Locating trailers. How do they keep up with them?

Computer, but my guess is they don't know where every single one is. Alot of them probably has GPS trackers on them also.

 

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.

 

They send guys out in little horses and buggies to count the 'sheep' every year.

 

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 #

 

What does 'Lot Checker' pay?... maybe I'll apply for that job.

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.

 

Schneider has GPS tracking in their trailers. They can locate them to within 100ft

 

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.

 

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.