Tracking News Archive

Mileage claims and expense submission can be very time consuming, especially to employees that travel around a lot for work. However, the days where employees needed to write down their start and end mileage every time they made a work journey is over with the introduction of ‘RoadTrip’, (more…)

The catastrophic accident on the M5 in early November 2011 has resulted in calls for the government to rethink its plans to increase the motorway speed limit to 80 miles per hour. Seven people died in the accident, as many as 35 vehicles are thought to have been involved and 51 people were injured. (more…)

Many people may not realise it but some of the satellites for Europe’s own version of GPS, Galileo, have been launched. By the end of 2012, four of the satellites used to run the system would have been launched. It will take an additional 3 years to complete the launch of all satellites involved in the global navigational system. (more…)

‘Webfleet Mobile’ has recently been launched by the vehicle tracking provider TomTom. Webfleet is for use as an application for ‘Smartphones’ and allows fleet managers to have updates on their mobile regarding their fleet’s movements. (more…)

Insurance company Direct Line have formed a partnership with Tracker, the vehicle tracking solution provider, to monitor driver’s, in particular young drivers, behaviour for a year. (more…)

Recent research from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles UK states that more than 25% of van drivers do not consider how much fuel they are consuming on a daily basis. (more…)

Navman Wireless has recently launched its new tracking systems, ‘Essential Fleet+’ and ‘Complete’, with the aim of providing as much flexibility as part of its vehicle tracking solutions as possible. (more…)

Skyguard, an emergency response specialist company, have designed a system that they call a ‘personal emergency service’, with which travellers can summon assistance at the push of a button in 34 different countries across Europe, in addition to South Africa and Russia. (more…)

A leading vehicle tracker provider has found that more and more of their customers are requesting information on their employee’s ‘driving behaviour’. This is mainly driven by the extremely high price of fuel, because businesses need to significantly reduce the amount they spend on fuel. (more…)

Trafford Housing Association is responsible for approximately 9000 homes in the Trafford area. They realised that improvements needed to be made to the efficiency of their fleet of 80 housing maintenance vehicles so that they could save money and provide a better service to their tenants. (more…)