Testimonials

Grammer Industries, Inc. was looking for a way to relieve our drivers of the painstaking task of writing down their mileage as they crossed state lines at all times of the day and during a wide range of traffic flow in an effort to keep accurate records for IFTA Taxes and IRP Mileage Reporting.

"We discovered Turnpike Global Technologies and began our investigation into how Turnpike's system would fit our needs. Turnpike offered a trial period and worked with us in some tricky tri-state areas for GPS accuracy. During this trial period, we accomplished a 0.5% (0.005) accuracy efficiency, with still a few small areas to work on. We began in full bore with Turnpike during September 2006. In April 2007, we underwent a Kentucky fuel tax audit. Our Turnpike figures were within 0.0004 accuracy of Kentucky's figures. At the end of September 2007, our odometer readings compared to our Turnpike readings (GPS positioning) were within 0.0007 of each other (over an approximate 2.6 million mile distance traveled). I had a problem with our system during August 2007, where a small amount of miles had to be estimated over a 10 day time period, which could be the reason for the majority of this discrepancy."

"When you take into consideration the wear on tires and the accuracy of the tractor odometer readings, I feel that this is tremendous accuracy. The use of Turnpike's reporting procedures and transfer of fuel purchases through our fuel vendors has allowed us to enjoy a tremendous reduction in our manpower for reporting and record keeping purposes. The most important part lies with driver satisfaction in no longer having to fill out mileage reports."

"Thank-you for working with us."

“Before we implemented RouteTracker, we had no way of knowing what drivers were really doing,” says Smith. “We needed good information in order to provide good feedback and coaching.”

“Now, I feel like I am sitting beside every driver every day. At 7:00 a.m. each morning, I see a report on the whole fleet over the past 24 hours. We really focus on three things: speed, hard braking and idle time. Every driver has a scorecard. The System enables us to see his or her speed history, a count of hard braking incidents and a location map of where they occurred, and idle time. Our idle time has gone from an average of eight hours per day to 30 minutes per day. (We don't permit idling because the company provides Espar heaters or Thermo King Tri-Pac APUs.)”

“I feel like any carrier who does not take advantage of this technology is missing a big opportunity to improve their operation,” Smith offers. “It is a small investment for what you can achieve. It has helped us to improve our drivers' performance, and it is helping us achieve our goal of becoming the safest fleet in Canada”

“Since the installation of Turnpike's GPS system in our tractor trailers we have been able to analyze speed of our trucks and make adjustments to governor the speed. We track hard braking to assist in who may need some additional training on braking and/or who may be driving in an unsafe manner. We also have started analyzing length of stops and route driven to stops. We are excited about the potential of the information this system will give us.”

“Pariso Trucking has used the Turnpike system since April of 2006. We have greatly reduced the idling of our trucks. We have noticed a large savings in our fuel costs due to the Turnpike system. The trucks are driven in a more efficient manner do to the Vehicle Scorecard which grades each truck every day. Other benefits include tracking our drivers stops including when they exit and enter our terminal. We also use the mapping feature to track more efficient routing.”

“Since the Route Tracker has been installed in my fleet I’ve seen productivity increase and my operational costs go down by being able to track how and where each vehicle is being driven. The Route Tracker has also eliminated all of the paper work when it comes to Fuel Tax reporting. I would recommend the Route Tracker to any trucking company.”

“After researching the entire GPS market available today, I believe that Turnpike’s RouteTracker is hands down the most beneficial to any trucking company. We have seen driver productivity increase dramatically.”

‘‘We needed to find a low-cost, user-friendly, method of tracking and monitoring our drivers and equipment—one that would keep abreast of changing technology and not be continually coming to us for costly system upgrades,"