GPS Trackers
GPS Trackers
Asset Theft Recovery: How GPS Trackers Help Businesses Locate Stolen Assets Asset theft can be a serious problem for businesses that depend on trailers, heavy equipment, machinery, containers and other valuable assets. When something goes missing, the financial impact can extend beyond the replacement cost to include operational delays, lost productivity and disrupted schedules. GPS…
Tracking Trailers That Rotate Between Trucks: Battery-Powered vs. Wired GPS Trackers When trailers are regularly moved between different trucks, tracking the tractor alone doesn’t provide a complete picture of your fleet. As soon as a driver drops a trailer at a customer location, distribution centre or storage yard, the truck moves on and the trailer…
Do Dash Cams Lower Fleet Insurance Premiums? What Canadian Fleets Should Know Dash cameras are increasingly being used by Canadian fleet operators to improve driver safety, document road incidents, and manage insurance risks. But can installing cameras actually lower commercial auto insurance premiums in Canada? The answer is more complicated than many vendors suggest. Some…
GPS Drift: Why Your Tracker Shows a Trip When the Car is Parked You check your fleet dashboard Monday morning and see it: a vehicle that sat in the yard all weekend logged three short trips, 400 metres in total, at 2:14 a.m. Nobody was driving it. Nobody was near it. So what happened? Almost…
Geotab OEM Integration for GM: Fleet Tracking Without the Hardware If your fleet runs on Chevrolet, GMC, Buick or Cadillac vehicles, there is a good chance the GPS tracking (telematics) hardware you need is already installed. It rides inside the vehicle’s factory OnStar module, and Geotab can now tap it directly. No plug-in devices, no…
Winter Fleet Prep in Canada: How GPS Tracking Keeps Your Vehicles Moving When It Gets Cold Canadian winters are hard on fleets. Temperatures drop well below -20°C in much of the country, snow and ice slow every route, and daylight hours shrink. Fuel costs climb, batteries fail without warning, and a single no-start in January…
How to Read a MyGeotab Exceptions Report If you manage a fleet, you don’t have time to review every trip your drivers take. That’s the idea behind “managing by exception”: you set the limits that matter, and the system flags only the moments a vehicle or driver goes past them. In MyGeotab, those flags live…
GO vs GO Anywhere: Which One Fits Your Fleet? Picture a typical fleet yard. Trucks and vans are lined up by the gate, but look a little further and you’ll spot trailers, containers, generators, roll-off bins and heavy equipment. They’re all part of your operation, and every one of them needs to be found, protected…
ELD Rules in Canada vs. the United States: What Cross-Border Fleets Need to Know If your trucks run between Canada and the United States, you already know that the border is more than a line on a map. It is also a line between two sets of electronic logging device (ELD) rules. They look alike…
Ford Harsh ABC Events: What Fleet Managers Should Know Fleet safety involves more than knowing where a vehicle is located. Understanding how vehicles are being operated can give fleet managers valuable insight into driving behaviour, help identify recurring patterns and support more effective driver coaching. Geotab has introduced an update that expands harsh driving event…