Nov 26 2012

New jobsite mileage GPS tracking report saves customer 4 hours a month

We have a new customer with a few hundred vehicles.  But they have 4 delivery vehicles whose miles need to be internally billed to each of their various job sites for accounting purposes.  It takes one of their employees about 4 hours each month to get this data out of the current stop detail report we provide.

They asked us if we would build them a custom GPS tracking report to help.

Here’s a depiction of how they assign mileage to job sites:

Delivery workflow & mileage calculation

Delivery workflow & mileage calculation

All mileage from the warehouse or another job site needs to be allocated to the NEXT job site reached, to include miles spent going to non-job sites (such as McDonald’s, above).

The mileage spent heading BACK to the warehouse needs to be assigned to the most recent job site serviced.

Rather than go through a stop/detail report, line by line, for hundreds or thousands of trips for a month, we created this consolidated GPS tracking report, called the “Delivery Vehicle Mileage” report:

New Custom Delivery Mileage Report

New Custom Delivery Mileage GPS Tracking Report

Here is the output with client specific information blurred out:

Easy totals for mileage to job sites

Easy totals for mileage to job sites

Note the red arrows illustrate mileage TO the job site, and a couple blue arrows show mileage FROM the job site deadheading back to the yard.

Any group of vehicles as well as starting/reset landmarks such as a warehouse and job site landmarks may be chosen and it can be run for 31 days at a time (and we can always increase that restriction if the number of vehicles/landmarks are reasonable and you need quarterly reports instead).

And the best part: Instead of it taking this customer 4 hours a month to tabulate through a mind-numbing stop detail report, they can now run it in about 2 seconds with this report we built for them (and any customers who may require it in the future):

2 seconds to do 4 hours work

2 seconds to do 4 hours work

As always, we appreciate customer requests, and accommodate them better than any other GPS Tracking provider out there.  Keep them coming — when we help our customers, we help the product as well!

Rob.

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Oct 17 2012

Add Custom Fields to your GPS Tracking Reports (plus bonus columns)

We give customers the ability to create and populate their own custom attributes and categories for vehicles and other GPS Insight objects.  Now you can add them to your GPS tracking reports!

First you have to create and assign attributes and values to vehicles like this:

Assign "Compressor Type" to your vehicles

Assign "Compressor Type" to your vehicles

(this is just a test but you get the idea!)

Then you can add that and other custom attributes to your report definition:

Add Custom Attributes

Add Custom Attributes

Just choose each attribute you want, in the order in which you want them to appear in the report.  If you decide to remove one, just check the “remove X” next to it.

Note there is a new extra “bonus” option of “show current location” which allows you to add the vehicle’s CURRENT location to most reports where it was typically left off (e.g. monthly utilization reports like this one).  It is highlighted above, and I check it before running this report, but it’s off by default, as shown.

Now your GPS tracking report will contain YOUR custom data, as shown below:

Custom Attributes in Reports

Custom Attributes in GPS Tracking Reports

Note that you can now see Compressor Type, Bed_length, and Order Number (all just for illustration purposes) on the report as well as on the maps in the custom tab (below):

Custom Attributes and Categories in GPS Insight maps

Custom Attributes and Categories in GPS Insight maps

We also support this in our 3D Google Earth-based maps (with a scrollable window so that you can fit everything in a single “bubble”):

Custom Attributes and Categories in GPS Insight maps

Custom Attributes and Categories in GPS Insight maps

We need to complete the addition of these to our scheduled reports mechanism, but that will be available soon.

Eventually we will allow you to also SORT, FILTER, and GROUP BY by these custom attributes, but for now, much of that is possible just by utilizing the Excel/CSV export of the report.

Please get with our Support staff if you need any training or further information on these powerful GPS tracking capabilities.

Thanks,
Rob.

 

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Jun 30 2012

More expensive GPS System beats that of a low cost one by $70/month

There is a fantastic article written by Chris Wolski which was just published in Automotive Fleet which talks about Telematics adoption and ROI rates over the past several years (2008-2011). [based on a survey taken by ARI, Donlen, and PHH]

The article is here.

It states that the range of MONTHLY ROI for a telematics initiative in 2011 was $185 – $225 (up significantly from $80-150 in 2008):

GPS Initiative ROI 2008-2011

GPS Initiative ROI 2008-2011

What the article does NOT mention is service prices, and the fact that the range in monthly ROI is very likely attributable to the overall capabilities of the GPS tracking solution chosen (e.g. bare-bones vs. high-end).

