A vehicle tracker stops at the door
Hardware in the vehicle tells you where the truck is parked. It cannot tell you who walked into the building, how long they stayed, or what they did there.
Should you track the vehicle or the person?
The short answer
Track the person if the work happens outside the vehicle. A tracker in the van shows one dot for the truck. An app on each phone shows every worker, so when a crew arrives in one van and splits across a site, you still see each of them.
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In more detail
A phone follows the worker
Hellotracks runs on the phones your team already carries. Each person shows up on the live map on their own, with arrivals, time on site and a record of the visit.
The map updates in the same second
The location is a live stream, not a dot that refreshes every five or ten minutes. That is the difference between deciding who to send and guessing.
You can run both
If you already have GPS in the vehicles, keep it. Several Hellotracks customers use vehicle telematics for the fleet and Hellotracks for the people, the jobs and the proof of work.
To be honest
When a vehicle tracker is the better choice
If what you need is engine data, fuel use, harsh braking or a record of vehicles no one carries a phone in, you need hardware in the vehicle. Hellotracks does not read engine data.
People also ask
Can Hellotracks track vehicles too?
Yes, through the phone of the person driving. Set the vehicle type so routes and travel times fit a car, a van or a truck.
What happens when a crew shares one van?
Every person with the app shows up separately. When they split up on site, you see where each one is.
Do we need to buy any devices?
No. Hellotracks runs on Android and iPhone. There is nothing to install in a vehicle.
Keep reading
See also: GPS tracking without hardware · Live location
See it with your own team.
Put two or three people on it today. You will know more from one week of your own data than from any page.
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