Yesterday, one of our customers who transports very sensitive materials (we cannot share the name due to privacy concerns), called when one of their trailers appeared to be in the wrong place.  At their request, we validated the GPS tracking data they were seeing on
Google Maps in our tracking system and in our GPS tracking [...]

According to a recent article, GPS tracking ranks as the second highest grosser of all iTunes apps.
What this translates to, in general terms for the general population, is that we as a society are rapidly embracing “location aware” applications and GPS tracking devices.
We want to know where we are physically located and increasingly we are [...]

These headlines are becoming common place.  Their projections are scary if you believe their skyrocketing figures like 170% over the next 10 years according to one such article in Transport Topics.   One thing is for sure.  Fuel prices are not likely to trend down over the next few years.   Fuel efficiency is top of mind [...]

Federal safety standards for Chassis to go into effect June 30th.
This recent development in safety standards has accelerated a shift in ownership and management of chassis’s in the inter-modal industry.   Shipping companies are moving to their core competencies in these tough economic times and that means they are no longer going to be providing chassis’s [...]

According to a recent Transport Topics article there are 850,000 chassis’s used on US roads today.   Most of those chassis historically have been owned and managed by the international and domestic shipping lines.  Due to recent changes in the regulation of safety standards for chassis’s there is a trend for the ownership and management of [...]

Wednesday morning, we received a call from a customer who has been with us for a couple of years.  They have GPS tracking on a single vehicle and they hadn’t been spending much time tracking.  But, they kept their account open and it paid off big.
At approximately 7:00 a.m. eastern time, they discovered their van [...]

A politician from Oregon would like to put GPS tracking on your vehicle.  This isn’t just tracking your fleet.  This is tracking your personal vehicle for tax purposes!  I have always been in favor of the private owner of a vehicle, trailer, container, or piece of equipment being able to track their assets, but the [...]

It is said that a bad economy leads to increased thefts.  Apparently that is true.  In the last month, we have seen more attempted thefts committed against our customers than I can ever remember.  Our fleet owners have reported thefts of vehicles, containers, trailers, and equipment at what is an alarming rate.
Fortunately, almost every stolen [...]

At Track What Matters, many of our customers have told us of thefts they have personally experienced. The Wall Street Journal is seeing it too. Statistics prove that freight movers need to be prepared against thieves.

We have a solution for this.
You can get tracking for your trailers for just a few dollars [...]

At Track What Matters, we get to work with some great customers.  Some of these are in the business of leasing and selling trailers.  While speaking with one of our customers this week, I learned that he has a number of used trailers for sale at great prices.
So, if you are in need of a [...]