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One Tennessee school system used funds provided by a federal grant to install GPS tracking systems on a large percentage of its school buses. An official estimated that between one half to three quarts of the buses used by the school system now have GPS tracking devices that work in conjunction with video surveillance cameras.

No matter what kind of fleet of vehicles you have—be it school buses, trucks or limousines, you can use GPS tracking to keep track of your vehicles and know who is where at what time. Being able to manage your fleet with GPS tracking means you will have an accurate record of the driving activity for each vehicle that your employees drive.

You can reduce operating costs because you will be able to monitor driving habits that such as excessive speeding that waste money. Your vehicles will also be subject to less wear and tear when you help your drivers get a  handle on wasteful driving habits.

Officials in Tennessee said that they wanted to do all that they possibly could to keep students safe. And in this day and age you may be thinking that this means keeping them safe on the roads and safe from adult predators…well, it appears that school officials installed the cameras and GPS devices to also keep students safe…from each other.

Sadly, it seems that some of the students are a danger to themselves. It is not clear whether students are fighting with each other or somehow distracting the bus driver, but it is evident that something had to be done. After a number of incidents involving disruptions on school buses, school officials knew they had to do more to keep the peace. They also needed to be able to have more evidence of what may have happened when and where, so they turned to GPS tracking technology.

One article about this new development in the Tennessee school system noted that the GPS tracking systems were not installed to after a number of children were left on the bus by mistake or dropped at the wrong stop.

However, as a parent there are things you can do before this becomes a problem. You can get a personal tracking device to keep up with your child’s whereabouts. Then you will not have to rely on the school system to do this. We would certainly hope that you could trust bus aides and bus drivers to get your child to the correct bus stop, but just in case, a personal GPS tracking device an provide an extra layer of assurance.