against them. The bumper sticker allows drivers to weigh in on how your trucks are performing and helps to identify problem drivers who are repeat offenders on the roadway. Did you know that GPS fleet tracking can do all that, without bumper stickers and phone calls, and more?

The Underlying Inadequacy of Bumper Stickers

There are two major problems related to relying on bumper stickers. The first problem is that it generally takes something dangerous and terrifying to get people to actually make the call. For most people who would make accurate and honest reports, the general tendency is to mind their own business and stay out of things.

This means that it’s not simply reckless driving that gets reported, but outright dangerous driving. This means your drivers may be tarnishing the company image through aggressive driving methods and you are none the wiser.

The second problem is that the people who are willing to make the phone calls aren’t always the upstanding citizens you’d like them to be. Bored teenagers with unlimited mobile minutes are all too happy to make false reports and complaints and your drivers are unable to defend themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Lima, Peru residents are urged to follow the proper guidelines when they dispose of their waste since now they will have vultures on their trail.

These vultures are equipped with GoPro cameras and GPS tracking devices, which will help environment officials close in on the culprits of illegal waste dumping neighboring the Peruvian capital.

The scavenging birds were thought to be the perfect bird for this type of task since there was little to no preparation needed to get them over to the waste deposits since their natural instinct for searching for food is to seek out organic matter.

According to officials, the city has a waste problem and each year up to two million tons of waste is accumulated in the Peruvian capital. That is a great deal of trash and it draws vultures in like flies.

Waste is not only being dumped in landfills. It is reported that some residents are making a lot of illegal dumps each year (around 20 percent of the tons of waste are illegal). Read the rest of this entry »