Amortizing the survey’s stated cost of the hardware over 4 years makes a $3.13 monthly difference between low and high-end.

Today’s service prices tend to range between $25 and $33 per month per vehicle and correlate to hardware costs (e.g. higher priced hardware tends to have higher priced service and ultimately higher ABSOLUTE ROI).

I did some basic math in Excel and calculated the PERCENTAGE ROI (vs. the ABSOLUTE ROI of $185-$225 provided in Chris’s article).

I found the percentage ROI was 734% for the low end solution, and 733% for the high end solution.  The percentage ROI is the SAME between low and high end solutions!

ROI % for high end and low-end GPS are both ~733%!

ROI % for high end and low-end GPS are both ~733%!

Therefore, companies are going to save an EXTRA $70 per month, per vehicle, according to the survey (taken by ARI/Donlen/PHH), by purchasing a higher end gps fleet tracking solution.

Within 2 1/2 months, the extra cost of the better solution has paid off for the incremental $150 in hardware and $3.13 per month.

And over the next 45 1/2 months (assuming a 4 year life on the hardware), an extra $3,185 flows to the bottom line PER VEHICLE.

For 100 vehicles, that’s $318,500.  And that’s ON TOP OF THE LOW END ROI — a total ROI of $1,224,000!

Obviously your exact savings will differ, but if you trust ARI, Donlen, and PHH, 3 of the biggest fleet leasing companies in the space, the message is clear:

Buy a higher end GPS Tracking solution and SAVE MORE!

I always use the following analogy when talking about ROI between a low end and high end GPS tracking solution (e.g. one which has more reports, more adaptability, better alerts and maps, and more API’s, etc.):

If you can buy a bar of SILVER for $25, that’s a great deal, and will give you fantastic ROI.

If you can alternately buy a MORE EXPENSIVE bar of GOLD for $40, your ROI is VASTLY more than if you purchased the bar of silver.

Better ROI for paying extra for a bar of gold vs. silver

Better ROI for paying extra for a bar of gold vs. silver

The bar of gold costs more, but will yield significantly more ROI if you pay the small premium.

We hear this ALL THE TIME — “we went with the lower cost solution.”

Unfortunately it’s not about absolute cost — it’s about the OPPORTUNITY COST of not going with a solution that will really fit your costly business challenges in a way that a higher end (and slightly more costly) solution does.  And by the way, those customers usually cancel and go with higher end solutions later on once they determine this for themselves.  I hope this article helps companies from making the wrong “penny-wise, pound-foolish” decision.

Thanks again for the great article Chris.

Here is a link to the charts in that article.

Thanks,

Rob.

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Jun 16 2012

Choose your GPS diet wisely

I see many fleet organizations make highly cost-driven decisions with respect to their choice of GPS tracking solutions.

I have been searching for a good analogy to help companies understand that GPS tracking is more than just about the cost (if you know me, you know I like analogies…).

Typically, I tell people that it’s not the cost — it’s the OPPORTUNITY COST — which fleets should worry about.

If by purchasing a cheap (not inexpensive, I do mean cheap) solution, the customer gives up the POSSIBILITY for significant additional ROI (return on investment) then they have made a terrible and all-too-typical decision.  Saving $10 per month per vehicle may cost them $100 since the low cost products typically can’t be easily adapted to exact, costly business challenges which is where GPS Tracking should be directed.  They may not have all the necessary reports, alerts, API’s, maps, and features which add up quickly to provide exceptional ROI.

At the same time, choosing a too-fully-functioned solution which costs more and goes under-utilized also is a bad decision.  A fleet with few vehicles and a simple set of requirements doesn’t need every bell and whistle, and should choose accordingly.

So here’s my analogy:

Think of GPS Tracking as your permanent restaurant of choice.  Not just for you, but all your company’s employees as well.  And for every meal moving forward.  You get one chance to get it right, and if you don’t, you and your colleagues will be ill-fed for years to come.

You don’t want your whole company to eat somewhere cheap — call it at the “burger shack” — every day in the future (and given some providers’ contracts, this is realistically 2-5 years).

