GPS Fleet Tracking for Concrete & Ready-Mix

A ready-mix dispatcher spends the day deciding which truck gets the next load. With every mixer on the live map and its status beside it, the decision is made from what the trucks are doing rather than what they last reported on the radio: three trucks are pouring at the bridge deck, one is waiting at a site whose pump has not arrived, two are washing out and one is on its way back empty. Geofences around the plant, each job site and the washout pad advance the status automatically as the truck moves through the cycle. The board updates itself.

High Point GPS connects the tracking to the batching and dispatch software the plant already runs, so the batch ticket and the truck's live position share one record. The customer's foreman sees the next truck's arrival time on their phone or hears it from the dispatcher, and the pour is scheduled to the truck rather than to a hope.

The record of a load starts when the truck leaves the plant geofence with the batch time attached. The map shows the time since batching for every loaded truck, and an alert reaches the dispatcher when a truck has been waiting at a site long enough to put the load at risk. When a load is rejected on site for being past its time, the record shows whether the truck arrived at 22 minutes and waited 70, or left the plant late, and the conversation with the customer starts from that.

Wait time is money on both sides of the ticket. The platform records the arrival at the job-site geofence, the start of discharge from the drum input, and the departure, so the wait-time charge on the invoice is a measured figure the customer can be shown. Cycle-time reports per site and per customer show which jobs consistently hold trucks and which contractors are ready when the mixer arrives.

A loaded mixer has the highest centre of gravity of any truck on the road, and its rollover risk on a corner or a ramp is a matter of physics. The platform's driver-scoring rules for a ready-mix fleet weight cornering and ramp speed accordingly, so a cornering event that would be minor in a straight truck is scored as what it is in a mixer. Supervisors coach from a specific event on a specific delivery, and the record shows the coaching happened.

AI dash cams add the road-facing view for the incident review and the driver-facing view for distraction on the long haul back to the plant. On job sites, the road-facing camera records the ground guide, the pump and the site conditions, which is the evidence that settles a claim about a damaged curb or a truck that backed into something.

A mixer's engine runs whether the truck is moving or not, because the drum has to turn. Engine hours accumulate at idle at every job site and every washout, and mileage-based maintenance misses most of them. The GO device reads engine hours, and through the drum input, drum hours. MyGeotab then schedules engine, hydraulic and drum-drive service on the hours the truck actually works. Engine fault codes reach the shop as they are logged, which is how a cooling fault is fixed at the plant rather than on a hill with a full drum.

Electronic DVIR in the Geotab Drive app walks the driver through the mixer-specific checklist, including the chutes, the water system and the drum drive, and a defect reaches the shop before the first batch. The same platform holds the fuel record per truck, with idling reported per site so the plant sees which jobs burn diesel waiting.