GPS Tracking Tips, Guides & Industry News

Take-home trucks create a taxable fringe benefit. Here are the three IRS methods for valuing personal use in 2026, worked through one service truck, and why your policy matters more than the formula.

Big fleets replace vans on a calendar. Small service fleets can't. Here are the three signals that tell you when a work van has become the expensive van.

Small fleets don't need a safety manager to coach drivers. Let an AI dash cam nudge drivers in the cab, then spend 15 minutes a week on one scorecard, one driver, one clip and one conversation.

Most company vehicle policy templates are written for an office with two pool cars. A service fleet's vans go home with the techs, which is where every hard question lives. Four clauses do the real work, plus the IRS qualified nonpersonal use vehicle rule most owners have never written down, and the full copy-paste policy text.

The $32,000 SUV cap that dominates every Section 179 article probably does not apply to your work truck. What service fleets can actually deduct in 2026, and the year-end deadline that is not the purchase date.

A stolen work truck is a rolling toolbox and a week of jobs gone. Here's the first-hour GPS recovery playbook for service fleets—and how to set it up before you need it.

Windshield time is one of the biggest hidden costs in a small service fleet. Here's how to cut drive time with GPS tracking—no routing software required.

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.

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.