GPS Fleet Tracking for Freight & LTL Trucking

The dispatcher's hardest job is matching loads to drivers who still have the hours to run them. In the High Point GPS platform, the driver's remaining drive time, on-duty time and next required break appear beside the truck on the map, updated from the driver app as the driver's day unfolds. A planner sees that the driver at the Laval terminal has four hours left and the driver coming off a reset in Buffalo has a full clock, and assigns the load that fits. High Point GPS configures the US and Canadian rulesets, the cross-border switch and the exemptions the carrier actually uses.

The same system keeps the audit clean. Unassigned driving time is flagged for the driver to claim or for a manager to assign to yard moves, and edits leave an audit trail. A violations report shows which drivers are running close to the limit before an officer does. When a truck is pulled in at a scale, the driver hands over the roadside inspection view on the tablet, and the log the officer sees is the log the carrier has been watching all week. Driver summaries by week show who needs a conversation about log habits.

Detention is the accessorial carriers earn most and collect least. A geofence around each customer dock writes the arrival and departure of every truck, and the platform reports dwell time per stop with the driver and the trailer attached. When the shipper's dock held a truck for four hours and eleven minutes, the invoice line carries that figure and the record shows the truck sitting inside the fence for the whole period. A shipper who wants to dispute it is looking at a timestamped record from the carrier's own equipment rather than a driver's handwritten note.

The dock records serve the rest of the operation too. Average dwell by customer tells a sales manager which accounts are costing the fleet hours, and it is the number behind the next rate conversation. LTL terminals see each pickup and delivery stop in sequence with the time at each, which is how a dispatcher answers a shipper's status call without a phone call to the cab. Shippers who want to see their own load can be given a portal view of that truck and nothing else. Terminal managers use the same view to see which doors are backed up.

A trailer pool is a carrier's second fleet, and it is usually the one nobody can see. High Point GPS installs powered or solar asset trackers on every trailer, and the High Point GPS platform shows each one at the terminal, at a customer's dock, on a drop lot or on the road behind a tractor. The tractor's GPS tracking device pairs with the trailer it is pulling, and the trip record shows which trailer moved which load. When a dispatcher needs an empty in the Montreal yard, the map shows the three that are there rather than the five the spreadsheet claimed.

Dwell reports by trailer show which units have sat at a customer for a week and should be billed or retrieved, and which have been at a drop lot long enough to be a theft risk. A geofence rule raises an alert when a trailer leaves a lot outside working hours or without a fleet tractor attached. Reefer trailers add temperature and reefer status to the same view, and a carrier that mixes dry van and reefer runs both from one database. High Point GPS installs the trailer units and sets the pairing rules.

IFTA reporting from paper logs takes days each quarter and is wrong more often than anyone admits. The GPS tracking device records every mile in every jurisdiction, and the platform's IFTA report lists distance by state and province per truck for the period. Fuel-card integration matches each purchase to the truck, the driver and the location, and the fuel-tax report is assembled from the two rather than reconstructed from a shoebox. High Point GPS sets up the report and the fuel-card feed, and the same trip history supports IRP mileage and the weight-distance taxes some states levy.

Electronic DVIR in the driver app records the pre-trip and post-trip walk-around, routes a defect to the shop and keeps the inspection on file for the period the regulation requires. Engine fault codes reach maintenance as the tractor logs them, and reminders keyed to engine hours and mileage schedule service between loads. Driver scoring reports speeding, hard braking and following distance by driver, and AI dash cams capture the event with road and cab video. A carrier that shows an insurer a year of scored driving and event footage is negotiating from a stronger position than one that shows a loss run.