Don't buy the cheap burger equivalent of a GPS Tracking System

Don't buy the cheap burger equivalent of a GPS Tracking System

They will not give everyone the nutrition they require to stay healthy.  Plus the menu is very limited and won’t allow different meals for different employees who have different dietary requirements.  It’s cheap, undeniably, but you get what you pay for, and you probably shouldn’t expect for many new dishes to be added to the menu in the future.

Likewise, you don’t need to eat at the high-end Steakhouse where everything is overpriced, over-sized, and generally too much for your appetite.

And don't go overboard for the Steakhouse either

And don't go overboard for the Steakhouse either

Instead, find a medium-priced buffet or sit-down restaurant where there are plenty of options — healthy options — and significant value for all the employees who will dine there with you.

Choose a GPS Solution with something good for everyone

Choose a GPS Solution with something good for everyone

You want plenty of diversity in the product you choose as a GPS Tracking system.  Additionally, you want value and maybe most importantly, you want them to have an “A” rating — not the cheapest restaurant you can find.  Do you ever eat at restaurants with “C” inspection results in their window?  They’re cheap, yes.  But also likely to make you sick and get shut down eventually.  Splurge and choose a good one which will provide you the best return on your investment and time.  GPS is one of the most important systems your company will ever implement, and choosing the cheapest one will give you indigestion at best.  The benefits from choosing a good one far exceed the costs savings from choosing a cheap one.

Rob

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Jun 02 2012

New Hierarchy Editor available within GPS Insight

Our first Hierarchy Editor served us fine for large customers using our Hierarchy capabilities.  However, as customers got bigger, they had more requirements, and we just launched a brand new version of this editor today.

If you don’t already have the Hierarchy capability turned on within GPS Insight call support or your salesperson (if you are a large customer, it’s worthwhile, but it’s overkill if you don’t have a few hundred vehicles).

Here is how you launch it within the GPS Insight portal:

Launching GPS Insight's Hierarchy Editor

Launching GPS Insight's Hierarchy Editor

Then you will be taken to the new editor:

New GPS Insight Hierarchy Editor

New GPS Insight Hierarchy Editor

Some of the nice new and previously available capabilities include:

You are able to see ALL object types assigned to a node at once and expand them:

See all objects associated with a Hierarchy Node at once

See all objects associated with a Hierarchy Node at once

You can Minimize them easily with one click of the “minus’ at the top of any group:

Collapse a tree easily
Collapse a tree easily

And you can easily drag and drop any unassigned objects after filtering them (in this case, we entered “ba” to restrict to those vehicles containing “ba” and then selected two, and assigned them to the “BAK” branch which had been selected on the far left):

Drag and drop to assign vehicles, landmarks, etc.

Drag and drop to assign vehicles, landmarks, etc.

Additionally, the custom hierarchy group editor has this new look and feel:

Hierarchy Custom Group Editor

Hierarchy Custom Group Editor

One of the nicest capabilities is the ability to scroll should you expand the hierarchy tree taller than your window — that was always a restriction in the last version.

Please let us know if you are interested in using the hierarchy and we will work with you to ensure it is made available appropriately.

Thanks,

Rob.

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May 06 2012

Have it your way! — Add data you want to GPS Insight now!

We just released our newest feature — CUSTOMER SPECIFIC CUSTOM CATEGORIES AND ATTRIBUTES.

This is a big deal.

Here’s how it works (silly example — but you’ll get the concept & can adapt to your needs):

Say your company is an ice cream delivery company and you need to know what type of ice cream each truck carries.

Launch Custom Categories and Attributes here:

Open Category/Attribute creation screen

Open Category/Attribute creation screen

Then click on “Create new Attribute” (you can choose to treat it like a category, which is a set of pre-populated values, in the next screen):

Create a new Attribute (or category)

Create a new Attribute (or category)

Then make some changes in the highlighted fields and create your category (this is for Ice Cream Type).

Create a Custom Category

Create a Custom Category

Do the same to create your Attribute (Freezer Capacity in Gallons):

Create a custom Attribute within GPS Insight

Create a custom Attribute within GPS Insight

Then click on one of the available green “checkmarks” to assign values to your vehicles.  Note that Custom Categories and Attributes can be assigned to Users, Vehicles, Drivers, Landmarks, and Hierarchy Nodes:

Click on a category "checkbox" to assign values

Click on a category "checkmark" to assign values

Now you can assign your pre-determined Category values by clicking on each vehicles’ list of options and choosing one.  Soon, you will be able to use a new interface to choose multiple options, and we will allow for spreadsheet import assignment of custom values to vehicles & other GPS Insight Object types.

