Archive for GPS Tracking Benefits

Bear Tracking, GPS-Style

If a wild grizzly bear was headed toward your neighborhood, you’d probably want to know, or at least the local authorities certainly would. And in some parts of the U.S., this scenario is a reality. Once bears learn the joys of foraging for food in urban areas, they keep at it until they become used [...]

GPS as a Reputation Management Tool

It sounds like a bad dream, but it can and does happen. One of the trucks in your vehicle fleet goes missing during a route assignment or gets stolen off your lot. The next thing you know, it’s turned up again — this time on the TV news, at a crime scene. Someone has used [...]

Asset Trackers and Portable Devices for Pizza Delivery Vehicles

Nobody is less popular as a slow-moving delivery guy carrying a lukewarm pizza — except maybe the company that sent him on his route. If your pizza company’s customers aren’t as loyal as you’d like, your crew may have some erratic driving habits that need ironing out. GPS tracking can help with that — and [...]

A Pigeon’s Tracking System? It’s All in it’s Head

GPS Tracking System–Not just for the Birds Pigeons aren’t exactly known for their towering intellect, so how can they navigate from one remote point on the globe to another so surely? The military used homing pigeons to deliver vital messages during both World Wars — in fact, they were even the preferred mode of top-secret [...]

GPS Units Track Water Flow in California

Water, water every — where? That’s the question answered by a University of California, Berkeley research team. These researchers set out to gain a better understanding of how water flows through the Sacramento River on its way to the public water supply. After all, there’s nothing more critical to human survival than water, so knowing [...]

How GPS Tracking Can Lower Your Fuel Expenses

Here at Track What Matters we’ve heard many accounts from our customers of how our tracking technologies help them get better control over their routes (and their drivers), which boosts efficiency and saves money. But now that we’re looking at gas prices that routinely hover at levels we would never have imagined a few years [...]

GPS for the Landscaping and Lawn Care Industries

Every industry seems to come with its own special set of challenges, and that goes for the lawn and garden world as well. Landscapers and lawn maintenance companies are always running in high gear during the spring and summer months, with the more ambitious ones trimming and edging 20 or more properties each day. This [...]

When Hospitality Matters — Track What Matters!

Track What Matters helps Solve Customer Disputes In a previous post we mentioned AA Transportation in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The limo and bus company used Track what Matters’ report generating capability to defuse customer and employee disputes by ensuring that it had accurate data on record for each pickup and delivery.  AA Transportations’s use of our [...]