Medical linen services provide important roles in the local healthcare community. Not only do you professionally clean the linens from various community hospitals, dental offices, medical clinics, and massage therapy businesses, you also make sure they are gathered and promptly returned so that these businesses have the clean supplies they need to operate at their maximum efficiencies.

Oftentimes, there isn’t a lot of room or time for error. GPS fleet tracking for medical linen services helps to ensure you’re operating at maximum efficiency, too.

Below are just a few ways GPS fleet tracking can help your medical linens services business operate more efficiently.

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On November 19, 2019, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released a yearly report (Hot Wheels) that identified the United State’s 10 most stolen vehicles. This report showed data about vehicle theft that police sent to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) which outlined the vehicle model, make and model year reported stolen the most in 2018.

The top three vehicles of this list reported stolen were the:

• Honda Civic — 5,290 stolen
• Honda Accord — 5,029 stolen
• Full-Size Ford Pickup — 3,173 stolen

Along with this report, the NICB released data showing on 11 holidays in particular in 2018, 22,879 stolen vehicles were reported.

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When it comes to teens driving, they have a dangerous track record. One of the biggest reasons for this is because of technology. In fact, of all drivers involved in fatal accidents, teens make up 7%, but 13% are distracted with technology like using a cell phone at the time. Below you’ll learn about some car safety technologies available to help keep your teen driver safer.

1. Stability Control

Stability control features such as Electronic Stability Control are very important for teen drivers since this feature ensures stability when your teen is driving on slippery and curvy roads. This feature has been shown to reduce the risk of single accident fatality. It became mandatory in 2012, therefore all new vehicles will come with it. But, you’ll need to find out if it comes with any older used cars you’re thinking about purchasing.

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GPS pioneer, James Spilker, Jr., died at the age of 86. An adjunct professor of astronautics and aeronautics, he was a primary figure who developed the technology Global Positioning System (GPS). He was also a generous philanthropist.

During his long career, Spilker made many advances in technology, but what he might be best known for is his 1970s development of the GPS coarse/acquisition (CA) signals. Today, it’s the gateway for around four billion GPS users. And, the development of his “delay-lock loop” process in the early 1960s, became important to GPS accuracy.

After the launch of GPS, it assisted the U.S. military in improving its navigation and after that, contributed immensely to mobile mapping applications. Today, almost 50 years later, the GPS signals designed and proposed by Jim in the 1970s continue to be used in everything from banking to GPS tracking devices for parolees, Alzheimer’s patients and more to monitoring glaciers and tectonic plates. Read the rest of this entry »

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released it’s yearly report on November 19, 2019 on the 10 most stolen vehicles in the U.S.

The Honda Civic was the car most stolen in 2018 with over 38,000 stolen cars in 2017. The 1997 Honda Accord was the second most stolen car and coming in third place was the 2006 Ford pickup truck.

The report shows the 10 most stolen vehicles nationwide for 2018 were:

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