GPS Fleet Tracking for Fuel & Propane Delivery

Delivery fleets plan on degree days and get tested on the outliers. When the temperature drops and the will-call phone starts ringing, the dispatcher needs to see every truck, the stops it has left and the product it has on board, and to know which one can take the run-out call without stranding the rest of its route. With every truck on the live map and its route beside it, that decision takes a glance. The customer gets a real arrival time, and the driver gets the added stop in the app rather than over the radio.

High Point GPS connects the tracking to the delivery-management and degree-day software fuel and propane companies already plan with, so the planned route flows to the truck and the completed stops flow back with their times. The office works in one system, and the record of the day is the same record the delivery ticket, the invoice and the next forecast draw from.

A delivery ticket says the truck delivered 380 litres. The customer says the tank does not look that full. The platform's record shows the truck inside the geofence at that address from 10:12 to 10:31, the PTO engaged for fourteen minutes of that, and the route in and out. That is the record that settles a short-delivery claim, and it is produced without the driver writing anything down. The PTO and pump inputs come from the truck's own circuits through an IOX-AUXM module on the GO device. The pump time is a fact from the vehicle rather than a line on a form.

The same records feed the office's other questions. Which deliveries took longest and why, which routes carried the most stops per hour, how long each truck spent at the bulk plant loading. Companies that pay drivers by the stop or by the hour use the record for both, and companies that bill commercial customers for a minimum delivery use it to show the minimum was met.

A tank truck carrying propane or fuel oil is a placarded hazmat load, and the compliance file is longer than for any other delivery fleet. The trucks and drivers that fall under the ELD mandate log hours of service in the Geotab Drive app, with the device connected to the engine as the mandate requires. The pre-trip and post-trip inspections use a tank-truck checklist that includes hoses, valves, emergency shutoffs and placards, and a defect reaches the shop before the truck leaves the plant. High Point GPS builds the checklist with the company so it matches the one the auditor expects.

Routing restrictions are enforced by geofence. Tunnels, bridges and city zones that prohibit placarded loads are drawn once, and a truck that crosses one triggers an alert and a record. Driver behaviour is scored with a tank truck's physics in mind: a cornering event that would be minor in a van is a rollover risk with a half-full tank, and the score reflects it. AI dash cams add the road-facing view for the incident review and the driver-facing view for distraction and fatigue on the long rural routes.

A delivery truck's mileage understates its wear. The engine idles at every stop to run the pump, the PTO engages and disengages dozens of times a day, and the pump itself has an hour meter that mileage-based maintenance ignores. The GO device reads engine hours and, through the PTO input, PTO hours. MyGeotab then schedules pump service, PTO service and engine intervals on the hours that actually accumulate. Engine fault codes reach the shop as they are logged, which is how a charging fault is fixed at the plant rather than on a rural road in February.

Companies that run bulk transports alongside the bobtails put them on the same platform, with IFTA distance by jurisdiction reported from the same trip records for the trucks that cross state or provincial lines. One MyGeotab database holds the whole fleet, and the reports are built for each part of it.