Vehicle Management

Passive Vehicle Tracking

What Is Passive Vehicle Tracking?

There are basically two ways that vehicles can be tracked, there is the live vehicle tracking and the passive vehicle tracking. The live vehicle tracking is used in order to track a vehicle in real time in order to find out exactly where that vehicle is at that particular moment.

Passive vehicle tracking is used in order to find out what route a vehicle took and basically an end of the day log about the vehicle wear abouts. A company or individual would have to determine exactly why they wanted the tracking system and what they are going to use it for.

The transportation industry mainly uses the live vehicle tracking instead of the passive vehicle tracking due to the fact that they need to know where their vehicles are, at any given time in case there is a need for going a different route or if they need to know the time that it would take to get to a location from where they are.

The passive vehicle tracking system is usually a one time cost and does not have any type of monthly fees. This system can give a more extensive log on specific routes because it is not updating itself every ten or fifteen minutes like the live vehicle tracking system does. Passive vehicle tracking systems are also used for billing purposes and route verification at the end of the day.

There are different companies that sell the passive vehicle tracking equipment along with several different types of equipment used for the passive vehicle tracking. Most of the equipment that is used for passive vehicle tracking can perform different tasks such as automatic downloads of data onto the passive vehicle tracking software that usually comes with the device.

The passive vehicle tracking systems can also give ignition reports, PTO reporting, car monitoring, fuel saving info, and the passive vehicle tracking device can automatically record and track the vehicles every movement. Most of the devices have anywhere from 512k up to 1MB of memory which allows the device to save all of the information for 50 hours of drive time up to 300 hours of drive time.

Also, if the passive vehicle tracking device does not come with its own software for downloading the data, most of the systems are compatible with the software packages that you can purchase separately.

The benefits of the passive vehicle tracking system can help a company to review their start and stop time, speed control, lower fuel expenses, lower maintenance costs, lower insurance rates, have accurate billing information, and monitor their drivers with the customers. These are very important factors for the company so the passive vehicle tracking system is well worth the investment.

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