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Police in Connecticut used GPA tracking to find two hikers who were lost in the woods this past weekend. The hikers has gone out to watch a mountain sunset and realized that they could not find their way back to their vehicle.

While you or family members are out and about enjoying the great outdoors this summer, you might want to think about using a personal GPS tracking device, just in case you get off track.

Unless you plan on leaving a trail of cookies or bread crumbs behind you (and we don’t advise this), you will want to take extra measures to ensure your safety. There is a lot of fun to be had hiking trails and climbing up mountains, but the fun stops when someone gets lost. The Connecticut hikers got lost on Sunday night and did not get back home until Monday morning.

GPS location and data retrieval is a high tech process, and although there are 100’s of units on the market, many are not very reliable. Rocky Mountain Tracking rejects 98.2% of tracking units we test because they don’t hold up to our punishing 15 point quality check.

Check out Rocky Mountain Tracking’s personal tracking products and see which one would be right for you. A GPS tracking system can allow you to make sure that you and your family members are safe whenever you venture out into nature. It can help you locate them if they get lost or in the case of an emergency. A GPS locator can give you an extra layer of protection and safety for you and for your loved ones.

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If you have been to the Rocky Mountain Tracking website then you’ve seen all of the great products they have there. You see that there are GPS tracking devices that suit different needs and come in several categories that fit several needs including devices to:

Manage Your Fleet
Recover Stolen Vehicles
Keep Tabs on Heavy Equipment
Track Teens
Protect Parents

Now that you’ve seen all that RMT has to offer, perhaps you’d like a comprehensive tool so you can make your decision. This is why RMT, the single source for all of your GPS tracking needs, has a page on its website that lets you compare GPS tracking devices. For those of us who are visual, this is especially helpful. Look at and compare the features, power source and service requirements for a range of GPS tracking devices. When you see them side by side, it will be easier to zero in on the combination of features that will best suit your purpose.

Click here to view RMT’s product comparison page.

As you may have observed, these devices are not one-trick ponies; some of them can fit into more than one category.  It is possible that you may see a device in one category that for some reason you think will work better for a different purpose than the one outlined on the site.

If you are not sure of which product to use, do not hesitate to call Rocky Mountain Tracking at 1-877-477-9668. In addition to providing top of the line products, RMT also give you top notch service.

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For those of you who need a personal tracking product, look no further than RMT’s new PT-200 GPS. At only a few inches in length, it’s the world’s smallest GPS tracking unit for personal tracking. It’s small size means that in can be unobtrusively placed in or on the object of your choice. Although it is small in size, it is great in tracking power: the PT-200 also makes excellent use of Qualcomm’s patented CDMA GPS One technology.

With the PT-200 you will be able to track, secure and, if necessary, recover your assets, either in real time or on demand. The PT-200 works in hard-to-imagine locations like the inside closed packages or trailers. And it does all this without using external antennas.

When you decide to use the PT-200 to stay informed about your assets, you will not be charged an activation fee. The monthly service plans for the PT-200 can be upgraded or downgraded when you want when you request this change in writing. You are not locked in, so you can customize your use of the PT-200 to fit your current needs. Plus, overages are only $0.05 for each locate.

With the PT-200, you will all the information you need to keep up with your packages and assets.
It features:
Long Battey Life (10-21 days on continuous use)
Location History with Complete Address, Date and Time Stamp
Real Time Tracking and Location of Asset

Go to Rocky Mountain Tracking’s website to learn more about the PT-200 and find out how you can purchase the world’s smallest personal tracking unit.

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Can a GPS device help you to help the environment? Why, yes it can. GPS devices that track driving behavior can clue you in to some of your driving habits that are less than environmentally sound.

(Yes, some of you may be saying that driving itself isn’t exactly great for the Earth. True, but many of us do drive and if you are going to drive, you might as well do what you can to conserve.)

