GPS Fleet Tracking for Mining, Quarries & Aggregates

A haul cycle is the unit of production in a pit: the truck loads at the face, hauls to the crusher or the stockpile, dumps and returns. With a geofence around each of those points, the platform counts the cycles as the trucks make them, with the time at the face, the haul time, the time at the crusher and the return for each one. The site manager sees the shift's production on the map while it is happening, and the count at the end of the day is a record rather than a tally.

The same cycle records show where the time goes. A loader waiting for trucks, trucks queued at the crusher, a haul road that has slowed since the last grading. High Point GPS builds the cycle reports to the site's own layout and updates the geofences as the face moves, so the record keeps counting as the pit develops.

Every site has a speed limit on the haul road and a lower one near the crusher and the scale, and every site has an exclusion zone around the blast pattern and the highwall. The platform enforces them as geofence rules: a machine or a vehicle that exceeds a zone's limit or enters an exclusion zone triggers an alert to the supervisor and an event in the operator's score, with the time and the position in the record. The safety report a regulator or an inspector asks for is a report the platform already produces, and the record of what the site did about each event is beside it.

Visiting highway trucks are the hardest to control on site, because their drivers do not know the rules. A plug-in device or a temporary tag brings a visiting truck onto the map for the duration of its visit, with the same speed and exclusion rules applied, and the site office sees it at the scale and on the haul road like its own machines.

A loader that runs two shifts adds engine hours faster than any calendar can track, and a haul truck that queues at the crusher idles through a third of its shift. The GO device reads engine hours from each machine, and on machines that report through the CAN bus, fault codes, fluid temperatures and pressures. Maintenance reminders run on the hours that accumulate, and a fault code reaches the shop as the machine logs it, so a hydraulic or cooling warning at the face is a repair planned for the next break rather than a machine down at the start of a shift.

Idling reports per machine and per zone show where the diesel goes when nothing is moving: the trucks in the crusher queue, the loader waiting for trucks, the water truck running between passes. Fuel-card and bulk-tank integration matches the fuel dispensed to the machine that burned it, and the fuel cost per tonne comes out of the same record as the cycle count.

Pre-shift inspection of mobile equipment is a regulatory requirement in every mining jurisdiction, and the paper form is the one most likely to be missing when the inspector asks. Electronic inspections in the Geotab Drive app walk the operator through the machine-specific checklist, time-stamp each item and route a defect to the shop before the machine goes to work. The records are kept for as long as the regulator requires and produced in seconds.

The highway trucks that carry the product carry their own compliance. The drivers and trucks that fall under the ELD mandate log hours of service in the same app, IFTA distance by jurisdiction is reported from the same trip records for the trucks that cross state or provincial lines, and the delivery ticket's arrival at the customer's site is a geofence record like every other. One MyGeotab database holds the pit and the highway fleet, and the site office sees both.