Assign Ice Cream Types to your trucks

Assign Ice Cream Types to your trucks

Then assign your freezer capacity values:

Assign freezer capacity values

Assign freezer capacity values

And now, you can click on the “Custom” tab within GPS Insight’s 2D mapping to see the custom categories/attributes and the vehicle’s values.  This is helpful when referencing business specific information on a particular truck, and can be customized to keep track of ANYTHING you want.

Custom Category and Attributes displayed in GPS Insight maps

Custom Category and Attributes displayed in GPS Insight maps

We also show this data in free-form format within 3D mapping when choosing a vehicle:

GPS Insight 3D Mapping with custom category and attribute information

GPS Insight 3D Mapping with custom category and attribute information

And you can re-use that category in order to assign it to landmarks (or anything) — let’s say our distribution centers need to ALSO be labeled with a particular Ice Cream type:

Edit a Category to assign it to another object category

Edit a Category to assign it to another object category

Check the “Landmark” checkbox:

Add Landmarks to a custom Category

Add Landmarks to a custom Category

And now you can click on the NEW green checkmark to start editing the values for your landmarks:

Edit Landmark Category Values with one click

Edit Landmark Category Values with one click

Just click, enter, and OK each landmark (this will use our new rapid edit screen soon for even quicker entry):

Edit values for a landmark's Ice Cream Type

Edit values for a landmark's Ice Cream Type

And now when looking at that landmark, it will show you that information informationally:

Show custom information about a Landmark within GPS Insight using Categories and Attributes

Show custom information about a Landmark within GPS Insight using Categories and Attributes

And when it’s time to “clean up” (as I need to do after using a customer for this example…) you just click on the trash can to delete the Category/Attribute and all associated data (we ask you to confirm first):

Delete a Category/Attribute after you're done with it

Delete a Category/Attribute after you're done with it

And coming soon, you’ll be able to use Categories and Attributes when filtering vehicles on a map, vehicles to appear in a report, and as parameters and filters in alerts (e.g. you’ll be able to set a “max number of minutes idling before alert” on different vehicles and alert whenever that threshold is exceeded).

Here is a sample screen (proof of concept):

Filter vehicles using Category and Attribute values

Filter vehicles using Category and Attribute values

This is REALLY POWERFUL STUFF and will help us to do even more custom work for our customers easily.  Between the Hierarchy capabilities and the Custom Categories and Attributes, the sky is the limit as to how granular we can get in your mapping, reporting, and alerting capabilities.

Please let us know if you need some training on this powerful new capability.

Thanks,

Rob.

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Apr 03 2012

1000 times easier report and alert administration — new custom attributes and categories in GPS Insight

We have a new capability which will make the administration of scheduled reports and alerts literally 1000 times easier for large fleets (e.g. more than 1,000 vehicles).

A customer which has 300 or so pilot devices has created roughly 175 scheduled reports to run for each of their groups to each of the appropriate recipients, for ONLY THREE SEPARATE REPORTS!

And now that they are moving forward with over 4000 total vehicles, that would imply roughly 2,000 would need to exist in total.  Just to send the right person 3 reports each week.

Since GPS Insight prides itself on delivering insight WITHOUT too much difficulty, we redesigned how certain capabilities work within the product to leverage our hierarchy and soon-to-be-released custom categories and attributes.

Here’s how it works (using a different customer as an example):

First, go to our new “one click” menus to bring up the Custom Categories & Attributes screen:

Open up the Hierarchy "describe with custom categories/attributes" menu

Open up the Hierarchy "describe with custom categories/attributes" menu

Once that’s open, create a new attribute:

Create a custom Attribute/Category

Create a custom Attribute/Category

You can define many things to include the name, what GPS Insight “objects” you can set values on, the value type (email list, in our case, or date, integer, etc.), and whether or not to treat it as a category (e.g. pick-list of predefined values), as well as visibility/editability by other users:

Define Attribute/Category properties

Define Attribute/Category properties

I will also create an unrelated category called “Maintenance Type” for vehicles here:

Creating a custom category in GPS Insight

Creating a custom category in GPS Insight

Then when you are done, you see the “matrix” of available custom categories/attributes and the various types of objects they can be applied to (e.g. users, vehicles, drivers, landmarks, and hierarchy nodes — soon we will add others):

GPS Insight custom categories / attributes and the objects to which they've been assigned

GPS Insight custom categories / attributes and the objects to which they've been assigned

Now I can actually add the values — one (or more) email address per geographic node (or any type of hierarchy node).