So what driving habits are less than helpful to the environment: any driving habits that waste gas. A GPS tracking device can alert you to idling, speeding and sudden stops. You may have already started driving slower to conserve gas since the prices have skyrocketed. However, you may be unaware of these other driving practices that use up more fuel and do little reduce carbon emissions. Once you see just how often you make sudden stops you can adjust your driving style. Or when you get feedback from A GPS devices that indicates that you spend a lot of time idling while you wait to pick someone up or going through a fast food drive-through, you will be motivated to rethink your driving patterns.

And if you and your family or you and your employees drive several cars, then just think of the amount of fuel that you may be wasting. Installing GPS tracking devices on the vehicles that you and others in your business or household drive could really be an eye-opener.

Visit Rocky Mountain Tracking online today and read more about how GPS tracking devices can help you save fuel and be more environmentally conscious.

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With so many machines and technological devices around us everyday, we tend to trust them implicitly. We assume that they must be right, rarely stopping to consider that some machines are older than others and that these older machines are prone to error.

Such was the case when eighteen-year-only Shaun Malone found himself accused to speeding. According to police radar, Shaun was driving at a speed of 62 miles per hour in a zone where the speed limit was 45 mph. However, because Malone’s parents had installed a Rocky Mountain Tracking GPS device in his car, he was able to plead “Not Guilty” to speeding.

How was that possible, you ask? It was possible because the GPS tracking device employs the every latest technology. The GPS device sends out a signal every 30 seconds, as well as an email alert whenever the driver exceeds the speed of 70 mph. Evidence gathered from the tracking device proved that Shaun Malone was not speeding as the police radar had concluded he was; he was actually driving at the speed limit.

Malone’s parents certainly did not want to catch him speeding, but they probably didn’t imagine that Malone would be unfairly accused of speeding and that the tracking device would be key in proving his innocence.

Visit Rocky Mountain Tracking online to learn more about GPS tracking devices in general. You can also stop by the Teen Tracking page to get more specifics on how a tracking device can help you keep up with your teens—whether they are speeding or not. See related news on Slashdot.

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On Monday, we discussed how a GPS tracking device from Rocky Mountain Tracking was used to recover a stolen BMW.

Maybe you are wondering just how this was possible. After all, there are many stolen vehicles that are never found. In this particular case, the thief (who had defaulted on car payments made with stolen money) had driven the vehicle to the city of Atlanta, which was 600 miles away from its original location.

According to Brad Borst of Rocky Mountain Tracking, “There were about 1.5 million auto repossessions last year, up by at least 10 per cent from 2006. But repossession is not always easy when vehicle owners move or leave the state. Unlike the 20-year-old technology that is still on the market, RM Tracking’s GPS tracking solution offers advanced technology with live web-based tracking - every auto recovery agent’s true friend.”

That was certainly proved in this recently incident. Stephen Stough of Stough Intertational, a private investigative firm, was able to call RM Tracking for customer support. He got in touch with technical supervisor Cory Cowger. Cowger was able to give Stough live positions of the vehicle from the web-based tracking software. Getting information like the location, direction of travel and vehicle speed helped Stough to locate the stolen BMW. In fact he was able to get the car without incident when it came to a stop.

Sure it probably wasn’t nearly as exciting as a car chase in the movies, but Stough and the vehicle’s owner are probably glad (as you would be if your vehicle had to be recovered).

You can learn more about GPS tracking and vehicle recovery at RM Tracking’s website.

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We’ve discussed how GPS tracking devices can be of great help to people in various professions and also looked at how GPS devices can be used to recover stolen property. So it just makes sense that if your job involves recovering stolen property, you would want to rely on GPS technology. And if you were someone who was affected by a crime involving stolen property, you would want the investigator to use every tool at their disposal.

Stephen Stough of Stough International credits a GPS tracking device from Rocky Mountain Tracking with giving him the edge he needed to recover a $16,000 BMW.

Stough was able to track down the vehicle with the help of Rocky Mountain Tracking’s technical support team. If he were relying on products purchased from a different company, he may not have been able to rely on that type of assistance.

