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Employee Location Tracking
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:30 pm
I own a service business and we have 5 vehicles on the road at any given time. We are trying to find an inexpensive tracking system. We thought about google plus location sharing, but that does not allow you to see much detail...Any ideas? Could be an app locally installed on a phone.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:32 pm to dallaslsufan
Micro-manage much? Trust your employees or hire new ones.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:33 pm to dallaslsufan
AT&T has something
LINK
There are also tons of apps you can use. I use an app called Pruvan that allows my workers to sign in at a job and even transmit photos to me in real time from the jobs. We take a lot of photos anyway to turn into banks for payment and Pruvan speeds up the process instead of waiting on them to Dropbox me the photos.
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There are also tons of apps you can use. I use an app called Pruvan that allows my workers to sign in at a job and even transmit photos to me in real time from the jobs. We take a lot of photos anyway to turn into banks for payment and Pruvan speeds up the process instead of waiting on them to Dropbox me the photos.
This post was edited on 4/8/15 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:34 pm to crossfire
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Micro-manage much? Trust your employees or hire new ones.
I'm not in anywhere even remotely close to OP's line of work, but if his business is delivering product and someone where to ask him "hey, where is the driver?" it seems like "um, I don't actually know" wouldnt' reflect very well on him.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:35 pm to dallaslsufan
Actsoft Comet Tracker. 21 bucks.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:35 pm to dallaslsufan
Check out Uplink part # U-TRAQAUTO
this unit just plugs in the OBD port they also have a Pro model that hardwires.
this unit just plugs in the OBD port they also have a Pro model that hardwires.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:36 pm to crossfire
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Micro-manage much? Trust your employees or hire new ones.
you sound like a delivery driver that likes to frick off instead of doing your job
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:37 pm to dallaslsufan
Verizon network fleet. We use it for our IFTA mileage tracking and few other features. The speeding feature was a waste of time because their GPS was so outdated it wasn't worth the hassle.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:39 pm to dallaslsufan
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dallaslsufan
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I own a service business and we have 5 vehicles on the road at any given time. We are trying to find an inexpensive tracking system. We thought about google plus location sharing, but that does not allow you to see much detail...Any ideas? Could be an app locally installed on a phone.
Sounds like you have an idea on how to implement something, but my question is: Have you hashed the policy out yet?
Have you talked to your employees (I'm guessing so). But do you have the new policy in place and ready? What I mean by this is, do you have a policy that governs the use of company vehicles? Do you have a progressive, escalating discipline policy for your office in terms of your employee manual or code of conduct? How will your new policy fold into that?
IE-Have you spelled out, "You can only use the truck for business purposes. Here are examples of biz purposes. Here are examples of what is not a biz purpose."
From there, have you spelled out, "If you violate the policy, here's how you will be punished based on the policy."
From there, have you spelled out, "We will monitor employee adherence to this policy by [using an app/smartphones/etc]?"
If you haven't, you need to. If this is making you think you need to take a look at your employee handbook or policy manual, it won't take long and you'll save yourself some money from Unemployment claims and UI Taxes if you do.
Just my $0.02...
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:46 pm to crossfire
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crossfire
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Micro-manage much? Trust your employees or hire new ones.
You ever had ANY employees work in the field away from direct supervision? Weak post brah.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 2:50 pm to crossfire
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Micro-manage much? Trust your employees or hire new ones.
You must not run a fleet of service trucks driven by guys who more than likely don't have a high school education. Taking the long way home and stopping at McDonalds for a half an hour for breakfast are the norm.
Plus it help when Jane Doe calls in claiming something fell off the truck and hit her car, and when you ask her where it happens, you can prove she's full of shite as you weren't anywhere near there. Happens all the time.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 3:22 pm to GFunk
Ever had an employee quit while he had a company vehicle?
My dads company did, 3 weeks later they found it somewhere in bumfrick MS.
My dads company did, 3 weeks later they found it somewhere in bumfrick MS.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 3:27 pm to crossfire
Employee thinking vs. Owner thinking
They each cause all sorts of things.
They each cause all sorts of things.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 4:04 pm to dallaslsufan
You can put GPS trackers in the vehicles and monitor on computer. Notifies you when speed is excessive also. Not sure how expensive.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 4:06 pm to dallaslsufan
This should be illegal.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 4:15 pm to Grassy1
You're wrong, I work for a company that has over 2000 company vehicles with no monitoring. I just think there are better ways, set clear rules and give your employees trust (Our workforce is highly educated, trustworthy and passed strict background and personality tests)
Technology can be useful but not always necessary....guess it depends on your line of work.
Technology can be useful but not always necessary....guess it depends on your line of work.
This post was edited on 4/8/15 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 4/8/15 at 4:16 pm to TheBoo
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You can put GPS trackers in the vehicles and monitor on computer. Notifies you when speed is excessive also. Not sure how expensive.
$ 99.00 one time fee + $23.00 per month per vehicle
Monitors and logs location history & speeding.
Actually helped out a few times with customers disagreement concerning hours on a job site.
Posted on 4/8/15 at 4:19 pm to rehtaeh
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This should be illegal.
A company tracking its own assets should be illegal?
Posted on 4/8/15 at 4:54 pm to dallaslsufan
Cartasite is great solution for this but is expensive I think. Definitely put a vehicle policy in place before rolling this out if you haven't already. Also lol at the people in this thread complaining
This post was edited on 4/8/15 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 4/8/15 at 5:42 pm to dallaslsufan
Look up geotab. It uses Sprint.
Edit: spelling
Edit: spelling
This post was edited on 4/8/15 at 5:43 pm
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