GPS Fleet Tracking for Utilities & Line Crews

When a storm takes down a feeder, the storm desk needs to know where every crew is, which trucks are closest to each outage and how long each one has been on scene. With every truck on the live map and the outage locations drawn as geofences, that picture is on the wall instead of in someone's head. Crews are dispatched to the nearest outage on their way rather than the next one on the list, the arrival at each site is recorded as the truck enters the geofence, and the restoration timeline the regulator will ask for is being written as the night goes on.

Mutual-aid crews from another utility are added to the map when they check in, tracked for the duration of the event and removed when they leave, so the storm desk sees them like its own trucks. High Point GPS connects the live position to the utility's outage-management system through the API, so the OMS and the map agree on which crew is where.

An aerial device is the most regulated piece of equipment on the truck. Annual inspections, dielectric testing and the incident investigation after a contact all depend on knowing how much the device has been used. An IOX-AUXM module on the GO device reads the aerial device's engagement, the outriggers and the PTO, so each stop in the trip record carries how long the boom was in use and whether the outriggers were deployed before it went up. The inspection schedule runs on those hours, and the incident file has the sequence of events from the truck's own circuits.

The same inputs serve the day-to-day. A truck that shows PTO time at a job site shows the crew was working; a truck that sat with the engine idling and the PTO off for two hours is a question for the supervisor. Job costing per work order draws on the same record.

The pre-trip inspection of a bucket truck covers the truck and the aerial device, and on paper it is the form most likely to be filled in from memory in the cab. Electronic DVIR in the Geotab Drive app walks the operator through both checklists, time-stamps each item and routes a defect to the garage before the truck leaves the yard. High Point GPS builds the checklist to match the utility's own procedure and the regulator's expectations.

Utility trucks idle. A bucket truck may run all day at a job site and add thirty kilometres to its odometer, and mileage-based maintenance misses that. Engine-hours and PTO-hours reminders schedule service on the hours the truck actually works, and engine fault codes reach the garage as they are logged, so the truck is repaired on a planned day rather than failing during a storm.

A utility's safety department answers to a regulator, an insurer and, often, a union. Driver-behaviour scoring per operator, speeding and harsh-driving events, dash-cam footage retrieved by event and the coaching record for each one give the department a file it can produce on request. AI dash cams with driver-facing detection matter most on the long drives home after a storm shift. The utility sets the retention and the access rules, and the platform enforces them.

Line trucks are one part of a utility fleet that also includes meter readers, inspectors, engineers and administrative vehicles. All of it runs on the same MyGeotab database, with each department seeing its own vehicles and the fleet manager seeing everything. The open API feeds the utility's work-order, asset and fuel systems, and High Point GPS builds custom add-ins when a utility wants a view of its own, such as a storm board showing crews by feeder.