Vehicle Tracking

[RegMolehusband]

Has anybody any experience of vehicle tracking products? I don't mean tracker for stolen vehicles but those fitted to mostly to commercial vehicles giving live position data using GPS and GSM (I think) and showing that position on a website.

A friend has been looking for a supplier for his five trucks but there's hundreds of them out there!! A minefield by the looks of it. He had his fingers burnt with one but ripped them out when the contract ended.

This company here vehicle tracking carries lots of adverts for I assume the top suppliers and offers advice, but I suppose it will cost.

Any good experience out there?

[Baby Huey]

I've just had a Navman one fitted to my company car. Must have been cheap as my company are a bunch of tightarses.

[RegMolehusband]

It can't be very nice having a tracking system fitted to your company car!

[davefowler1987]

Most of the SatNav ranges offer this now - may be worth posting in the Sat Nav systems forum aswell on this - see if any offer low bridge information as well - kill 2 birds with one stone and all that

[JamesNotJim]

http://www.norflex.co.uk/vehiclemonitoring/

Company I work for use these guys on our 200+ car/van fleet.

[coolcatmaz]

We've had trackers fitted to our company lorries

http://www.gps-buddy.com/site/EN/GPS-Buddy-index.h...

[Baby Huey]

RegMolehusband said:

It can't be very nice having a tracking system fitted to your company car!

No it isn't.

[esselte]

Baby Huey said:

RegMolehusband said:

It can't be very nice having a tracking system fitted to your company car!

No it isn't.

Do you have private use of the vehicle? Do they track you during this period?

[RegMolehusband]

Thanks for the links above guys. I've found a couple more good looking ones through gps-vehicle-tracking.org.uk too.

[mat13]

does a bit of lead in the bonnet still stop these things?

[RegMolehusband]

You;d need lead sheet which gets a trifle heavy I think they use a GPS receiver which can be very small so i suppose if that could be located them a bit of tin foil or something over the top might not help - but that could be an urban myth.

[jamoor]

www.locatea.net
It's free

[Amy-Lea]

My friend has a company:

http://www.fleetasset.co.uk

[Pigeon]

RegMolehusband said:

You;d need lead sheet which gets a trifle heavy I think they use a GPS receiver which can be very small so i suppose if that could be located them a bit of tin foil or something over the top might not help - but that could be an urban myth.

GPS uses a very sensitive receiver to pick up very faint signals. If you generate a local signal on the same frequency then you can overload the front end of the receiver and stop it working. All it takes is a Gunn diode and a suitable resonant cavity.

[jamoor]

RegMolehusband said:

You;d need lead sheet which gets a trifle heavy I think they use a GPS receiver which can be very small so i suppose if that could be located them a bit of tin foil or something over the top might not help - but that could be an urban myth.

Even so, someone will become suspicious once there is no signal from the unit. Dumbest thing ever to do IMO.