Fleet GPS Tracking - What It Can Do For Your Business

Are you a freight broker? If you are, it is your job and your responsibly to ensure that your client?s goods are transported from one location to the next, safely. When it comes to running a freight broker business, like all other businesses, you are taking a gamble on the truck drivers or transporters that you hire. That is why you may want to think about protecting yourself, your business, and, in some cases, your truck drivers or transporters. You can do this with fleet GPS tracking.

Fleet GPS tracking involves putting a small device into each of your trucks. Of course, this will require the cooperation of any truck drivers, especially if they own their own trucks, but, in most cases, you will find that most are more than happy to do so. As previously stated above, fleet GPS tracking can also help the truck drivers or transporters that you employ. One of the reasons for that is because you know where they are at all times.

Fleet GPS tracking is made possible thanks to the Global Positioning System. This system is what makes it possible to track anything with a GPS tracking system, including a fleet of your trucks. When it comes to safety, a fleet GPS tracking system can not only help your business, but your truck drivers or transporters as well. For instance, should one of your drivers veer off the road unseen, you could be able to tell exactly where they are and when the vehicle?s last movements were. This would not only allow you to recover your client?s merchandise quicker, but it would also allow you to seek help for one of your drivers if they were injured.

As a freight broker, you likely already know that many transportation vehicles are the targets of theft. Many times, the merchandise being transported from one location to another is valuable and that is what tends to make it a prime target for thieves. The thing with these types of thefts is that they often take the whole vehicle, like in a hijacking, and then unload the merchandise elsewhere. If this were to ever happen to you and one of your trucks, fleet GPS tracking would enable to you to not only know where your truck has been, but where it is at the current time. Fleet GPS tracking could assist authorities with recovering the property you, your company, and your driver was transporting.

As you can see, fleet GPS tracking can actually play an important part in your business. Although you may never need to use fleet GPS tracking, why take the chance of not having it. With the ability to help your truck drivers in the event of an emergency and the ability to track thieves, fleet GPS tracking equipment and software is more than worth the already affordable costs.

Quentin Chamberlain is a writer for RM Tracking . com where you can find accurate information about Fleet GPS Tracking and other related information.

Vehicle Security and Tracking

It?s ten o?clock; do you know where your children are?and how fast they?re traveling? Since its inception, the driver?s license has been a rite of passage from the teenage into the adult years and has always struck terror in the hearts of parents. There is a way to help parent through these times. Seems impossible? Imagine if you had the ability to instantly know the location of your car and child and how fast she traveled to get where she was going.

This is exactly what a GPS tracking system will do for you and your peace of mind. Technology that was developed for the United States Military is now available for families; offering a comfort and tranquility uncommon in parents of teenage drivers. The system follows vehicle movement ? anywhere in North America, at any time ? and generates an online location report of the vehicle?s last known position, including the street address if available. The printable report includes the amount of time the vehicle was at a location, the speeds en route and the direction in which the vehicle was traveling.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute, ?Teen drivers have the highest crash risk of any age group. Per mile traveled, they have the highest involvement rates in all types of crashes, from those involving only property damage to those that are fatal.? Many of these crashes result from inexperienced drivers operating vehicles under dangerously excessive speeds. With statistics like these parents owe it to themselves to know how fast their children are driving, especially if high rates of speed are often the reason for serious accidents. With a tracking unit installed, it doesn?t just give parents crucial information; it puts parents in the car with their child -- at all times. The next time 16 year old Johnny considers testing the maximum speed of the family mini van, he may think twice and decide he?s not ready to pay the consequences once he pulls into the driveway for the night. It would be nice if we as parents could always be with our children when they are driving.

Careless driving is only one of the aspects that cause parents undue distress. The other is not knowing where our children are once they have left our house. Safety Track takes this wondering out of your day and night. At any time, parents can log on to a secure website and access a detailed map showing exactly where their car is located, providing their child has not left the North American continent. Try visualizing the feeling you will experience when you can see for yourself, from the comfort of your home computer, that Susie is at the high school basketball game and not out at the local fraternity party. Not only that, but you will be informed of the time she left the game as well.

Jeff Stoker, Safety Track, http://www.safetytrack.net

Vehicle Safety - Following Simple Vehicle Safety Tips Can Reduce Auto Accidents and Injuries

Child Car Seat Safety:

We know you love your children, but so many people do not follow these simple car seat safety principles. By following these easy steps you can ensure your child is completely safe in your car. Just to get one thing straight, there is no one best child car safety seat. The best car safety seat is determined by various factors that you as the parent need to take into consideration. The seat needs to fit your child’s height and weight, as well as be able to fit properly in your car.

Another common misconception is price. More expensive, does not always mean better quality or the seat is better safety wise.

The first step of proper car seat safety is of course determined by the age of your child. Any child that is under the age of twelve should be kept in the back seat of a vehicle. This is especially true if your car has passenger side air bags.

Infants should be in a rear facing car seat until they are at least one year old and twenty pounds. After they are twenty pounds they can be placed in a front facing car safety seat until they are around forty pounds or they have reached the maximum height recommended for the specific car safety seat in question.

Once a child reaches forty pounds, they should be placed on a belt positioning booster seat. The vehicle’s normal seat belt should not be used until they are around eighty pounds or 4ft 9 inches tall.

As always read your car’s owners manual as well and any manuals with the car safety seat.

Additional Car Safety Tips:

Most accidents that occur over a parent/child incident occur when a parent is trying to turn around and discipline their child. Think about it, you are taking you eyes as well as you mind off of the primary task at hand (driving) and exclusively focusing on your child who should be, and usually is behind you in the back seat of the vehicle.

To prevent this the best thing to do if you must discipline your child is to find a place to pull over and do so then, when you are not moving.

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The Clever Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport, Vehicle is Here

Well there is a new prototype car with three wheels, which is poised to take the European market by storm. And it is very clever indeed. In fact so is its name The CLEVER, which stands for; Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport. This vehicle is only 3 feet wide and it is a cross between a motorcycle and a car with two wheels in the back and one in the front.

The clever car can run and 60 mph and with its reduced width it is much easier to find parking spot say it’s designers. On the Clever Car website it shows that this car is a collaboration between many partners and those partners include: “the Technische Universitaet Berlin in Berlin, the Institut Francais Du Petrole in Vernaison near Lyon, and the Institut Fuer Verkehrswesen – Universitaet Fuer Bodenkultur, in Vienna.”

The vehicles body is made out of aluminum frame and plastic body and the rider’s carriage tilts when you turn a corner. The sensors in the car tell the vehicle how lifted tilts based on the speed and the sharpness of the turn. Everyone assured the score will be a hit in England and in all of Europe and it runs on compressed natural gas and puts out a third of the amount of pollution and the most efficient family type cars in Europe. And best of all it gets over 108 mpg. Hello you say? Yes and the big question is when can we get them here in the United States? Consider this in 2006

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