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Transportation & Logistics

Transportation & Logistics

Track and manage long-haul fleets, optimize routes, reduce fuel costs, and ensure on-time delivery across your logistics network.

Overview

Transportation and logistics fleets are run on three numbers that change daily: cost per kilometre, on-time delivery rate, and fuel cost as a share of revenue. The first two are visible from the dispatch screen. The third is usually visible only at month-end, when fuel-card statements arrive and finance starts asking why variance went up. A complete tracking stack pairs a hardened GPS tracker with precision fuel sensors, contactless CAN-bus readers, and a reporting platform that lines every trip up against vehicle, route, driver, and customer order. The same platform produces the inputs every other operational decision depends on: real-time location for dispatch, driver scoring grounded in evidence, per-customer cost recovery in 3PL contracts, audit-grade emissions disclosure, and a trip-evidence pack that closes a driver fuel dispute in hours instead of weeks. Pickups, rigid trucks, articulated combinations, trailers, refrigerated bodies — all covered with one stack.

Industry Challenges

Key challenges we help address

Providing real-time shipment visibility to customers

Reducing empty miles and optimizing backhaul routes

Managing driver hours-of-service and fatigue compliance

Preventing cargo theft during long-haul and cross-border transit

Integrating tracking with TMS and warehouse management systems

Ensuring on-time delivery performance across distributed fleets

Use Cases

Explore specific scenarios and challenges in this industry

Fuel Management & Theft Prevention

Fuel Management & Theft Prevention

Transportation & Logistics

Fuel theft on commercial fleets shows up in three patterns: tank drainage during a stop, underfilling at the refueling point, and fraud against the fuel card or paper voucher. None are visible to the OEM dashboard gauge, and all three look identical to a manual dipstick check the next morning. Closing the gap takes a precision fuel-level sensor in every tank, an in-line flow meter or contactless pump-nozzle reader where trips are short, and a GPS tracker tying every event to vehicle, time, location, and driver. Operators running this approach worldwide typically report fuel-theft incidents reduced to zero and fuel-cost reductions between 15% and 30%. Documented cases include 150 trucks in Mexico, a major bank's standby generator bank in Nigeria, and a 300+ vehicle construction fleet.

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Axle Load & Overload Compliance

Transportation & Logistics

Measure the weight on each axle in real time, and the total vehicle weight behind it — so overload is caught before a roadside inspection catches it, and so loading and unloading events are documented as they happen instead of reconstructed from paperwork the next day. Two sensor families cover the two suspension types found across heavy fleets. Mechanical leaf-spring suspension uses an angle-shift sensor mounted on the rear axle or bogie, reading the deflection of the spring stack as the vehicle is loaded. Pneumatic / air-suspension uses a pressure sensor in the air line, reading the compressed-air pressure that supports the load. Both report to the on-vehicle GPS tracker, which ties weight to time, location, and driver — making the data usable for fine avoidance, unauthorized-cargo detection, suspension maintenance forecasting, and trailer load balancing across the fleet.

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Fuel Consumption Optimization

Transportation & Logistics

Measure what each trip actually burns — not an estimate from distance times a published MPG figure. Three complementary methods cover the operational reality. In-line flow meters report the litres passing through the fuel line, the most accurate option for long-running engines and generators. Fuel-level sensors track tank drawdown over the operating window, the best fit where a flow meter is impractical. Contactless CAN-bus readers extract the engine ECU's own consumption figure where the vehicle exposes it. Each method is right for a different problem. Long-haul trucks lean on flow + level together. Marine engines and standby generators need differential metering — supply line minus return line, because a single in-line meter on the supply side overstates burn by 30 to 60%. Older trucks and special machinery the OEM never wired for telematics get pulse-based metering at the injector or pump nozzle. Operators running this stack worldwide typically report 15-30% fuel-cost reductions on tipper and special-vehicle fleets, and 16% on standby generator banks.

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Fuel Level Monitoring

Transportation & Logistics

Know exactly how much fuel is in every tank, every second of the day. A precision fuel-level sensor sits inside the tank and reports the real level to your GPS tracker with around 1% measurement accuracy and millimetre-level sensitivity to change — independent of the OEM dashboard gauge, which typically reads in quarter-tank steps and cannot tell a refuel from a drain. From that one signal the platform separates three things the dashboard cannot: a legitimate refueling event (a controlled rise at a known time and place), a drainage or siphon (a sharp fall outside the expected pattern), and continuous consumption during operation. Each event is timestamped against location and driver, so fuel data lines up with where the vehicle was and who was responsible. Operators running this approach worldwide typically report meaningful fuel-cost reductions — documented cases include 150 trucks in Mexico (25% fuel-expense decrease) and stationary site tanks up to 300,000 litres where theft was eliminated entirely.

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