Jan 29 2011
Someone brought this to my attention recently.
If you use Google Maps to get directions “From: United States, To: Japan” it gives you the following instruction at #31:
Kayak across the Pacific Ocean
It suggests you Kayak across the Pacific Ocean.
Kayak across the Pacific Ocean
Again, a good reason to sanity-check the directions your computer or Garmin give you…
Rob.
Oct 26 2010
We get a lot of inquiries from Chinese manufacturers (all of our hardware is assembled here in the United States by the way).
This one made me laugh — a lot.
poo 7
Why in the world would you name your device the Poo 7 (or any numbered variant of the word Poo)?
I wonder how well it works… True to its name? I’m guessing something got lost in translation.
We won’t be selling it anytime soon…
Rob.
Aug 23 2010
How true, again from our favorite geek comic strip, XKCD.
GPS Navigation Humor
Original here:
Rob.
Aug 14 2010
I was at Bass Pro Shop today getting some fishing things for my boys who want to go fishing.
I had to take a picture of this guy & his shirt.
Real Cowboys Don't Need GPS
I guess that is the end of our steer tracking initiative…
Hilarious!
[p.s. I checked online to see where to get this for those of you who can't wait to own your own.
Here you go: http://www.fortwestern.com/store/product.php?productid=421243&cat=509&page=5
Real Cowboys don't need GPS
Real Cowboys don't need GPS
Only $14.98…
Rob.
Apr 14 2010
This is very to the point:
Our reports and proactive alerts help you to ensure your drivers are not idling.
It’s both wasteful and impacts our environment.
I pulled up a relatively new customer at random & ran an idling report for them & was happy to see that they CUT THEIR IDLING 75% WITH PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT!
Here is how I ran the report:
Run a GPS Insight Idle Time History Report
The report came up in 1.6 seconds & quantified 33,400 hours of driving since January, and the Purple Line (the important line) shows a marked decrease from a high of 20% idling to a current low of 5%:
75% Reduction in idling percentage
The full report shows all the particulars & shows very clearly the effects of both using GPS Insight as well as managing the drivers to stop idling:
Decrease from 20% to 5% idling over 3 months
Note that this is only one of our thousand customers, and only 234 vehicles. I like the fact that GPS Insight truly is helping our customers make a big difference both in terms of saving fuel money, and the environment.
Another report shows that they have saved roughly TWO THOUSAND IDLING HOURS across their fleet of 234 vehicles by eliminating that 15% idling (based on 13,000 hours driven in the past month). With fuel costs plus wear & tear easily costing $5 per hour, they’ve seen a $10,000 PER MONTH savings, which is $42 per vehicle. We charge them $32.95. So they make $9 per month just by reducing idling, and now they have all the other benefits of GPS Insight for free – efficient dispatch, proof of delivery, proof of driver hours worked, reduction in speeding, theft recovery, and so on.
Plus they’re not pi$$ing on the planet anymore…
Click to learn more about our GPS Fleet Tracking System.
Rob.
Dec 15 2009
Watch some of the GPS Insight staff “get down” in a hilarious dancing elves video.
Happy Holidays!
(click below to watch the video)
Sep 26 2009
We don’t sell to individuals for a reason, but this isn’t exactly the reason…
Jealous GPS
The good old Onion is a favorite source of news for me…
Rob.
May 14 2009
We just exhibited NAFA in New Orleans in April.
During our downtime on Bourbon St., I wandered into Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo.
I found an alternative for customers unwilling to pay for a good GPS Tracking product:
Only $8.95! Seriously, we rarely try to sell our product strictly on the asset recovery aspects, since there are many more significant drivers of ROI (idling, speeding, efficient dispatch, off-hours usage, maintenance, etc.). But we generally hear about a vehicle or two each month which was recovered because they used GPS Insight. That probably means there are several we don’t hear about either each month.
Using the odd-hours alert, and cc’ing the driver of the vehicle, you can alert drivers to the fact that their truck is being moved (stolen) in the middle of the night as well, which is a very proactive way of avoiding theft. Additionally you can tell the alert to exclude homes so that driving it from the street into the driveway won’t trip a false alert.
Or you can use the Saint Anne figurine…
Rob.
Apr 16 2009
We got this request in Spanish the other day:
No one here speaks Spanish — we need to work on that as our product now works in Mexico and other Latin American countries.
So we used the internet to translate it “automagically.”
It returned this:
We had a friend translate it and apparently “pie” should really be “country…”
Glad we caught that before developing a product for that emerging daily pie theft market near the Equator (should be Ecuador).
If you have something other than pies you would like to track (preferably with wheels) please give us a call & we will help you out.
Thanks,
Rob
