# Oil, Gas & Energy

GPS tracking for oilfield and energy fleets that keeps crew trucks, service rigs and water haulers visible on lease roads with no coverage, enforces journey management and site speed limits, and produces the hours, ticket and safety records the operator's contract demands.

Source: https://www.highpointgps.com/industries/oil-gas-energy
Last updated: 2026-09-21

An oilfield or energy fleet works where the map runs out: lease roads with no signage, sites with their own speed limits and check-in rules, and crew trucks that drive three hours each way before the shift starts. GPS tracking for oil and gas fleets puts crew trucks, service rigs, vacuum and water haulers, and pickups on one live map, with the Geotab GO device storing every trip where there is no cell coverage and uploading it the moment coverage returns. Geofences around each lease, site and camp record check-in and check-out for journey management, and site-specific speed limits are enforced as rules that alert the supervisor and score the driver. PTO and pump inputs on the haulers record load and unload time for the field ticket, so the ticket matches what the truck did. Hours of service through the ELD, with the oilfield exemptions that apply set up correctly, electronic inspections, and the driver-behaviour and dash-cam records that operators audit before awarding the next contract are held in the same MyGeotab database. Engine-hours maintenance keeps the trucks that idle through a twelve-hour shift on the road, and the platform's open API feeds the company's ticketing, safety and journey-management systems.

## Common problems

- Crew trucks and haulers out of contact for hours on lease roads, with journey management done by phone call
- Site and lease-road speed limits that are posted but never enforced until an operator's safety audit
- Field tickets that disagree with the truck's actual load and unload times, and get disputed at invoicing
- Hours-of-service logs on paper for drivers who alternate between exempt and regulated work
- Trucks that idle through twelve-hour shifts and get maintained on mileage that understates the wear
- Operator contracts that require driver-behaviour, inspection and camera records the company cannot produce

## Highlights

- Live location of crew trucks, service rigs, haulers and pickups on one map, with trips stored offline and uploaded when coverage returns
- Lease, site and camp geofences that record check-in and check-out for journey management
- Site-specific speed limits enforced as rules, with alerts to the supervisor and events in the driver's score
- PTO and pump engagement read through the GO device's auxiliary inputs, so each stop carries load and unload time for the field ticket
- ELD hours of service in the Geotab Drive app, with the oilfield exemptions that apply configured for the drivers who use them
- Electronic DVIR with the truck- and rig-specific checklist, routed to the shop the same shift
- AI dash cams with driver-facing fatigue and distraction detection for the long commutes and the night shifts
- Engine-hours and PTO-hours maintenance, with fault codes from the engine sent to the shop as they appear

## Journey Management Without the Phone Calls

Most energy companies run journey management on a spreadsheet and a check-in call: the driver phones the office at the gate and again at the site, and someone marks the time. With a geofence around each lease, site and camp, the platform records the arrival and departure automatically, and a truck that has not arrived by its expected time is flagged before anyone has to notice. The dispatcher sees every truck on the live map, and where the map went dark for want of coverage, the GO device stored the trip and uploaded it when the truck came back into range, so the record of the journey is complete.

High Point GPS connects that record to the journey-management and safety systems the operator or the company already uses, so the check-in is logged once and the exception report goes where the safety coordinator expects it. Companies that work for several operators run each one's rules on the same database.

![Timeline of one crew truck's day from the camp geofence to the lease and back, with the trip stored where coverage ended, a lease-road speed event, the water hauler's field ticket, the hours-of-service exemption and the safety file](https://www.highpointgps.com/images/guides/oil-gas-energy.webp)

*Geofences around the camp and the lease record check-in and check-out for journey management, the trip is stored where coverage ends, and the speed limit on the lease road is enforced as a rule.*

## Speed on the Lease Road

A lease road has a posted limit, a site has a lower one, and an operator's safety audit asks how the company enforces both. The platform enforces them as rules: a geofence around the site carries its own speed limit, and a truck that exceeds it triggers an alert to the supervisor and an event in the driver's score. Speeding on the highway commute is scored the same way against the posted limit from the map. The report the operator asks for is a report the platform already produces, per driver and per site, and the coaching record behind it shows what the company did about each event.

AI dash cams complete the safety file. The road-facing camera records what happened in front of the truck; the driver-facing camera with fatigue and distraction detection matters most on the three-hour commute at the end of a twelve-hour shift, which is where energy fleets have their worst accidents. Events are retrieved by trip, and the retention and access rules are set by the company.

## Field Tickets That Match the Truck

A water hauler's ticket says it loaded at the source, delivered to the lease and unloaded 30 cubic metres. The platform's record shows the truck inside the source geofence from 6:40 to 7:05 with the PTO engaged for 18 minutes, the drive to the lease, and 22 minutes of pump time inside the lease geofence. When the ticket and the record agree, the invoice goes through; when they do not, the company finds out before the operator does. PTO and pump engagement are read from the truck's own circuits through an IOX-AUXM module on the GO device, so the times are facts from the vehicle rather than entries on a form.

The same records serve the company's own costing. Time at the source, time on the road, time at the lease and time waiting are separated per truck and per day, which shows where a hauling contract is making money and where it is not.

## Hours of Service, Inspections and Maintenance

Oilfield drivers move between exempt and regulated work in a way few other fleets do, and the hours-of-service rules in both Canada and the United States have oilfield-specific provisions for it. The Geotab Drive app supports those provisions, so the driver's log reflects the exemption that applied on each day, and High Point GPS sets the rule sets up for the drivers and trucks they cover. Electronic DVIR uses a truck- or rig-specific checklist, and a defect reaches the shop the same shift rather than at the end of the hitch.

Maintenance runs on engine hours and PTO hours, because a truck that idles through a shift to run its pump or heat its cab wears in ways its odometer does not show. Engine fault codes reach the shop as they are logged, and the shop schedules the repair for the truck's days off rather than discovering the problem on a lease road at two in the morning.

## FAQ

### Does it work where there is no cell coverage?

Yes. The GO device stores every trip and event while it is out of coverage and uploads them when it returns, so the journey record is complete. Live position is as current as the last upload; companies that need real-time position on remote leases can add satellite-connected devices for those trucks.

### Can it enforce site-specific speed limits?

Yes. A geofence around each site or lease carries its own speed limit, and a truck that exceeds it triggers an alert to the supervisor and an event in the driver's score. Highway speeding is scored against the posted limit from the map.

### How does it support journey management?

Geofences around leases, sites and camps record check-in and check-out automatically, and a truck that has not arrived by its expected time is flagged. High Point GPS connects the record to the journey-management or safety system the operator requires.

### Does it handle the oilfield hours-of-service exemptions?

Yes. The Geotab Drive app supports the oilfield-specific provisions in both Canadian and US hours-of-service rules, and High Point GPS configures the rule sets for the drivers and trucks they cover, so the log reflects the exemption that applied each day.

### Can it produce the safety records an operator audits?

Yes. Driver scores, speeding and site-limit events, dash-cam events and their resolution, inspections and maintenance records are all in one database and reported per driver, per truck and per site in the format the operator asks for.