GPS Tracking Tips, Guides & Industry News

You can't ride along in every truck. Here's how GPS speed alerts show who's speeding, where, and how often — and how to coach it out without turning the shop adversarial.

Lytx publishes no pricing — no pricing page, quote-only sales. Here's why, what you're actually buying, and the published numbers to compare any quote against.

You can track any vehicle you own — but a 1099 sub driving their own truck is a different question, and getting it wrong can threaten their contractor status. The ownership rule, the classification risk, and the three ways to do it legally.

Diesel is up $1.04 a gallon in a year, idling burns $3.84 an hour per truck, and every 5 mph over 50 costs an extra 32 cents a gallon. Fifteen sourced fuel numbers — EIA, Argonne, DOE, ATRI — with the math worked out for a small service fleet.

We tried to find out what fleet GPS tracking costs from Samsara, Motive, Verizon Connect, and Geotab. All four refuse to publish a price. Here's the number none of them will give you — $8.95 per vehicle per month, no contract, hardware free.

Your P&L says the fleet made money — but not which jobs did. Here's how GPS time data lets small service fleets cost each job and reprice the ones losing margin.

Idling, after-hours use, fuel-card fraud, bad routing, and aggressive driving quietly drain a small fleet's fuel budget. Here's how GPS tracking makes each leak visible and stoppable.

Geotab doesn't sell direct or list a price — you buy through a reseller at an upfront hardware cost plus a tiered monthly plan. Here's what that means for a small fleet in 2026, and how transparent, published pricing compares.

The best hardwired GPS tracker for a small fleet isn't about the wire — it's reporting speed, hardware cost at scale, and platform depth. Here's how fleet-grade hardwired tracking compares to consumer options like the Optimus GB100M in 2026.