If you own or manage a medical transport carrier services fleet, you have a lot of responsibility resting on your shoulders every time your drivers get behind the wheel. Whether you’re transplanting organs, blood, plasma, medical records, medical specimens, medications, x-rays, MRIs, CT scans or more, it is critical that your drivers arrive at the right destination at the right time. GPS fleet tracking can help you make sure these critical deliveries happen in a timely manner and more.

Ensure Timely Deliveries

Medical courier services often deal in life and death. The timely arrival of organs, medications, blood, plasma, and even medical records can mean the difference in saving or losing a life. GPS tracking services update maps frequently to ensure that you have access to the latest routes, detours, and closings so you can make the deliveries as quickly as possible – even helping to monitor traffic delays and navigate around them to keep the deliveries on time and on target.

Ensures Correct Deliveries

Accuracy is also critical when dealing with medical information, data, specimens, and more. Making the mistake of delivering the wrong package to the wrong location can cost precious time and result in multiple negative outcomes. GPS encoding on the packages being delivered ensures that the correct package is delivered on time every time.

Allow Receiving Facilities to Track Packages in Transit

Because many medical courier packages involve time critical deliveries, the receiving facility and team can track the deliveries in real time allowing them to have the medical team on hand to and ready to go the moment the package arrives to perform the transfusion, transplant, surgery, or treatment. In an industry where seconds can save lives, this feature alone is worth its weight in gold.

Verifies Chain of Custody

GPS tracking also allows for the tracking of the chain of custody of certain documents, medical records, organs, and biohazardous materials. The ability to track the chain of custody throughout the process offers legal protection and insures that avoidable mistakes aren’t made.

Helps to Improve Safety of Assets

Medical courier services often carry precious cargo – often cargo that has been paid for with a heavy price (in the event of organ donations) and lovingly offered freely to others in need. Keeping those assets safe is a priority. This means driving patterns and behavior behind the wheel of drivers needs to be monitored for safety. GPS tracking allows you to do that by printing out accurate records after each delivery, but also allows you to set up alerts notifying you when drivers are deviating from routes, swerving, speeding, hard braking, and engaging in other risky behaviors.

GPS fleet tracking may not be the first thought medical courier and transport services fleet managers consider for improving their businesses, but it can be an important one to carefully evaluate.

If you own or manage a  medical courier and transport services fleet, contact us at LiveViewGPS to learn how GPS fleet tracking can help your business.

Whether you call it a utility task vehicle or a utility terrain vehicle, your UTV is an investment in your business or your entertainment.  While UTVs are different than many ATVs, they have the same versatility that make ATVs such a great investment, plus a few extras, like steering wheels, pedals for braking and acceleration and safety features like seatbelts and rollover protection in many varieties. Many also offer side by seating for passengers in front and in the back.

The utility task vehicle is literally transforming the way people view their ATVs. Some of the newer models are built for performance and used in racing. The fact that more people can ride in one UTV makes it a great family recreational and utility vehicle. UTVs can be sheer recreational vehicles, but they are also incredibly useful on farms and golf courses as well as by hunters. These valuable vehicles also make attractive targets for thieves.

Protecting Your UTV from Theft

Prevention is always the best cure when it comes to UTV theft. Unfortunately, you cannot watch over and protect your UTV from theft 24/7. There are some things you can do that will make it a less attractive target when not in use, however, like locking it up inside a garage or utility building, storing it on gated property with limited access, and chaining your UTV to a tree or camper when you are away from home. Just make sure you use a high-quality chain and run it through the frame rather than through a tire. One tire, can be easily removed – defeating the purpose.

Using GPS Tracking for Your UTV

If your UTV is stolen, GPS tracking can help you quickly locate your UTV increasing the odds of recovery exponentially. Not only can you set GPS tracking to locate your utility task vehicle once you recognize the theft, but you can also create alerts to notify you whenever your UTV leaves a specific geographic range. This allows you to identify the theft quickly so you can alert the authorities promptly.

One other consideration for GPS tracking with UTVs is that you can track your travel route and share them with friends and family. Perhaps you’re planning to meet up along the way and make camp. It’s a great way to do just that. You can even share your UTV adventures with those left behind.

GPS tracking is about more than about helping to conserve fuel. The above are just a few small ways you can enhance your UTV experience with GPS tracking.

Do you own an UTV? If so, have you considered getting a GPS tracking device for your UTV? Call us here at LiveView GPS at 1-888-544-0494 to learn more.

One of the fastest, nimblest and largest raptors found in North America, the Golden Eagle is breathtaking to see in action. With its golden feathers crowning its head and neck and the sheer power in its talons and beak, the creature is one that has captured the imagination of many.

A team of researchers from West Virginia University and the U.S. Forest Service recently set a human trap in order to fit a GPS tracker transmitter to an eagle north of Rome. It’s hoped that this will enable the team to learn more about the birds.

This GPS tracking experiment shows a real step forward in terms of tracking golden eagles. Previously to this, a roadkill deer would be placed on a ridge next to a trail cam and images of the majestic creatures would be caught as they swooped down to eat. The fourth year of this current study, and the third one at this one specific site north of Rome, this is the first time the study has gone beyond capturing images.

The team began taking bait to the site in December 2016. Soon, they realized that their camera was recording one specific eagle on a daily basis, sometimes as many as two or three times per day. To ascertain whether the visitor was definitely one specific eagle or several eagles, the team employed facial recognition technology. This supported their theory that there was only one bird visiting the site.

The eagle was then caught, weighed and was fitted with the transmitter without delay. Weighing in at ten pounds, the raptor is the only bird that has been spotted at the site this year. Whereas last year, according to the team, there were at least two eagles, perhaps more.

One of the major aims of the study is to determine the migratory habits of the eagle. All going according to plan, the transmitter will track the movements of the bird and send back data to the research team for as many as three years. So long as the creature remains within range, the data is transmitted.

In the event of the bird flying out of range, the GPS tracking device stores the data, downloading it as soon as the eagle is back in range.