Assigning email addresses to Hierarchy Nodes

Assigning email addresses to Hierarchy Nodes

This is where it gets REALLY POWERFUL:

If you want to create a scheduled report, you can choose ONLY the hierarchy and the “Address” corresponding to your new “Custom (email) Attribute” and the hierarchy will be “traversed” so that each city/state/region and the top-most node (US) will have a report for ONLY the vehicles in that region/state/city sent to ONLY the email address specified at each level.

This means instead of almost 2,000 reports to be defined, you only have to define >> THREE << !!!  (assuming all you want are the 3 you’re interested in — of course there are no practical limits to how many reports you define within GPS Insight).  And if the recipients for each area for them are the same, you only have to create the hierarchy once, assign the vehicles once, and enter the emails once.  And soon we will have an automated spreadsheet upload as well as FTP mechanism to create the hierarchy and specify vehicles/contacts on a regular basis for our large customers with systems where they can be easily exported.

Additionally, when I want to create an alert for all vehicles, sending the idling alert to the APPROPRIATE RECIPIENT(s) and escalating it appropriately to higher and higher levels of management, all you need to do is complete an alert creation form like this:

Create Idle Alert for thousands of vehicles/recipients in GPS Insight

Create Idle Alert for thousands of vehicles/recipients in GPS Insight

This fundamentally creates 5 separate idling reports — one for the driver him or herself at 15 minutes, where they’re emailed or texted (or sent via Garmin) a message asking them to turn off their vehicle, and 4 more for the higher levels (city, state, region, and US).  However, unlike previously, where there was a “static” recipient or set of recipients for each “level,” now if an Atlanta vehicle is idling for 20 minutes or more, the Atlanta contact receives the alert.  If it’s a Charlotte or Phoenix vehicle, the appropriate Charlotte or Phoenix contacts get the alert.  Then if it’s 30, 40, 60 minutes, the appropriate supervisor/directory/CEO (etc.) will receive it for ONLY the vehicles for which they’re responsible.

This would literally take creating hundreds, even thousands of alerts with separate vehicle groups, separate recipients, at each of the levels of your organization.

Instead you create one alert and it acts like all of those.

PLUS, you can have any number of hierarchies — perhaps it’s better to have a vehicle-type hierarchy where the managers of the delivery vehicles is separate than those of the service, support, sales, etc. vehicles — you can use that type of hierarchy rather than a geographic hierarchy, and the same principles apply.

This is a really powerful aspect of GPS Insight, and sometimes hard to understand why it’s so important.  Trust me, for multi-thousand vehicle fleet customers, it’s the difference between a very simple administrative way of sending out reports and alerts, and a colossal nightmare of constantly changing vehicle groups, report/alert recipients, etc.  It’s also very helpful for smaller customers who have a large number of alerts and reports to administer.

And if it’s easy to administer, customers use the product.  But if it’s a nightmare, they give up and that “unattended return on investment,” as I like to call it, is completely wasted just because the product isn’t used to its fullest.

Please bear in mind these two features are dependent on the hierarchy capabilities, which are not generally turned on for all accounts (to keep smaller accounts from using it when they’re better off with simple vehicle groups).  If you want access, please let us know and we will discuss the suitability and availability for your account.  It may be a week or two before these features are fully available.

In the near future, custom categories and attributes will allow you to describe your vehicles/landmarks/users/drivers, and drive filters for which vehicles to show on a map, allow you to easily reference aspects of drivers/vehicles/landmarks (such as drivers license #, certifications, vehicle equipment and capacity, notes about a location or customer, and more).  We will keep you posted as these incredibly powerful capabilities are available in production.

Thanks,

Rob.

 

 

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Feb 22 2012

More fuel pumped than the vehicle’s capacity? We let you know that in a new addition to our Fuel Transaction Report

We’ve added new functionality to our Wright Express Fuel Card integration.

Now you can specify how big your fuel tanks are for each vehicle, and be alerted whenever more than that amount of fuel is pumped using a Wright Express Fuel Card.

