Rocky Mountain Tracking

By Harriette Halepis

According to Business Daily Africa, Kenya, South Africa, is seeing a recent GPS tracking trend lately. More and more Kenyan business owners have begun to track trucks in order to increase productivity, and to find out where company money is going.

GPS trackers prove to be extremely useful all over the world – even as far as South Africa. Some Kenyan business owners also enjoy the fact that trucks can be placed inside of a virtual fence. This type of fencing knowing as “geo-fencing” helps to ensure that good are not hijacked and that truck drivers are not taking up company time with personal endeavours.

Since insuring certain truckloads of goods in Kenya can be risky, many companies are now demanding that trucks be tracked at all times. While this may not be good news for drivers, it’s certainly allowed Kenyan companies to keep tabs on their goods around the clock.

While the recent GPS tracking boom has a lot of Kenyan businesspeople talking, this trend is bound to pick up in other countries as well. Certain countries are considered “high-risk” within the trucking world, and many truckloads passing through these countries cannot be insured.

It’s safe to assume that those high-risk countries may become a thing of the past as GPS trackers become more and more popular worldwide. Gone are the days when truckloads of goods disappear into thin air. Now, technology has found a way to make truckloads of goods safe – no matter where in the world they may be located.

By Greg Bartlett

Three Hundred sixty pounds of marijuana was discovered by the police department in Massachusetts with the help of a GPS tracking system. The local law enforcement had been following a drug ring in this particular area and was anxious to catch those who were involved. After obtaining a search warrant they searched the building where they thought the drugs were hidden. They found the crate and discovered the contents. However, instead of immediately seizing the drugs, they placed a GPS tracking system in the crate of marijuana.

The waiting game didn’t take long. Soon, the real time GPS tracking system that they had planted was showing that the drugs were being moved. Police returned to the building and started following the man who was driving away with the crate of drugs.

The local police followed the man for 24 miles as the crate of drugs was moved from Framingham, MA to Norwood, MA. The drugs were finally unloaded at a warehouse. The police found three men who were loading the smaller boxes of drugs that had been inside the crate into a van.

Although the men fled the scene, they were later arrested. Now the three men involved are facing long prison sentences.
This is just one example of how law enforcement officers can use a GPS tracking system to catch criminals. This technology allowed them to easily catch the people involved in the drug deal. Because the police used a GPS tracking system, they did not have to post police officers to monitor the drugs, which endangers the police officers as well as risks tipping off the criminals.

Another way that police officers have used these tracking systems is to monitor the vehicles of suspects. This allows them to take note of any suspicious activity on the part of the suspect, helps them keep track of the suspect’s location at all times in case they decide to make an arrest, and could help them catch the suspect committing another crime.