LiveViewGPS is excited to announce the integration of SpeedGauge into our GPS fleet tracking system. This integration enables LiveViewGPS customers to monitor the speed of their commercial fleet drivers in order to evaluate drivers, monitor fuel consumption, reduce insurance rates, lower accident risks, and identify risky behavior among drivers.

Speeding and Fuel Consumption Statistics

Speeding costs companies in more ways than you may realize. From traffic tickets to higher maintenance and crash related expenses, speeding drivers present major liability and cost issues for the businesses they represent. Looking at the facts in black and white says it all.

Speeding Statistics

• Excessive speed accounted for 31 percent of all fatal crashes in the U.S. in 2009, with a total of 10,591 deaths, according to a 2009 National Highways Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report.
• Speed-related crashes have an economic toll of approximately $40.4 billion every year per this 2008 NHTSA report.
• The National Safety Council reports that speed was a factor in 27 percent of all fatal crashes in construction and maintenance zones during 2005.
•  Every minute saved by speeding in the U.S. costs over $76,000, reports Caddell Nelson & Reibach.

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Drug theft goes awry after a GPS device tracks down stolen Adderall medications.

In Scranton, PA, a drug thief attempted to steal the prescription medication Adderall from a local CVS pharmacy located on Moosic Street, but GPS tracking technology helped put a stop to it.

Adderall, which is usually prescribed to individuals with attention deficit disorder, is becoming an illegal drug of choice for kids, teens, and adults looking for a boost in energy and focus.

About Adderall

Adderall is a drug typically prescribed to children and adults that have attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) or similar disorders that cause behavioral disturbances.

Unfortunately, it is also popular among high school and college students because the drug helps these individuals focus, concentrate better, and reduce other side effects of ADHD. As an amphetamine, Adderall causes a number of side effects that make non-ADHD people acquire them illegally. This includes being more alert, high energy, invigoration and peaking studying or sports performance. Read the rest of this entry »

Realtor gets smart with GPS tracking and finds surprising evidence of theft of his missing “Home for Sale” signs.

For one realtor in Brighton, CO, advanced technology has helped him determine exactly why his signs were disappearing. Greg Portlock, a local real estate agent in the Brighton area, began putting out his realtor signs every Friday and leaving them in the South 50^th and Bridge area throughout the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, Portlock would return to these homes and pick up his signs. Except every time he attempted to retrieve them, they would be missing.

By this point, Portlock honestly had no idea what was happening to his signs and why they were disappearing. It was obvious someone was taking them down, but he hadn’t the slightest idea who would want his RE/MAX signs. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver Aquarium releases seals being tracked with GPS after rehabilitating them.

Five adorable seal pups that had been rehabilitating at the Vancouver Aquarium were finally released. But they weren’t released alone; each one of them has a GPS tracking transmitter on the top of their head to be able to track and monitor their movement after being released in an effort to see how well rehabilitated seals fare after being released.

The seals have been cared for at the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre located at the Vancouver Aquarium. Here, the seals were each equipped with a GPS tracking device that was placed on top of their head in an effort to monitor their activity while in the water.

When being released, the seals were taken from the rescue centre to Porteau Cove in Howe Sound. Each one was safely transported in a dog kennel and released on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, which is north of Vancouver. There were seven seals in total: two of which did not have GPS transmitters, but were also rehabilitated at the aquarium.

Once the kennels were removed from the transporting vehicle and opened, the seals peeked their heads out to get a grasp of their surroundings, before bouncing out and onto the beach. It took them a few minutes on the beach before they finally braved the water. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon reveals their secretive testing of GPS-equipped delivery drones.

Home delivery may be changing in the near future, as the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has admitted to their Prime Air project. While there have been some suspicions regarding this project, nobody knew for sure what it was about until Bezos opened up to 60 Minutes about the research.

Bezoz announced that Amazon has been using delivery drones to test possible package delivery going directly to customer’s doors in a very short period of time. GPS tracking has been helping them in the testing stages of the project.

The testing stage has been going on for quite some time in a development lab in Seattle, Washington, where Amazon’s corporate headquarters are located. Though the project is still about five years from being approved. If they are approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), customers could have their packages delivered by these drones in an hour or less. Read the rest of this entry »