GPS Fleet Tracking for Roofing & Siding Contractors

The office of a roofing contractor starts the day with the same question a customer will ask an hour later: where is the crew? With every truck on a live map in MyGeotab, the answer is on screen. Each job site is drawn as a geofence, and the platform records when a truck arrived, when it left and how long the stop lasted. The dispatcher sees a crew that has not left the yard yet, a truck stopped at a coffee shop for forty minutes, and a dump trailer still sitting at a job that finished yesterday. Trailers carry their own tracker; a trailer left behind is a trailer the office knows about, not one discovered when the next crew needs it.

The same map serves the customer. A homeowner who was told the crew would be there at 8:00 calls at 8:20. The office sees the truck three blocks away and says so, rather than promising to call back. When a customer later claims the crew arrived late every day of a week-long job, the arrival records for each day are in the trip history, with times to the minute. High Point GPS sets up the job-site geofences from the contractor's schedule, and a new address can be added in the time it takes to type it.

A roofing estimate assumes a number of crew hours per square. The only way to know whether that number held is to know how long the crew was actually on the roof. Timesheets give a version of that; the geofence record gives the one that cannot be rounded. For each job, MyGeotab reports the trucks that visited, the hours between arrival and departure each day, and the total across the job. The estimator compares that against the bid and learns which roof types, which pitches and which crews are running over. Over a season, the estimates get better because they are built on recorded hours instead of remembered ones.

Weather days are the hardest hours to cost. The crew drove forty minutes to the site, the rain started, and they sat in the truck until the foreman called it. The trip record shows the drive out, the two hours parked at the site and the drive back. That is the record payroll uses, and it is the record that ends the Friday argument between a crew lead who says they waited three hours and a foreman who says one. Driver ID through an NFC key fob ties each trip to the person driving, which matters when trucks change hands between crews mid-week.

A dump trailer full of tear-off, a compressor, a nail gun set and a set of ladders left on a job site overnight are the easiest things in a contractor's business to steal. A battery tracker on each trailer reports its position several times a day and wakes up the moment it moves. High Point GPS configures an alert for any trailer that moves outside working hours or leaves a job-site geofence while no crew truck is nearby. The office gets a text with the trailer's position and direction, and the police get a live location instead of a description. Trailers that are recovered the same night are trailers that do not get replaced through insurance.

Smaller equipment goes on Bluetooth asset tags. The tags are read by the GO device in any of the contractor's trucks, and the platform knows which compressor was last seen with which truck at which site. When a crew lead reports a missing lift, the last-seen record shows it was at the Tuesday job and never left with the truck. The inventory of what went to a site and what came back is kept without anyone counting, and an insurance claim for stolen equipment comes with a location history the insurer accepts.

A pickup pulling a dump trailer with three tons of tear-off stops differently, corners differently and needs more room than the same truck empty. Driver scoring in MyGeotab records hard braking, fast cornering and speeding on each trip, and High Point GPS sets the thresholds for a fleet that tows. An IOX-AUXM input can read the trailer-brake controller or the trailer-lights circuit, so the platform knows when a trailer is attached and applies the tighter rules only then. The foreman's weekly review starts from specific events on specific trips rather than a general talk about driving carefully.

AI dash cams give that review a picture. A road-facing camera records the following distance and the traffic ahead; a driver-facing camera flags phone use and fatigue on long drives to out-of-town jobs. When a loaded trailer is rear-ended at a light, or a truck is blamed for a collision on a highway ramp, the footage and the speed record arrive together, and the insurer's question is answered in an afternoon. Maintenance reminders on engine hours and mileage keep brakes and tires on trucks that tow daily from being the reason a job runs late.