Case Studies

The following GPS Case Studies are actual past situations reported to us by our clients. Personal and company names have been removed or altered for privacy reasons.

Business Case Studies

Business Case Study 1

A Trackem® client has a discrepancy about where his employees were at a specific time. Security of the site said he noticed them leaving at 11pm with the merchandise that was stolen from the site where Trackem® client was working.

Solution

Owner verified when his employees left the site (9pm) from Trackem® and forwarded the reports to the company accusing them. Employees left two hours earlier, turns out the contracting company tried to set them up. Client has also eliminated discrepancies between them and their clients.

Client has also eliminated TIME THEFT each month

$25/hr x 2hr/day x 20 days/month x 5 employees = $5000/month

Administration gains “paycheck” and ‘site management’ data from simple reports. Employees no longer hand in manual logs and have to start from company yard. Gained Employee accountability.

Business Case Study 2

Transportation Company was going to be charged $400 dollars for allegedly not showing up to a drop site in order to meet a crane company.

Solution

Transportation company printed off their Trackem® GPS reports that showed they were on-site for four (4) hours. They then asked the crane company to provide the same sort of information. Unfortunately they could not. Since the crane company could not provide this they ended up paying the Transportation company the $400. A week later the crane company became a Trackem® client.

Business Case Study 3

While using Trackem®'s in-vehicle GPS solution one of our customers broke down in Texas. The driver knew which highway he was on but wasn’t sure where. He did not have any mile marker references.

Solution

The driver called his dispatcher who looked at their Trackem® account and saw his GPS location. The dispatcher was able to call a mobile mechanic who was on-site in 20 minutes and had the truck up and running in 45. “Without this system there is no way we could have had him up and running in 45 minutes”, said the dispatcher.

Business Case Study 4

The company had serious issues with TIME THEFT as the employees would fill out manual time sheets and fudge the numbers.

Solution

The first week they had Trackem® they uncovered that 6 employees divided between 3 trucks would go sit in a park for 1 to 2 hours everyday. The company estimates they will save $52,000 this year by reducing the time theft from these six (6) employees alone. They uncover and save more from the other 15 mobile workers.

Business Case Study 5

Tractor was stolen one night and employee went to go and plow the parking lot but it wasn’t there.

Solution

The owner of the company viewed his Trackem® account. Visibly saw the tractor 2 hours away. He then printed off the reports and started driving to the location of where his tractor was. He called the police who had met him at the location of the tractor; they went in and recovered his tractor as well as three (3) other ones that were reported stolen in the last two days. The owner then called his insurance company the next day; they gave him a 15% discount for having an in-vehicle GPS device installed in his tractor.

Business Case Study 6

This company had issues with employees misusing the company vehicles. The owner of the company was driving to his cottage one weekend. He ended up stopping for gas and pulled up beside one of his vehicles. The truck was LOADED with furniture. It was also not one of his employees driving this vehicle.

Solution

Employees still take their vehicles home so they can go straight to the site in the morning and not have to meet at the yard. They are also on call 24/7 so they need to have them to run to a site. They are not supposed to use the vehicle for personal use after hours or on weekends. Now the company can manage their fleet without having them present at the yard and know if they are being misused. The results? Thousands of dollars saved on maintenance, wear and tear and reduced KM on their leased vehicles.

Family Case Studies

Family Case Study 1

A client’s father who has Alzheimer’s goes for daily walks but sometimes he does not remember how to get home. He will just stand on the street corner until somebody approaches him.

Solution

The son and daughter can now be reassured that when he does go for a walk they know where he is by his GPS location, and if he does get confused they will be able to locate him and send somebody to assist the gentleman.

Family Case Study 2

Eight (8) year old daughter travels to and from school by herself on the school bus. The parents would like to have the security that she gets to where she has to go safely.

Solution

With Trackem®, Mom and Dad can be at work or at home and see that she has arrived at school or home from school safely. Their daughter also enjoys Trackem® because not only does she have a cell phone but, she has the reassurance that mom and dad can always find her and get to her if she needs them to.

Family Case Study 3

Client has a problem of always misplacing his phone between the car, house and his office. Twice he has purchased new phones and subsequently found the old phone weeks later.

Solution

Now if he misplaces it he can check his account and locate his phone using Trackem's cell phone GPS solution. He can see where it was last left or where it is now.

Family Case Study 4

With the insurance rates continuing to climb the way they are we needed something to help us out in any way we can.

Solution

They installed Trackem's in-vehicle GPS modem in both their family vehicles. They then called their insurance company who gave them a discount for having a GPS device that was permanently fixed in their vehicle. With the discount they received even after the cost of the Trackem® service they were saving close to $1000 in one (1) year.