Document shredding companies provide an important service to businesses of all shapes and sizes. GPS fleet tracking systems offer many benefits to document shredding companies. These are just a few reasons your document shredding business might want to consider bringing GPS tracking into the fold.

Document Security

Because of federal privacy laws, the security involved in document shredding is more important for some businesses, than others. Savvy shredding services, though, can offer the same security to all document shredding customers thanks to the advanced technology used by modern GPS fleet tracking systems.

More specifically to the ability to use RFID tracking to follow the progress of specific document loads and confirm that they never deviated from their anticipated paths. This is especially important for businesses that handle legal, financial, and medical documentation.

From pharmacies that handle prescriptions for medication and insurance documentation to hospitals that generate copious amounts of medical data to serve their communities. You can offer the ability for them to track their documents through RRID transmissions to ensure that security. Read the rest of this entry »

A study which looked at Australian fur seals located in the Bass Strait and their feeding behavior found that things like pipelines, shipwrecks, and cables benefited these animals in their underwater world.

What researchers found was that these types of structures were actually acting as artificial reefs and attracted fish and various other marine life. Because of this, hungry fur seals get their fair share of a variety of squid, bony fish, and octopus.

The study’s underwater ‘seal-cam’ footage and GPS tracking data revealed that the Kanowna Island colony animals which were off Wilsons Promontory favored certain foraging routes.

Deakin University’s John Arnould stated, “In one case we looked at the GPS track and it was a straight line, which made us think that the seal might be following fishing vessel”.

The researchers, on closer inspection, realized there were other things at play; the foraging path of the animals mirrored a pipeline and other animals were doing the exact same thing.

The Bass Strait’s underwater infrastructure includes communications cables, the Basslink high-voltage power pipeline and numerous wells and shipwrecks. Read the rest of this entry »

Just because the temperature is rising, that doesn’t mean the amount spent on fuel has to increase as well. Driver habits directly affect the fuel economy of their vehicle.

There are many ways drivers can increase fleet fuel economy during the hottest months of the year. We have 14 of the hottest tips for fleet managers for increasing fuel economy:

Before turning on the air conditioning, roll the windows down for a few minutes. Doing so will decrease the amount of work the air conditioner has to do by removing some of the hot air from the vehicle.

Keep air conditioner off and the windows down at low speeds. Reduced fuel economy is most often the result of overuse of air conditioning.

Opt for rolling the windows up and turning your air conditioning on on the highway. Having the windows down at high speeds can actually decrease fuel economy due to wind resistance.

Obey the speed limit. According to fueleconomy.com, for every 5 mph over 50 mph, you pay an additional $.19 a gallon. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are like the rest of people and are tired of waiting and wondering when your pizza will arrive, then this will be good news for you. Domino’s Pizza says that soon you will be able to track your pizza from the time it’s pulled out of the oven to when it’s delivered right to your doorstep.

Using their tablets and smartphones, customers will be able to track the precise location of the delivery car while on route to your home thanks to a GPS tracker. Inspired by ride-sharing app through Uber Technologies Inc., a company which has rights to Australia’s Domino’s Pizza Enterprises will be testing the GPS program.

Customers will be able to track their pizza delivery in real time through a map shown by the GPS driver tracker. It is thought that this program will cause hungry consumers to be more patient since they will be aware of how much longer it will be to get their pizza. Chief Executive Don Meij states during an interview that it’s a dark spot when it comes to the delivery business.  Now, however, it will be completely transparent and disclosed. Read the rest of this entry »

For a PhD study being conducted by student Natalie Wildermann of James Cook University, twenty-five baby flatback turtles will be sent on a journey on to the Whitsundays; five of them having a particular job to do. This study is designed to document the young turtles travel habits.

These turtles were gathered up in Mackay from four different nests when they first hatched about several months ago.

In order to determine which five turtles were the strongest and largest, Ms. Wildermann and her team were observing the animals closely. A small GPS tracker (solar powered) will be attached on each shell of the selected five.

This GPS tracker does not affect the swimming abilities of the turtles and is less than 10 percent of their weight. A special glue attaches them to the shells and is designed to fall off in around two to three months after research data is gathered. It’s not damaging to the turtle’s shells either. Read the rest of this entry »