GPS fleet tracking has a lot more than you may realize to offer your refrigerated truck fleet. In fact, you may be surprised by how well GPS fleet tracking tools can help you accomplish your goals. Because today’s fleet tracking tools are so highly customizable, you can adjust them to meet needs specific to refrigerated trucks as well as the standard tasks GPS fleet tracking is known to aid with.

Here are just a few things GPS fleet tracking can do for your refrigerated truck fleet:

Optimize Routes for Greater Fuel Efficiency

When you use GPS fleet tracking to help you plan more efficient routes, you can save a great deal of money in fuel, that is certainly true. You might also discover, though, that you’ve saved a great deal of money by keeping your drivers on route, on task, and by reducing the time they spend on the road each day. This means more money in your pockets because more jobs get done in fewer hours each day!

Address Potential Problems before they Become Disasters

Set up alerts to notify you when certain conditions occur, such as power disconnections, temperatures falling above or below specified ranges, route deviations, and unscheduled stops along the way. This will alert you to potential problems so you can monitor the situation more closely to determine if it might be beneficial to seek assistance or even switch trucks to maintain the proper temperature or insure timely delivery of goods. You are aware of any situations that occurred throughout the delivery process for your records as well as for your customers.

Works for Large and Small Fleets

The true beauty, though, of using GPS fleet tracking for your refrigerated truck fleet is that it is completely scalable – making it work with small and large fleets alike to help you keep your cool no matter what’s going on in the world outside your refrigerated vehicles.

Quality control is always important. Properly used, GPS fleet tracking can help you ensure your customers and compliance officials that you have gone the extra mile to guarantee that your shipments are delivered in the right time and at the right temperature each and every time. Now is the perfect time to put this critical technology to work for your refrigerated truck fleet.

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In Thousand Oaks, California, researchers recently discovered a rare case of a Santa Monica Mountains cougar that successfully crossed U.S. Highway 101. The animal then moved into a quieter range.

The subadult male big cat, named P-55, managed to cross the highway early on July 30. It traveled along the Conjeo Grade 72 Kilometers west of downtown L.A. The animal also crossed State Routes 23 and 118 where it successfully got to the Santa Susana Mountains.

The event is only the fourth ever known crossing of the 101 in the last 15 years. Researchers have been studying the Santa Monica Mountains big cats throughout that time. The population suffers from various threats to their wellbeing. These include a lack of genetic diversity and inbreeding due to the fact that the mountain range is closed off by the Pacific Ocean and L.A. and its western suburbs.

Male mountain lions need vast expanses of individual territory. The area frequented by the animals in question poses a hindrance to dispersal due to the 101 that has three or more lanes facing in each direction. There’s also the fragmented wilds of the mountain range to take into consideration.

The roads in the area are life-threatening to lions. To date, there have been 17 documented road kills since 2002. Wildlife ecologist at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreational Area Seth Riley explained that GPS trackers have observed a pattern of lions coming up to the edge of a freeway and then turning around.

Male lions tend to leave their mothers at around 1.5 years of age. They then go on to find their own territories. Males can live in a territory with many females, however, when males encroach on each other’s territories, there can often be battles to the death. According to information from the park service, studies have shown that Santa Monica mountain lions rarely survive beyond the age of two.

Researchers put a GPS tracking collar on P-55 to track his movements. He was also caught on video in the backyard of a home in Newbury Park the weekend he made his crossing.

Experts are debating whether building a bridge to enable wildlife to safely cross the 101 could help save more of these majestic animals from death.

Readers can review the tagged puma profiles on the National Park Service website, read about the study, and see the mountain lions tracking.

Chances are good that you’ve heard the many potential benefits GPS fleet tracking has to offer your organization. There are plenty of ecstatic users of this technology out there extolling its virtues near and far on the World Wide Web and beyond.

You’ve heard about how it can improve record keeping, cut fuel costs, keep drivers in check, and even reduce labor all while helping you keep your customers happier. What you likely haven’t heard much about is how GPS fleet tracking actually works to help your fleet accomplish all these things.

GPS Fleet Tracking 101

GPS stands for Global Positioning System. It involves a network of 27 global positioning satellites that are continuously orbiting the earth in very precise patterns so that each of the six orbital planes is always covered by four active satellites (three are orbiting as backup satellites).

These satellites work in concert to determine the location, direction, and speed vehicles are traveling through a mathematical process called trilateration. It uses the GPS receiver in your fleet vehicles to help configure more efficient or faster routes, to determine approximate travel time, record data related to the trip, and to estimate fuel consumption based on things like speed, terrain, idling, etc.

Types of GPS Tracking

The long story is that GPS fleet tracking involves complex mathematical calculations. There are essentially three different types of GPS tracking available:

1. Data Loggers
2. Data Pushers
3. Data Pullers

Data loggers work by logging the position of objects at regular intervals. This information is stored in a flash-based memory system that must be retrieved via USB connection.

Data pushers are the most useful for fleet tracking purposes. These GPS receivers send data from the device to a central location allowing you to locate vehicles or goods instantly and remotely.

Data pullers are not as common for the sake of fleet tracking, but can be useful for tracking cargo and other items that may have been misappropriated from your fleet vehicles. These systems remain on at all times, but it is up to you to pull data from the receiver when it is needed.

Using GPS tracking for your fleet of vehicles has many impressive and profitable benefits to offer. Knowing how you plan to use your GPS fleet tracking capabilities (loss prevention, tracking, navigation, identification, accountability, record keeping, etc.), will help you determine the best kind of GPS tracking system for your busy fleet.

Call us today here at LiveViewGPS to learn more about the GPS fleet tracking solutions we offer and the benefits they provide. 1-888-544-0494