According to the recently released National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) 2013 Annual Holiday Vehicle Theft Report crime doesn’t take a break for the holidays. In fact, New Year’s Day represented the highest number of vehicle thefts for a holiday in 2013 with 2,184 thefts.

The thieves, it seems, weren’t scared straight for Halloween either. It was the second busiest day for thieves with a total of 1,998 thefts. Days at the beach apparently presented ample opportunities too since Memorial Day and Labor Day were also big holidays for car thefts in 2013, making them third and fourth, at 1,972 and 1,915, respectively, for total number of car thefts.

Independence Day, though, came in eighth among holidays however, with 1,750 thefts – just below Christmas Eve, which only had 1,774. Surprisingly enough, New Year’s Eve, Thanksgiving, and Christmas day rounded out the bottom of the list at ninth, tenth, and eleventh.

The one day of 2013 that had the highest overall thefts, was August 12 which experienced 2,316 thefts in one day. Christmas Day had the least. Read the rest of this entry »

As a fleet manager, you’re in charge of important business functions like managing your fleets, ensuring all daily office operations are running smoothly, and keeping your customers satisfied. Many fleet business owners swear by the use of GPS fleet tracking to improve business operations.

Below are 5 ways this type of tracking can help your business.

1. Reduce Fleet Maintenance Expenses

Being able to set up reminders for vehicle maintenance is one of the most powerful features of GPS tracking. Having the ability to keep up on vehicle maintenance is a great way to keep your drivers on the road and making your company money. Vehicle maintenance can often be put in the back of your mind with all the hustle of your other busy tasks and responsibilities. With GPS fleet tracking, you can actually set reminders for things like oil changes, tire rotations, brake pads, wiper blades and more so your company vehicles stay in good condition.

2. Eliminate Employee Moonlighting or Vehicle Misuse

Employee moonlighting is a real problem and the National Labor Bureau even says that almost six percent of workers are also engaged in other side jobs on company time. Your business can lose money because of this. With extra fuel costs and vehicle maintenance you are actually paying out money to have your workers work for someone else. GPS tracking can help to prevent income theft like this. You can set up geofence alerts that will tell you the precise location of your fleet vehicles at any time of day or night. Read the rest of this entry »

Every once in awhile you hear about something so wrong – that you get angry.  We are glad the person stealing this christmas tree was caught captured and is facing multiple charges, what he did was despicable.

Multiple vehicles have been stolen at local Mobile, Alabama gas stations in recent months. And we’re not talking about low numbers. The police department says that more than 800 vehicles were stolen just in 2015. Sadly, only 300 of those had been recovered.

In one incident recently, Rick Dillon had pulled into the parking lot of a Circle K at the corner of Knollwood and Grelot road. It was on a Thursday morning at approximately 10:30, says Dillon. He had left his keys in his vehicle and went inside the store. His car was gone when he came back out. Since then, he has received some great news.

They found his car in Harrison County, which is around an hour away in Mississippi, Dillon said. He adds, he received some bad news as well. His car had been wrecked both in the front and back.

Over the past few months, there have been several cars stolen from convenience stores, Mobile Police Department’s Officer Terence Perkins said. The issue is the owners left their cars running, he added. Read the rest of this entry »

Many of us know the disaster caused by earthquakes, hurricanes, and even droughts. However, a natural phenomenon that we might not realize could devastate our technology-driven society is space weather. When there are variations in the environment between the sun, Earth, and the whole solar system, this is referred to as space weather. To put it exactly, space weather describes the solar energetic particles, coronal mass ejections,and solar flares that could impact our orbiting planets, specifically Earth.

A huge solar storm strikes only around once every 500 years, however, it can leave devastating consequences. One particular devastation is that it could damage our worldwide power grids permanently. Solar flares can also mess up global positioning systems and their GPS tracking and GPS navigation applications by causing telecommunication and power outages and disrupting satellite transmissions. Read the rest of this entry »