GPS Fleet Tracking in British Columbia

British Columbia IFTA runs through eTaxBC, the province's online tax service, under the Ministry of Finance. The fee structure catches new carriers out: a first application costs $300, made up of a $200 registration fee and the $100 annual licence, and each renewal after that is the $100 licence alone.

BC also requires a decal on each side of the cab exterior, with the licence or a photocopy of it kept inside the cab. You file quarterly returns online through the same portal, covering distance travelled and fuel purchased in every jurisdiction your decalled vehicles ran in.

Harsh-braking and speeding thresholds tuned for prairie highways produce noise on a mountain route. A descent involves sustained braking, and posted limits change every few kilometres. Read the data with the terrain in mind, or a driver gets a report saying they braked hard forty times coming down a grade where braking was the correct thing to do.

Routing and arrival times work the same way. A schedule built on distance alone will be wrong on a route with a 1,200-metre summit or a ferry sailing in it. Trip history fixes that, because you plan on what your vehicles did on that road before.