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- 08.18.2012 #1Medium Load Member
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Locating trailers. How do they keep up with them?
How do big fleets keep up with all their trailers? You see trailers in fields, parking lots, and ever other place you can imagine. Just wonder how they could possibly keep up with them all.
- 08.18.2012 #2Road Train Member
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Computer, but my guess is they don't know where every single one is. Alot of them probably has GPS trackers on them also.
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- 08.18.2012 #3Light Load Member
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There is technology that allows fleets to satellite track. They are also tracked through the computer system. Most companies have people on staff that track down trailers and trucks that fall through the cracks. Once in awhile they get lost.
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- 08.18.2012 #4Light Load Member
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They send guys out in little horses and buggies to count the 'sheep' every year.
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- 08.18.2012 #5Medium Load Member
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lol.....wonder how much that job pays?
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- 08.18.2012 #6Heavy Load Member
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Some company's have a reward for "lost" trailers. Some trl do have gps tracking but most don't yet.
I've been asked several times to do a lot check and send in trl #
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- 08.18.2012 #7Light Load Member
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What does 'Lot Checker' pay?... maybe I'll apply for that job. Originally Posted by NYROADIE
I thought that was the yard jockey's job?... next they'll be asking you to fix some flats and change oil on a few trucks for them.
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- 08.18.2012 #8Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O
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Schneider has GPS tracking in their trailers. They can locate them to within 100ft
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If the battery in the GPS isn't dead from sitting for the past 2 years because every driver who came looking for an empty grabbed the newer trailers instead of the old pieces of junk. Originally Posted by SHC
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ONe year husband parked trailer in a lot near where my daughter lived, about 2 miles from us. I was on my way back home from paying an electric bill and here was this big wrecker all the way from Birmingham, AL picking it up and getting ready to take off with it. They said US Xpress, who he worked for then, related that it was stolen and missing for 2 yrs. Here we had just been in Tuscaloosa with it to deliver a load at Sam's Club. Talk about a heart attack; and you know how hard it is to get a call into corporate on a weekend. They finally took our word for it; don't know if US X had to pay for their time and fuel or not. Oh and he had a lock on the front too and that sure didn't stop them from hooking up to it.
I guess someone was trying to make some money on turning it in as abandoned, may have been about $75.00 then. Sure rained on their parade.
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