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AVL Fleet Tracking

Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Fleet Tracking

AVL is often used interchangeably with other industry terms – GPS tracking, fleet tracking, satellite tracking, vehicle tracking, asset tracking, cargo tracking and mobile resource management. Call it what you will, AVL technology and systems are important management tools in the freight transportation industry in North America and around the world.

Safefreight's AVL tracking software - SmartFleet® Manager helps keep you in tune with your fleet. SmartFleet® Manager also serves as AVL recovery software that helps you locate and recover lost or stolen assets.

Track Your Assets in Transit

Automatic vehicle location GPS and wireless communications technology working together. Safefreight’s AVL vehicle unit - EnCompass™ - contains a wireless GPS receiver that receives signals from orbiting satellites.

Location information is transmitted by wireless communication (either satellite or cellular) to a network operations terminal and made available to fleet managers and dispatchers through our SmartFleet® Manager software application. This system supplies data that is invaluable for business decisions related to vehicle and fleet management.

Advanced Tracking Technology

SmartFleet® Manager is Safefreight's AVL tracking software that can provide precise information about location, speed, direction, mileage, hours accumulated, and start & stop information on personal vehicles or any asset in your fleet. Other advanced features include external sensor data, panic mode reporting and whether a trailer is tethered or untethered.

Standard or customized reports can be used for carrying out preventative maintenance, analyzing a driver’s history, ensuring compliance with fleet standards and rules, locating vehicles and mapping routes & other business objectives related to fleet and vehicle management.

Stay connected at all times with dual-mode communications

Safefreight has combined the power of wireless communications with GPS location awareness to deliver a leading-edge platform for tracking your mobile assets. With dual-mode communication capabilities, you can stay connected with your assets at all times.

Safefreight offers a complete suite of cellular and satellite communication platforms so that you can choose the coverage, capacity and frequency that best meets your business objectives.

Through Safefreight's proprietary technology, dual-mode capability allows you to combine terrestrial and satellite communications that automatically selects the optimal network to give you the coverage you need at the lowest price. Get the information you need in real time 24/7.