In the 90’s when the public started to use GPS devices they were very expensive and only the wealthiest of people could afford to even use them. Companies that wanted to track vehicles would use GPS tracking systems and they called this fleet tracking. At the beginning of fleet tracking to be able to correctly track a fleet, every moving vehicle needs to be enabled with an expensive GPS tracking unit.

Usually, the companies that would implement this system would be stuck with a high monthly fee to make use of satellites for GPS tracking. While this was beneficial in the early days the systems were hard to implement, expensive and hard to use.

Although it was a new technology this didn’t become popular until it was further developed and more simplified.

Today we are further along in technology. The modern fleet GPS tracking platforms use telematics data for fleet management, letting them run operations more proficiently. Fleet Tracking is most popular in the trucking industry giving individual reports on driver behavior overall vehicle performance and route data and even gas being used.

Today Fleet tracking makes it easier to run trucking businesses or any kind of shipment business. Today Fleet managers have a selection of GPS tracking technologies that include. Mobile Tracking, Satellite tracking, and passive tracking.

Mobile tracking taps into cellular networks to provide GPS data in real-time through smart devices. While satellite data is perfect for outside cellular coverage such as overseas or even out of state.

Lastly, passive tracking often is used with satellite or cellular coverage that offers frequent location updates rather than live GPS monitoring.