Here is where you edit the vehicle from the vehicle administration page:

Opening the Vehicle Edit Page

Opening the Vehicle Edit Page

And where you enter the # of gallons for the gas tank:

Enter the number of gallons the fuel tank holds

Enter the number of gallons the fuel tank holds

Now when you run the WEX Fuel Transaction Report you have a new option, which is to show ONLY the exceptions:

New "Exceptions only" option to Wright Express Transaction Card

New "Exceptions only" option to Wright Express Transaction Card

The arrows pointing from “Too Much Fuel” show you where your fuel card was used to purchase more fuel than the vehicle’s capacity.  We have artificially understated the fuel tank capacity in some of our vehicles in order to simulate a true exception in this report:

New % of tank capacity column in WEX Transaction Report

New % of tank capacity column in WEX Transaction Report

So now you can check to see when a vehicle’s card is used for non-fuel purchases, too much fuel for the vehicle’s tank, or when it’s used and the vehicle isn’t actually present.

This is a great report for validating your drivers’ use of your fuel cards, and to make sure they aren’t taking advantage of them.

Additionally, you can sort on percentage of fuel tank and see when drivers are fueling when they don’t really need to.

Next change, I think, will be LONG STOPS at fuel stations, which can be used to determine both drivers who take too long to fuel, as well as stations with really slow pumps (I experienced this recently and spent 12 minutes pumping 20 gallons of fuel in the middle of nowhere — it was the inspiration for this modification….)

Rob.

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Nov 27 2011

Would you do away with email for your company to save a few dollars?

Would you do away with email for your company to save a few dollars?

Of course not!

Email is an invaluable tool for any organization, and its value is known to be far more than its cost.

But many companies don’t realize that by delaying the inevitable purchase of GPS Tracking for their fleet of vehicles, it’s essentially doing away with email. For their vehicles.

And these vehicles have lots to tell us, but without GPS Tracking Systems, they can’t.

They might want to tell you, the fleet administrator or supervisor:

  • I’m being used for side jobs and during weekends/evenings for personal usage
  • I’m exceeding the speed limit frequently and recklessly
  • I’m not being used when you’re paying my driver to use me
  • I’m iding excessively and wasting your fuel and money
  • I’m skipping customers or driving out of the way so you can pay more overtime
  • I’m due for an oil change and tire rotation
  • I wasn’t there when your driver used his fuel card over the weekend (but his other car probably was…)

And these emails can come automatically, just by subscribing to scheduled, regular reports:

Odd Hours Driving Report

Odd Hours Driving Report

Or they can come in real time as alerts which let not only you, but also your driver know about the idling, speeding, odd-hours, or inefficient driving behavior.

Or maybe they would only say:

  • My driver is doing a great job
  • Everything is OK
  • Go to sleep and stop worrying for a change…

And most importantly, you get instant chat for free with GPS Tracking — you never need to wonder where the vehicle is again, and you can communicate with its driver in real time if desired.

Someday soon, if you don’t have GPS Tracking on your vehicles, and aren’t using it to its full potential, you’ll be just as in the dark ages as if you didn’t have email. Just like when you needed to use the USPS to send and receive information (we’ll even skip the FAX ages).

And for the price of 2-3 stamps or so per day, you can track a vehicle using GPS.

If you’re not already doing so, give it a try to see what you’re missing.

The ROI of having your vehicle email you regularly is something you’ll realize is as invaluable as the email you receive from your peers. Actually, maybe even more valuable.

Rob.

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Jul 19 2011

GPS Insight helps a customer during a carjacking

Category: Extreme Return on Investment,Safetyrdonat @ 6:26 pm

We received this fax yesterday:

GPS Insight helps police arrest 2 carjackers

GPS Insight helps police arrest 2 carjackers

Our customer’s son was carjacked at gunpoint. The vehicle was quickly recovered and 2 suspects (and their firearm) were taken into custody.

The Press got it wrong — it was the customer’s cellphone which helped her track the vehicle and lead police to it.  She was using our iPhone app to track the vehicle every 2 minutes. The GPS Insight device was inside the vehicle. Had it been a cellphone, they probably would have thrown it out the window.

So 2 bad guys should be going to jail for a long time.

We love these stories, and usually get one or two every month.

GPS Insight: $32.95 a month. Not losing your car, and putting the 2 guys who put a gun to your kid’s head in jail:  Priceless.

Rob.

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