We’re in the height of the busy, summer travel season. With that, comes luggage theft, which is a big problem for travelers around the world today. Taking steps, like the ones mentioned below, to prevent luggage theft can save you time, money, and aggravation while traveling.

Keep Your Bags Close

It’s hard to always have a hand and eye on your bags during long layovers and in the event of lengthy delays. If you must rest your eyes or keep them hawkishly on your children instead, protect your bags in one of the following ways:

• Loop the handle around your foot.
• Use the luggage as a pillow.
• Consider using it as a foot rest.
• Attach it to your arm, neck, shoulder, etc. via the strap.

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Fans of the Tour de France can now follow the race on the Internet and television for the first time in its history. They will have the ability to track the 198 competitors’ performance in real-time by using GPS tracking sensor data that is fed to a website from sensors that are fitted underneath the saddles of the competitors.

Data like the speed of the rider, their precise position on the road, and their proximity among other competitors are conveyed through this GPS tracker.

This type of intimate data is normally preserved for the teams who gain private access to it as well as private biological data like power output and heart-rate that wouldn’t be part of the feed.

According to Jeremy Ord, Dimensio Data’s Executive Chairman, the technology will enable fans of the cyclers to follow the race in various ways that they have not been able to before.

Understanding what was occurring behind the scenes of line TV coverage was difficult, until now. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »