Trailer tracking technology evolved a lot over the last 5 to 7 years and now you can have the set of features that few years ago you were able to find only in truck GPS tracking devices/solutions.
Benefits of Trailer Tracking Devices
The main benefit and the most simple one is to know what is the location of the trailer. Yeah – I know what you mean: That the description of device is saying too but seriously guys it is really important.
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Some of the companies that are using just tractor operated kind of freight have great issues with finding their trailers.
Some of them have even up to 50 trailers lost without having a clue where those trailers are located.
Are they lost or someone just stole them. No one really knows.
Source: www.gpoausa.com
But of course that is the main reason and benefit trucking companies want to invest addition funds in trailer tracking solution/devices but there is more to get.
Of course this set of features it depends of the trailer tacking device itself but if you decide to go after the best ones and buy them this is a set of features you can expect to have:
- tracking position of the all company trailers
- monitoring reefer temperature and automatically create temperature reports
- get alerted and recorded every time some one opened the trailer door
- get realtime trailer location in intervals of just 30 seconds
- alarms if reefer trailer gets out of fuel or the fuel level is at minimum
Depending of the trucking company this kind of trailers and trailer tracking units and possibilities can be really important and business changing features. Learn them and every time you go and talk with your GPS service provider ask them if they have a trailer tracking devices and what is the set of features they can provide.
What to have in mind when choosing the trailer tracking devices?
There is a huge difference between different trailer tracking service providers and devices it self.
