Can anyone recommend a vehicle tracking system through personal experience? We have a small fleet of 7 vans which travel nationwide and occasionally northern Europe. Trying to find a cost effective system that gives me speeds at various times, journey routes and times of travel etc. The problems we have come across are unauthorised use, speeding, leaving jobs early. (and of this sound familiar?) Have been looking at various systems, at various costs and various benefits. Now my head hurts.... I always try and go for personal recommendations on this kind of thing anyway. I want to incorporate this into a training and incentive programme looking at road safety , speed awareness and quality working. It's not all stick! There will be some carrot too lol.

We use this system on all our vehicles - will give you everything what you are looking for, no idea what it is like on price though! http://www.isotrak.com/

Try traffic master, Not sure if they can do everything you require but worth a look.

As an aside forum users may recall reading about a successful prosecution during August of an asbestos analyst and a supervisor of an asbestos removal contractor who colluded to produce a false clearance certificate for asbestos removal work at a school in Oxfordshire. Online summaries about the case (as at http://www.constructione...er-school-clear-up-work/ ) mention that records from GPS tracking of the analyst’s company van showed that the analyst went to a motorway service station (to meet the supervisor and concoct the certificate) but did not go to the school. Two days later another contractor visited the school and found that the asbestos removal work had evidently not been completed. The above scenario prompts two questions as follows: Did the analyst know before the HSE investigation that his employer could track the van’s movements? If he did know, did he think (wrongly) that nobody would question the validity of the false certificate he signed and therefore nobody would check where he went? Although we’ll probably never know for certain about the analyst’s thinking, it seems prudent for employers generally to tell users of company vehicles if they’re fitted with tracking devices, and additionally what sort of information and in what detail is available from the tracking.

Lots of food for thought! Thanks everyone

Quite possibly his activities led to covert use of the device. One large s/mart has the devices installed in their fleet to encourage the drivers to stick to their PREPLANNED routes. My sons fleet van has tracker installed to halt non-work use of the vans, since their use for anything except company use would lead to insurance "problems". As for benefits, fuel use is lowered in the case of vans/cars by preventing "private" use. Fuel fiddles in trucks are harder to prevent, as I witnessed a few weeks ago when I noted one truck filling several containers on a forecourt (he was stopped by the arrival of police, probably notified by attendants watching forecourt cameras ( which are now part of the nationwide ANPR system)) All-in-all the days of theft of/from/by-use-of company vehicles is coming to a slow halt.

Roshgse: We use http://www.masternaut.co.uk/

Hi we use blackboxtelecommunications---no problems