GPS tracking
Stop guessing where your trucks and units are
Plug-in trackers for your trucks. Battery tags for your units. Both report into the same PortaPro records you already bill from, so location is an answer, not another login.
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Deep dive
Two devices, because a truck and a restroom are not the same problem
Real time and multi-year battery life are mutually exclusive, and most tracking products pretend otherwise. A truck has power, so its tracker uses it: plug the device into the OBD-II port under the dash and it reports every couple of minutes while the ignition is on, along with odometer and fuel on supported models. A portable unit has no power at all, so its tag runs on a battery, wakes when the unit moves, and reports a few times a day. That is what buys 5 to 7 years instead of a dead device by spring.
So PortaPro sells two devices and keeps them visibly apart, right down to the ordering screen. What you get from the unit tag is not a dot moving across a map. It is the events that matter: this unit left the yard, this unit arrived on site, this unit moved when nothing was scheduled, this tag is about to go flat. What you get from the truck tracker is the trail, the trip, and the arrival time.
Both land on the records you already run the business from. The truck's location lives on its Fleet Management profile next to its maintenance and compliance. The unit's last known position lives on the unit, next to its placement pin, its service history, and the customer it is rented to. Nothing here is a separate tracking product bolted on beside PortaPro.
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How it works
Order it, plug it in, and stop making phone calls to find things
There is no install crew and no separate tracking account to keep. The hardware arrives already tied to your PortaPro workspace.
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Put the right device on the right thing
Order both kinds from one screen. For trucks, PortaPro checks each vehicle in your fleet against the OBD-II compatibility list before it sells you anything, so a tracker that cannot physically plug into that truck never ships. For units, you pick a quantity and say which unit each tag goes on when it arrives. Already running Samsara on some trucks? Connect it read-only and those vehicles join the same fleet.
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It reports itself
No install appointment and no configuration. A truck tracker starts sending location every couple of minutes once the ignition is on, plus odometer and fuel on supported models. A unit tag wakes when the unit moves and sends a location, a few times a day at most, which is what buys it years of battery instead of weeks.
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You get told, instead of going to look
PortaPro draws a zone around every yard and every service location automatically, so the events start the day the first device reports. Left the yard, arrived on site, returned to yard. A tag that moves while it should be parked raises a theft alert. A battery under 20 percent and a device that has gone quiet both surface before they cost you a stop.
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Records that check themselves
When the tag and the paperwork disagree, you hear about it
A tracked unit knows where it actually is, and PortaPro knows where your records say it is. When those drift apart, the unit's profile says so in plain language and offers to move the placement pin to the tracker, or to flag it for the next driver out there. That is the difference between a map and a system of record: this one tells you the paperwork is wrong.
It also answers the billing question. A unit that has been GPS-verified on site for 56 days is 56 days you can stand behind when a customer disputes the cycle.
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Every tagged unit
One list that answers: is everything where we think it is?
Each tracked unit with its tag, its last report, and its battery, plus a location check that tells you at a glance whether any of them disagree with their status.
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Trip history
“Your driver never showed”
Pick a day and the tracker's raw positions come back as trips, not a wall of coordinates: when the truck left, when it stopped, how far it went, how long it idled, and the fastest it went. Tap a trip and it draws on the map above it.
That is usually the whole conversation. It is also how the payroll question gets settled without anyone relitigating a timesheet, and the weekly report exports the same numbers as CSV when you want them per truck.
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Common questions
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A unit you cannot find is a unit you cannot bill.
Trackers for the trucks, tags for the units, both inside PortaPro.
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