GPS Fleet Tracking for Moving & Storage

A moving customer has taken the day off, the building has booked the elevator for two hours and the truck is somewhere between the last job and this one. With every truck on a live map, the office answers the call with a position and an estimate rather than a promise to call back. Geofences at the origin and destination addresses record arrival and departure for each job, so the dispatcher sees the previous job run long before the next customer notices. Arrival windows are set against real traffic and real drive times from the trip history, not against the crew's optimism.

The same records drive the day's dispatch. A crew that finishes a small move early is visible and can take an add-on job nearby; a crew stuck at a fourth-floor walk-up shows a longer time on site, and the office reschedules the afternoon before the phone starts ringing. High Point GPS connects those arrival and departure records to the company's moving software through the open API; the job file carries the times without anyone typing them. For a customer who wants to know where the truck is, the office can send a link or read the estimate from the map, and the estimate is drawn from the vehicle rather than from the crew's phone.

A damage claim on a household move comes down to two questions: how was the load handled, and how was it driven. The trip record answers the second. The GO device's accelerometer records hard braking, sharp cornering and impacts along the route, and a claim that the truck was driven roughly is confirmed or refuted by the data. A road-facing dash cam adds the video, retrieved by trip and by event, and a driver-facing camera covers the crew's conduct in the cab. Time on site at origin and destination shows whether the crew rushed the load or had the hours the estimate allowed.

Delay claims are simpler still. The record shows when the truck left the previous job, the route it took and when it arrived. When a customer claims the truck was three hours late, the office sees a two-hour delay at the previous customer's address and can show it. When the crew was late through their own choice of route, the office sees that too and settles the claim with the facts in hand rather than after a dispute. Time on site at each address, the crew on the job through driver ID and the route in between are the whole record, and the office has it the day the claim arrives.

The interstate and cross-border side of a moving company falls under the ELD mandates in both the United States and Canada. The Geotab Drive app on a tablet in the cab provides the hours-of-service record with the ruleset the crew is operating under, and the roadside inspection view a driver hands to an officer. Dispatch sees remaining hours for every long-distance driver before assigning the next leg, and a crew that would have to drive tired to make a window is rescheduled rather than sent. Electronic DVIR inspections cover the tractor and the trailer with time-stamped defects that reach the shop.

IFTA mileage comes from the GO device rather than from trip sheets. Distance is recorded by jurisdiction as the tractor crosses each state or provincial line, and fuel-card integration matches purchases to the unit and the jurisdiction. The quarterly return is a report, and the record behind it survives an audit. For a company that runs a few tractors alongside a local fleet, that alone removes a day of work a quarter. Distance by jurisdiction also feeds any IRP apportioned registration the company holds, from the same trip data, with no second system to reconcile.

A moving company's trailers and storage containers spend their lives dropped at customers' properties, at partner agents' yards and at storage facilities. Powered trackers on the fleet's trailers report position on a schedule when unhitched and continuously when moving, so the trailer left at a customer's driveway for a week shows up on the map and on the dormant-asset report. Bluetooth asset tags on containers, crates and equipment report through any GO device that passes within range, which is how the office finds the container a partner agent swears was returned.

In the yard, the same tags and geofences show what came back and what did not. Utilization reports show which trailers sit idle and which are turned every day, which is the number that decides whether the company buys another one. High Point GPS sets up the trackers and tags to match how the company actually moves its equipment, and builds the reports the operations manager reads on Monday morning. When a trailer or container leaves a yard geofence after hours, the alert names it and the tag or tracker follows it, which is the difference between a theft report and a recovery.