GPS tracking for portable toilets and trucks
A unit you cannot find is a unit you cannot bill.
Put a tag on the units you can't afford to lose. When one isn't where its pin says, PortaPro tells you, and moves the pin or flags it for the next driver.
Two devices, because a truck and a restroom are not the same problem.
On the truck, a tracker plugs into the OBD-II port and runs on the truck's power. It reports every minute or two while the ignition is on and turns the day into trips. Every truck is checked for fit before you're charged; one we can't confirm is never billed.
On the unit, a battery tag sticks or screws on with no wiring. It reports when the unit moves, plus a daily check-in, so the battery lasts years. Tag what walks off: trailers, ADA units, holding tanks, roll-offs.
Trucks and tagged units, on the map dispatch already uses.
Switch on Vehicles and Tracked Units and they sit beside the day's jobs, the disposal sites, and your territories. Every truck pin says where its position came from: a PortaPro tracker, Samsara, Geotab, Motive, Verizon Connect, or a driver's phone.
Already pay for fleet GPS? Connect Samsara, Geotab, Motive, or Verizon Connect with read-only access and your trucks show up here without new hardware. PortaPro matches them to your trucks by plate, then VIN, and never writes anything back.
A tagged unit shows its last position, not a moving dot. Tag a tenth of the fleet and the map still reads right. Untagged units carry on the way they always have.
You get told, instead of going out to look.
PortaPro draws a fence around every yard and customer site on its own. A unit that moves when nothing is scheduled sends a push to dispatch. The rest stamps the record quietly.
- Moved when it should be parked
- Left the yard, arrived on site
- Battery low, device quiet
“Your driver never showed.”
When the truck crosses the fence around the job's address, the job is stamped GPS verified on site with the arrival and departure times. It prints on the invoice and the service report, and it's there even if the driver forgot to tap Arrived. It is on the proof-of-service page the customer opens from the completion notice too, and it is the clock Job & Route Profitability prefers when it counts a job's driver labor.
Tagged units get the same treatment: a verified delivery date and a verified pickup date, so days on site is the tracker's number, not anyone's memory.
The small jobs the trackers do on their own.
Each one runs off data the trackers already send. Odometer and fuel readings depend on the truck; the fit check says which trucks publish them.
- Service on real miles
- A tracker that reads the odometer keeps the truck's mileage current, and the shop is warned 500 miles before a mileage-based service comes due.
- Fuel gone while parked
- A truck that loses 15% or more of its fuel without moving sends dispatch a push. Worth a look for a leak or a siphon.
- Speed and custom zones
- Pick a speed and hear when a truck passes it, at most once an hour. Name a place, like a festival site or a restricted lot, give it a radius, and hear when anything tracked goes in or out.
- The yard check
- Inventory flags a unit marked on rent whose tag is sitting in your yard, and a unit marked available whose tag is at no yard at all.
- The weekly report
- Per truck: trips, miles, driving time, and idle time. Per tagged unit: the site, the verified delivery and pickup dates, and days on site. Download it as a CSV.
Questions operators ask
Do I have to put a tag on every unit?
No, and most operators shouldn't. Tag what walks off or what you can't afford to lose: trailers, ADA units, holding tanks, roll-offs. Untagged units work exactly as they do today, and the map and the lists don't look broken when only some are tagged.
Do drivers know they're being tracked?
Yes, by design. Turning on tracking requires acknowledging that drivers have been notified, and PortaPro records who accepted and when. Drivers see a tracking-status card in their app. PortaPro does not score drivers.
We already run Samsara, Geotab, Motive, or Verizon Connect. Do we have to replace it?
No. Connect it with read-only access (a Samsara API token, a view-only Geotab login, a Motive API key, or the Reveal API credentials Verizon Connect emails you) and your trucks appear on the PortaPro map. Nothing is written back, and your provider keeps running everything else you use it for. Other professional fleet trackers can often be pointed at PortaPro too, and then you pay only the monthly service. Send us the make, model, and IMEI and we'll tell you.
What does it cost, and how long is history kept?
GPS Tracking is included on the Growth plan and above. Devices are ordered inside PortaPro, arrive set up for your account, and each one starts billing the day it sends its first location. Current device prices are on the hardware pages. Raw positions are kept for 90 days; which device sat on which truck or unit is kept for good.
See a unit that wandered off, and the pin that follows it.
14-day free trial (card required, no charge today). Or a guided 30 to 60 day trial with no card.
