GPS Fleet Tracking for Traffic Control & Pavement Marking

A lane closure permit says the work zone may be set at 9:00 p.m. and must be clear by 5:00 a.m. The authority's inspector drives through at 5:20 and finds a cone. The contractor's answer used to be a foreman's word. With a geofence drawn around the closure, the GPS tracking device in each truck records the arrival of the crash truck at 8:52, the arrow board truck at 8:55 and the crew van at 9:01. It records the last truck leaving at 4:48. The report lists every vehicle, in and out, and the trip replay shows the pick-up order. High Point GPS sets the geofences from the permit list, or the dispatcher draws one when the night's work is assigned.

That same record answers the harder questions. When a motorist claims they hit a barrel at 4:30 in a zone that should have been open, the replay shows whether the crew was still working and where the crash truck sat. When a project bills by the shift and the authority asks whether a second crash truck was really on site, the geofence shows the truck inside the zone for six hours. Contracts with liquidated damages for late reopening are settled on the departure time of the last truck rather than on memory. The office exports the closure report by night, by contract or by month and attaches it to the invoice.

A line-painting truck is paid for the line it puts down, and the invoice says how many kilometres. An IOX-AUXM module on the GPS tracking device reads the paint pump, the bead dispenser and the carriage lift as on or off, and each state change is tied to a position on the road. The High Point GPS platform then shows the pass on the map: paint on at kilometre 12.4 of the highway, off at 27.9, on again after the interchange. Distance with the pump running is the kilometres painted. A truck with the carriage down and the pump off is deadheading to the next section, and the report says so.

The office builds the invoice from the pass report rather than from a tally sheet, and the authority's inspector can be shown the same map when a quantity is questioned. The shop uses the same inputs for maintenance: pump hours and compressor hours schedule seals and filters, and engine fault codes reach the shop as they are logged, which matters for a truck that runs one season and sits the next. Fuel-card integration matches fills to the truck and compares consumption with pump hours, so a paint truck burning more than its passes explain gets a look before the season ends.

Traffic control fleets run at night, in several places at once, with crews that change composition by the shift. The live map shows the dispatcher where each crash truck, arrow board truck and crew vehicle is, and whether the attenuator truck is in position before the flaggers step out. Drivers log in with an NFC card through IOX-NFCREADERA, so a shared truck's trip is attributed to the person who drove it. The driver app keeps hours of service for the drivers who need it and the electronic DVIR for every truck, including the attenuator check on the crash truck, before it leaves the yard for the night.

The equipment is the other headache. Arrow boards, portable message signs, attenuators and barricade sets stay on a site for days, and a yard manager rarely knows which site holds which. A Bluetooth tag on each piece is read by any company truck that passes within range, and the High Point GPS platform shows the last-seen location and time. When a job closes and a message sign is missing, the last-seen record names the site and the truck that saw it. Battery-powered trackers on the higher-value boards report on their own, and a board that moves outside its site geofence at 3:00 a.m. raises an alert.

No fleet works closer to moving cars than a traffic control crew. A crash truck's job is to be hit, and a paint truck spends its shift at walking pace with traffic passing on one side. AI dash cams facing the road record intrusions into the work zone, drivers who cut the taper and the impact when it comes; the driver-facing camera records the moments before a backing incident during a pick-up. Clips are saved by event and retrieved by trip, and the office has the video and the position record before the insurer or the authority asks. The same clips become the material for the next tailgate safety meeting.

Driver scoring for these fleets is set for how the work is done. Speeding thresholds are tightened inside work-zone geofences, where the crew's own trucks are the traffic, and harsh braking and cornering are weighted for trucks carrying an attenuator or a paint load. Idling is reported separately inside a closure, where a crash truck idles by design, and on the road, where it does not. High Point GPS builds the rules with the safety manager, installs rugged GPS tracking devices where the cab gets abuse, and sets the reports up so a supervisor coaches from a specific night on a specific highway.