More and more businesses are adopting GPS fleet tracking technology to save money and improve the overall customer experience. When it comes to mobile dog grooming businesses there are a few other benefits GPS fleet tracking provides that are well worth mentioning.

Verify Stops

It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while stops get missed on hectic days. It can be the result of a Golden Retriever gone wild, a Chihuahua on a rampage, the hounds of, ahem, Hades have been loosed in the grooming truck, or something as crazy as a turned around driver that sets the wheels of chaos in motion.

Without GPS fleet tracking, little Frodo the basset hound can get skipped in a long line of grooming appointments for the day. With GPS fleet tracking, though, even if one truck runs behind, there’s generally someone nearby that can either pick up the slack or reschedule the poor pooch before his owners know he’s been missed.

The other benefit GPS tracking provides when it comes to verifying stops is that it can back your groomers up that they did in fact stop as claim and spend an appropriate amount of time to account for the grooming services they provide at a given location. This provides an adequate indication of services when false claims are made against your drivers. Read the rest of this entry »

The ocean is not being contaminated these days with just oil. Recently, an 11.5 ton net was found in the Pacific Ocean close to Hawaii and dragged out.  This proves the continuing ‘War on Trash’ is even more important than what was thought previously.

The ‘monster net’ was originally found in 2013 in the depths of the Pacific Ocean and was thought of as a legend to the people who worked for the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National

Monument in Hawaii. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration or NOAA was the first to sight it on the edge of Hawaii’s Pearl and Hermes Atoll on a coral reef.

National Geographic reported that different sections of the net were caught on the ocean floor. A large tree twined in its mass.  Also, a sea turtle was injured and trapped in its folds. Read the rest of this entry »

People love praise, whether they want to admit it or not. Companies now are able to track a driver’s etiquette, thanks to GPS fleet tracking. The information they obtain can be used for offering the drivers positive recognition.

GPS fleet tracking devices are placed in each vehicle and alert managers of the behaviors of drivers, including braking, recorded speed, idling, and lane shifts. Dispatchers and managers can view a live map which shows the drivers in the fleets.

Introducing GPS Fleet Tracking to Employees

For most organizations, installing a fleet management system is a major change, and there will likely be concerns from your employees about its impact on their jobs. Drivers might be concerned about how their day-to-day work will be affected from this continual tracking of their driving performance.  They might also be concerned that a ‘Big Brother’ atmosphere will be created where managers will be able to invade their privacy and even micromanage their actions. Read the rest of this entry »

Usually it’s celebrities making headlines in Los Angeles. This time, it’s a mountain lion that is making news headlines in the Los Angeles area.

Biologists from the National Park Service located the mountain in the Verdugo Mountains, a small mountain chain just north of downtown Los Angeles, on May 7, after an amateur scientists was able to film him. He was given the identifying title P-41 and was fitted with a GPS tracking collar.

The National Park Service biologists hope that the collar will give them the pertinent information that they need in order to document how difficult it is for these animals to survive because of their close proximity to the major freeways that run through Montrose, La Crescenta, Burbank, Glendale and sections of Los Angeles.

P-41 is estimated to be an 8-year old adult male mountain lion who weighs 130 pounds.

According to Kate Kukendall of the National Park Service, after he was spotted, he was captured, blood and tissue samples were taken, he was fitted with a GPS tracking collar and released back into the wild. Read the rest of this entry »

As keyless start systems are becoming more common among newer cars, thieves are finding new ways to break in and steal these vehicles. In a recent article for The New York Times, Prius owner Nick Bilton detailed his search for the answer to how his car had been broken into three times over the course of one month. His experience was just one of many break-ins in his neighborhood.

While witnessing the last of these break ins, he noticed that the thief was using a small device to unlock his car with ease. After much investigation, he found research from one of the founders of 3db Technologies, Boris Danev. Danev explained that he believed the thieves may be using power amplifiers, which can be bought for as little as $17 online.

Keyless entry vehicles unlock by searching for a signal from the keys. Normally, keyless entry vehicles have to be within a few feet of their key before they will unlock. Power amplifiers, however, boost the strength of the signal that searches for the key. Because of this, they are able to use power amplifiers to break into cars as long as the key is relatively nearby. Read the rest of this entry »