But this was a theft with a twist: this BMW has been purchased illegally using someone’s banking information. So getting this vehicle back didn’t just affect the owner, it may have also had a bearing on the credit of an innocent identity theft victim since the thief had defaulted on payments.

Rocky Mountain Tracking was founded in 2003, and our headquarters are based in Fort Collins, Colorado. NavIQ, RMT’s state-of-the art tracking solution, has become increasingly popular for fleet tracking, vehicle recovery and the tracking of people nationwide. Stop by the Rocky Mountain Tracking website today to learn more about how a GPS tracking device can help you keep tabs on your vehicle.

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In one county in New York state, the topic of using GPS tracking to keep tabs on employees has been on a lot of people’s minds lately.

The police force there already has GPS tracking devices on their cars. The idea is that it is much easier to dispatch police if their location is immediately known. They can get to a place where there has been an accident or arrive at the scene of a crime sooner because real-time tracking lets the dispatcher know which officers are closest to the area of need.

Now this county wants to install GPS tracking devices on county-owned vehicles and there has been some debate about it. One county official told the media that they are only going to refer to the data if it is needed. If some there is some need to look into an employees work record because of a complaint, then they will review the driving records.

It is tricky when governments decide to use GPS tracking. They have a responsibility to their staff and to their constituents. Staff wants to feel comfortable in their work environment. While constituents need to know that their tax dollars are not being abused by employees who take liberties with government-issued vehicles.

Rocky Mountain Tracking has both passive and active GPS tracking devices. Some can record a driver’s movements and habits in real time. Others will only let you download information after a trip is complete. If you are an employer looking for GPS tracking devices, contact us and we can help you decide which kind of GPS tracking device will work best for you.

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Earlier this week, I wrote about how parents in Alabama, along with a local tv news station, got together to get a little information on one teen’s driving habits.

The teenager in question was not told beforehand that his driving habits were going to be monitored using a GPS tracking device. And, as you can imagine, he was not happy when he found out what had happened.

The teen denied going at a rate of 95 miles per hour, as the tracking device indicated. He also did not want to give his parents any information on where he had been one Friday night. The GPS tracking device not only recorded his speed, it also kept track of where he went. One of his stops was at a location that was unknown to his parents.

The tv news station paid for the tacking device and presumably aired footage about this experiment. They had a therapist on hand to provide commentary. The therapist pointed out that parents can expect backlash if they track teen drivers and do not tell them

You may or may not agree with what these parents did. They themselves wondered if they did the right thing in tracking their son’s driving habits without telling him and while cooperating with the media.

However, if you have teen drivers in your house, you may still want to consider installing a tracking device on the vehicles they drive so that you can be aware of how they are driving and where they are going. Unlike the parents in case, you may elect to tell your teen that they are being tracked so that they will be aware and hopefully engage in good driving habits so you need not intervene.

Visit the Rocky Mountain Tracking website the check out teen tracking devices.

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Remember the old show “Candid Camera?” A person would be set up to walk into an unusual situation and be recorded without being aware. At some point, someone would pop out and tell them to smile because they were one “Candid Camera.”

One Alabama teenager was not smiling after he found out that his parents had teamed up with a local tv news station to track his driving habits using a GPS tracking device. The tv station paid for the tracking device and the young man’s parents agreed to put it on his truck without telling him. The parents were fairly confident that their son was following the rules of the road. At the same time they said that they were not the kind of parents who would say “my child would never do this or that.”

When they saw the information recorded from the GPS tracking device they learned that they were right not to assume they knew everything about their son’s driving habits.

While he did not have an exhibit continuously reckless driving habits there were a couple of red flags. According to information from the tracking device, he drove at 95 miles an hour once. He also stopped at a location that was unrecognizable to his parents.

Certainly, everyone will not be able to work with a tv news station to get a tracking device. Rocky Mountain Tracking (RMT) has GPS tracking devices available that you can use if you are concerned about your teenager’s driving habits. They are affordable and easy to use. RMT provides comprehensive customer support for its teen tracking devices and all of its other products.

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