Rocky Mountain Tracking

By Greg Bartlett

Working for a company that pays for your travel expenses sounds like a great benefit, especially with today’s much-fluctuating gas prices. However, it can be tempting to misuse this benefit and report more miles than were actually driven for work purposes. With current economic problems, companies are searching for ways that they can be more efficient. And the last thing that businesses need is to pay out more than they really owe their employees for traveling. Tracking mileage is one area that can easily go from over-estimated and difficult to simple and efficient with the help of today’s technology.

GPS tracking systems are not brand new technology, but it is becoming an increasingly beneficial thing for businesses as well as employees. By putting systems in business vehicles, it will be a cinch to track which miles are truly for work and which are for the quick run to the store. The knowledge that they have a GPS ‘keeping an eye on them’ will help employees keep work and leisure time separate. In fact, they won’t even have to worry about tracking their own mileage, because the system can do it for them.

GPS tracking systems work in the employee’s favor just as much as it would against them. Although they might not like the idea of a babysitter that makes sure they behave, when shown how a GPS system will work for them, employees will not resist having a system in business vehicles.

Businesses can and should encourage employees to put tracking systems in their own cars as well. Those who have to report work mileage on a personal car can be increasingly frustrated trying to keep business and personal mileage separated. It can be difficult to remember to track and log all of your business traveling time, but the GPS can do it for you! Employees will no longer have to remember all the errands that they ran each night after work that added significantly to the day’s mileage. Instead, they can view a list of their travels or they can look at each day’s mileage on a digital map.

So put away the notebook and pen and save yourself time and frustration by switching to a GPS vehicle tracking system that will take all the hassle of out reporting company miles and just leave you enjoying the benefit of being paid for company travel time.

By Greg Bartlett

Have you ever spent hours searching for something at work, like a missing master key? You ask everyone you work with if they know where it is, and each person tells you “So-and-so had it last.” Tracing back the long line of people who had previously used or borrowed equipment seems useless, takes hours, and it usually ends up being unprofitable. But what else can you do? People use things and fail to put them back. It’s just a fact of life. Right?

Not anymore. Using new technology, you can easily locate the object or whatever equipment your company seems always to be misplacing. If you attach a little GPS tracker to an object, you will never lose it again. Not only does this protect from things getting lost, but you can ensure that they will not be stolen. Even if someone were to run off with your property, you could pinpoint their exact location with the GPS tracker. Many GPS tracking devices are about the size of a business pager which would be a little difficult to attach to a key ring, but some devices, like the PT-200 are actually small enough to place on small objects. Or, a passive tracker, such as the Tracking Key, can be placed on an object to find out where it has been after the fact. The Tracking Key looks like a small computer thumb drive that runs on AA or AAA batteries.

Lost or stolen property can be devastating and it can halt production at a factory or cause a business to lose a major contract. Businesses cannot compromise their security like this. If the lost or stolen property is never found, it will cost the company hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

Attaching a GPS tracker to your property will save your company time and money. Countless hours are wasted when people search for things and sometimes they are never even found. Being able to instantly locate objects or equipment would allow companies to be more efficiently run and would give the owner peace of mind. A GPS tracker is the simple solution that will keep your property and your business secure.

By Greg Bartlett

When kids are young, parents set boundaries for how far away they can venture from home. When they are very young, the boundary may be the neighbor’s driveway. As they get older and hopefully more responsible, the boundaries can be extended. When they get their driver’s license what can a parent do about keeping the teenage driver within their boundaries?

Giving a teenage an operator permit and access to an automobile provides them a measure of independence that they have never had before. Prior to access to a vehicle, the teenager was predominately under the watchful eye of the parent. With the parent stated boundaries can be transgressed with near impunity. The only way a parent can be sure that the boundaries are not exceeded is through a vehicle tracking system.

GPS tracking systems can be very elaborate. There are tracking systems that can be preset for a mileage radius from the home. If that radius is exceeded, the parent is provided with several options.

The first option is simply that an alarm is provided by the vehicle tracking system to the parents computer, land line or cell phone. This alerts the parent that the vehicle has exceeded the pre determined limit. What the parent does with this warning is up to the parent. Through the vehicle tracking system, the parent can watch where the vehicle goes, where it stops and how long it is stopped. This can later be discussed with the teenage driver letting them know that their restricted area for driving has been exceeded.

The parent can make a more radical and often dramatic response. Many tracking systems can be wired into the ignition of the vehicle and the vehicle can be immobilized through the use of the vehicle tracking system. Should the restricted limit be exceeded, when the vehicle comes to a stop, it can be remotely immobilized. Imagine the teenage driver returning to their car and not being able to start the vehicle. They know that they are beyond the limits but now must contact the parent and ask that they come and get them.

A vehicle tracking system can also provide data as to the speed that the vehicle is being driven. While most teenagers think that they can drive as well as Jimmy Johnson, all parents know that they cannot. Knowing how fast the car has been driven and on what roads provides the parent the opportunity to provide further driving instructions for the teenager.

A vehicle tracking system installed in a teenager’s car provides the parent the assurance that agreed upon limits are not being exceeded and that the vehicle is being operated in a safe manner. Without a vehicle tracking system in the teenager’s car, the parent will have no idea of those parameters and be at the mercy of the teenage driver.