Mobile Phone Based GPS Tracking

Paul S

Paul S

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Hey Everyone wanted to get your thoughts on Mobile Phone GPS Tracking

Would you pay $10-15 Dollars per month if all you had to do was to get your driver to download an application on his/hers Ios or Android device and from that your would be able to see their location on your web browser.

you would have the ability to send them messages, get traffic alerts based on google traffic and send them route directions.

no devices to install just the mobile phone they already have.

let me know some of your thoughts.
 
We have been using a system like this for a few years now. Works well, biggest hurdle is getting all your drivers on board with the program.
 
We use MacroPoint. At its best it's great and at its worst it sucks, and most of the time its somewhere in the middle. Its biggest problem is that it always loses its place when crossing the border and it usually loses its place when it hits a weak cell area, and it won't pick itself back up again.
Going to install an offering from Trackem out of Brantford, Ontario and see how it works. It's cell based, but not reliant on a drivers cell phone.
 
Yes, we use it on both sides of the border.

E-Log? Hopefully it never comes to that...

Our drivers currently use paper logs and we import them into log-auditing software.
 
Don't ignore elog it is coming and you can be ahead of the curve or behind it.
 
I am going with Peoplenet. Seems to have everything we want in both a tracking system and e-log solution. It's stand alone, although the fact that it is vertically integrated with our back office is icing on the cake. Added bonuses for us are in-cab imaging, fuel tax, navigation, and driver training-on-the-go just to name a few. I have my first unit ordered and it's probably about 6 weeks out yet.
www.peoplenetonline.com
 
E-Logs are the future!
About this cell tracking thing; it's only good for carriers tracking their own trucks.
Sometimes we have customers ask us to force the carriers to use it, then it gets a tad intrusive, so we just turn down those loads.
If we can't build trust and work together, forget about it.
 
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Yes that's what I said, but that gets to be a little bit too much for us.
If we can't trust the people we do business with then why are we handing them merchandise worth thousands of dollars to go on our highways...
Plus it's very hard to tell a client you can get all your carriers to agree to use the system.
The sell point towards us isn't that big a deal, it's then going and convincing others to use it too!

I didn't mean only truckers can use it, I meant that it seems very hard for us non asset guys to implement across the board with every carrier we deal with.
 
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