Hiring a new fleet driver can be risky. As an employer, you entrust the new driver with your company vehicle and assume he will maintain good driving habits and represent your company positively. As one FieldLogix customer recently found, not all new hires are worthy of that trust. Melanie White of AirEconomics described their situation […]
On June 15, the Uxbridge, MA, police received two calls regarding Patricia Malone, 46. The initial call was from her ex, reporting Malone violated a no-trespassing court-order, broke into and burglarizing his house. The second call was from officer Thomas B. Stockwell Jr., reporting Malone for erratic driving. She was driving on the golf course […]
Jay High School and Jones Middle School, both within the Northside Independent School District of San Antonio, Texas, are using students as real-life test subjects to test RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. More than 6,000 students are a part of this test. The schools claim that monitoring the students’ locations is both a safety and a […]
According to a U.S. Department of Transportation report, 20% of all car accidents are linked to drivers being distracted. Between mobile phones, eating, looking at maps, and the plethora of other on-the-road distractions, drivers’ attention has several demands. This type of behavior puts your driver at more than 23% risk of being involved in an […]
Motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of work-related deaths and account for 24 percent of all fatal occupational injuries. On-the-job crashes are costly to employers, incurring costs of more than $24,500 per property damage crash and $150,000 per injury crash. Sometimes, they are even more costly. The Ragsdale family knows this too well. […]
Are you losing money due to unauthorized personal use of your fleet vehicle? According to Automotive Fleet’s annual survey of personal use charges and policies, personal use of company-owned vehicles costs $116 per month. The survey reports “… when looking at charge ranges, most fleets (33 percent) charge between $100 and $149 per month for personal use of […]
The continued volatility of fuel prices impacts businesses, especially those with fleet vehicles. “According to PHH Arval, an increase of just one dollar, from $3.50 to $4.50, will increase the fuel expense of a fleet sedan by almost $550 per year. For light trucks, the increase is even tougher on a fleet budget — an […]
At approximately 1 AM on June 25, 2012, Corpus Christi, Texas, police received a call. Someone stole an iPhone. The theft occurred when the victim was unloading groceries from his Jeep Liberty. When he returned to his vehicle, he saw the perpetrator speeding off on the victim’s $1,200 mountain bike. The pursuit started. During the […]
Have you ever misplaced your cell phone? If so, you might have used a “find my phone” app(lication) designed to help users locate their lost smartphone via GPS tracking technology. According to Apple Consultant Jeremy Durrwachter, it’s a simple app. The app “stemmed from.. people losing their phones. . . .” Durrwachter said. Although, the […]
Military equipment that rely upon GPS navigation can be misled if enemies jam or spoof the GPS signal by blocking or sending erroneous signal data. BAE Systems has developed a new navigation system that can circumvent GPS tracking jammers or spoofers by scavenging electronic signals from the air to figure out locations. The new system […]
At approximately, 9: 15 AM on Saturday, July 14, 2012, the PNC Bank branch located at 77 S. Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, was robbed at gunpoint. Miguel A. Ramirez, 29 years old, is accused of being the robber. He allegedly told a teller to “Give me all your money.” When the teller placed just over […]
GPS technology has allowed prisons to reduce costs by releasing sex offenders back into the community, monitoring their whereabouts remotely. However, when a parolees subverts the technology, law enforcement has to rely on old fashioned police work to find them. The California State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) tracks more than 7,000 registered sex offenders. […]
As GPS tracking devices continue becoming smaller, they can be placed more discreetly on to just about anything, including an unsuspecting person’s vehicle. One Texas woman knows this too well. A few years ago, she noticed that her ex-boyfriend from California kept showing up where she was. It happened too frequently to be coincidental. The kicker was […]
Alan Watkins, 42, and associates pled guilty in court recently to numerous counts of conspiracy to handle stolen goods. The goods, in this case, consist of more than 300 luxury vehicles worth up to £3.5m (approximately USD $5.5m) to sell them in Cyprus. With him in court, appeared Lee Fullick, 51, who helped clone the […]
Today’s cars have numerous computerized components to warn us about low tire pressure, engine failure, or to help navigate through traffic congestion. Have you ever wondered from where the GPS tracking devices came? If so, ask General Motors. In 1966, General Motors developed a product called Driver Aid Information and Recruiting (DAIR) system. To test the […]
FieldLogix Celebrates 10 Years of Service SAN DIEGO – July 1, 2012 – FieldLogix celebrated its 10th year of being a Green GPS Tracking solution provider for small to mid-sized businesses throughout Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The solutions are designed to reduce fleet fuel consumption and improve productivity. To accomplish this, FieldLogix provides […]
As part of FieldLogix’ outreach program, the staff recently took a day off from its selling and servicing Green GPS Tracking Solutions and closed the office for a day to help Habitat for Humanity build four local houses. The team worked on properties in Imperial Beach, California. Without having much construction experience, our staff took direction […]
Florida Drivers May Soon Pay Mileage Taxes Based on GPS Tracking The State of Florida is considering a novel idea. Florida is considering using a GPS tracking device to track the miles driven by each vehicle. Currently, whenever one refuels at a gas station, a portion of the gas per gallon price is a tax […]
