This past Monday marked the start of the deer rifle hunting season in many parts of the country. In the state of Pennsylvania alone, nearly 750,000 hunters were estimated to trek the wilderness in search of game. Unfortunately, with so many hunters facing the elements, injuries – and worse — can occur, which leads us to a story of an injured elk hunter in Montana being rescued after the remarkable technology of GPS tracking.

John Chepulis is an elk hunter in Montana who knows his way around the Northwoods. However, the woods are vast and make it easy for a hunter to get lost if something were to happen. Unfortunately, this became a reality for Chepulis. But Chepulis was lucky because his wife urged him to bring along a  GPS personal tracking device which proved useful when he became injured after getting bucked off his horse in the wilderness. Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to the advanced technology of GPS tracking and its ingenious developer, a new wind-powered ball can safely detonate landmines and track their location with a GPS tracking chip.

About Landmines

As explosive devices and used by a variety of military services, land mines exist under the ground. They are meant to detonate, or explode, from pressure of someone walking or driving over the land mines.

Landmines are placed in inexplicable places according to the desired targets. They can now be considered anti-vehicle weapons or anti-personnel weapons. They are also used to deny access to public utilities, roads, waterways, and farmlands. Read the rest of this entry »

EMS (Emergency Medical Services) vehicles have an important job to do. They are literal lifelines to the cities in which they operate. EMS personnel understand, all too well, that in emergency situations, seconds can be the literal difference between life and death. Fast access to trained medical care is often critical not only to save lives, but also to maintain a certain quality of life for those who do survive.

That’s why it’s so important to use every available tool at your disposal in order to manage your vehicles as efficiently as possible in order to save more lives.

These are just a few of the reasons why it’s vital to invest in GPS fleet tracking equipment to help you manage your EMS vehicles to be even more effective tools for saving lives. Read the rest of this entry »

A New Zealand city employee recently lost his job after a GPS tracking device reported a mismatch between the hours worked and the hours he reported.

Robert Stuart, an employee of a New Zealand-based street cleaning company, was found falsifying information on his daily time sheets. The discrepancy was originally proven by a GPS tracking device installed on his truck, but manager Mike O’Donnell had his suspicions early on.

O’Donnell claimed he would attempt to get a hold of Stuart toward the end of the work day, but Stuart was typically unavailable. According to the GPS tracking data, Stuart was taking long lunches and leaving work early, which explained why he was always hard to find. Not only was Stuart leaving work early, but he was also claiming 10-hour working days from 6:00am to 5:00pm — which granted him overtime pay. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone operating a fleet of vehicles — whether its cars, vans, buses, or trucks — needs to be making use of GPS fleet tracking tools. These tools are not simply handy to have when you need to change routes on the fly. They can be instrumental tools for your entire business. Whether you’re in the office or on the road, the right GPS tools and features can also help you track productivity and improve safety standards for your drivers.

Here are just a few of the ways you can use GPS tracking features for fleet management to save your company money. Read the rest of this entry »